Partner Alcarria Guadalajara

... terme ou les jours de pluie, mais j'ai pris mon couteau suisse et j'ai percu l'endroit de ma chaussure ou mon orteil frottait. Ne vous inquietez pas, la chaussure n'etait plus dans mon pied. Je ne l'ai fait qu'avec la droite car la gauche n'etait pas ausse pire. Je suis ensuite reparti. Bien que je ne peux pas dire que c'etait parfait, c'etait tout de meme pas mal mieux! J'ai marche les 12 km en 3 heures et j'etais arrive a Villafranca... Il n'etait que ...

... the day that I left Phoenix, I am soaking up this great weather!! After we got settled into our rooms Kelli and I made friends with one of our neighbors, Danielle, and we all ventured out into las calles (the streets) surrounding our dorm in hopes of finding comida y el supermercado. We found a great place called VIPS that is a small supermarket type store with food, books, movies, beverages and snacks that also has a restaurant ...

... with them. Cristina taaught us many words, all of which I have now forgotten, but we had a good time listening to her explain them all. Patricia and Cristina ordered us classical spanish food and drink; Tortillas de patata, papas fritas and vino tinto. (Spanish tortillas are like a potato sufle, papas fritas are french fries, and vino tinto is red wine.) The vino tinto is also called lengua negra because it turns your tongue ...

... making it extremely difficult to get around, and extremely easy to get lost as we were advised. We also visited a church, Santo Tomé, where a miracle took place. It was really nice to have a guide who could tell us the entire story. In the church is one of El Greco's masterpieces depicting the miracle, of which the tour guide was able to explain all of the details. It is an amazingly complex painting and very interesting ...

My heart is broken... My dog passed away today. Goodbye my dearest Candie, I will always always love you. November 14th, 1994 - October 22nd, 2007 The past few years had been rough for her, an inoperable liver tumor in 2005, and congestive heart failure this February. Amazingly, with medication, she was able to bounce back. But the time came when she just couldn't handle it any more and her other ...

... or two of appetizers ('tapas'). Popular tapas includes seafood and the many types of cured ham. We ate at a popular tapas bar in Madrid called 'Maison de Jamon' (House of Ham) which contained (and no exaggeration here) hundreds and hundreds of legs of cured ham hanging from the wall and ceiling. At the deli counter there were many types of jamon for sale - sweet ham, salty ham, spicy ham and ham so cured it emitted a very strong ...

El Escorial is a Montessori in the mountains north of Madrid. The story I got was that it was built by the king about 400 years ago. Then Monks lived there and sang songs all day but didn't talk. And they lived there for along time. Now it is a museum and was a ...

... s Central Park-esque, central park because it was so damn hot during the day (mid 90s at least) and everything is closed for three hours for siesta. One thing that is open, though, are museums, so I actually went to my first museums in a long while. The Prado, Spain´s primary museum for classic works has a lot of Velasquez, El Greco, Rubens and Goya. Eh, although I was glad to see Velasquez´ original Las Meninas because I have seen so many of Picasso and Dali´s deconstructions of ...

... get rich in nanoseconds schemes figured high on my "must bump into" list) and/or job offers along the way, but of course that didn't happen. I didn't really look that hard to be honest. So when I got the job offer back in December, I mainly accepted because of the following; - The job is in Spain. I have been keen on trying to live in a Spanish speaking country for a while, and hence get the opportunity to learn much more Spanish. - I figured it would be ...

... to paper work you really cannot tell for sure. So that's it. All my trip preparations are done, and as soon as all these minor holdbacks are taken care of, I will grab the first flight to Istambul where my travels will start. Cheers, -HECTOR- Madrid (Spain), february 2004.