The ‘official’ title of the twelfth topic of the 30 Days Blogging Challenge is “Somewhere you’d like to move or visit.”. I’ve very much decided to go with the “move” options because for years I have been harbouring desires to one day move to a different country. Well, two different countries in fact which are – as you will shortly discover – really quite different. Realistically I don’t see us upping sticks and heading off to foreign lands in the …
Tag: Spain
I’ll confess now that I thought this Blogging Challenge would be quick way of getting some more blog content. But I was wrong. It’s really making me use my brain to answer some of these and looking forward they only get more challenging. Plans, goals and dreams is quite tough. I’ve always had aims but never strict plans. Also, there are a few things which I will always keep private, even from the blogging community. Sorry! However, there are things …
As mentioned in a previous post, we recently went to stay with a friend in Paris. She moved out there just over a year ago and it was interesting to see how she had settled in. Unlike some of my other friends who live abroad in foreign speaking countries, she did not do a language degree or year abroad, so this was her first experience of living outside of the UK. Whilst we were there, we were routinely online using …
So my week long silence on this occasion is due to the fact that Sam and I have been on holday to Madrid! We got back yesterday and had a great time; just what we needed. We rented an apartment in the centre of town which was most convenient. It had kitchen facilities, a DVD player and some (variable) WiFi so we could keep online a little (although FaceBook was forbidden…). The only slight downside was a rather interesting sofa …
Walking home today, I realised that there is never enough time to do everything I want to do. The reason I thought of that is I overheard someone talking Spanish somewhere on my way to Kings Cross. I never practice my Spanish these days; not, in fact, since I finished my course in June last year. It always feels a bit like a fruitless exercise when I rarely go there. In some ways, trying to keep it up whilst here …
