There have been a few difficulties this week. On Saturday, I received an email from one of my brothers informing me that Mum had been taken to hospital following a fall at home...
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There have been a few difficulties this week. On Saturday, I received an email from one of my brothers informing me that Mum had been taken to hospital following a fall at home...
Yesterday evening, just as we were settling down in front of the fire - voomph! - the house went dark: a power cut.
It has been a busy old week, and I am not quite sure where the time has gone. We are in the middle of our three-week run at school, and had friends to stay at the weekend, its all been rather hectic, so where to begin?
This week has been really tough. We have recently been studying three past tenses in Spanish and combining these proved a little too much for us...
Truth be told, it doesn’t take much for me to get frustrated, but yesterday was a bad day; the wind must have been blowing from the wrong direction...
OK, that may not sound that thrilling, but we bought a whole jamón from the highest village in southern Spain where it is cured and air-dried...
Whenever you move anywhere new, it is important to feel that you belong...
We have been here over a month now and I wanted to try to explain what it’s really like for us...
For any of our blog readers who may be getting fed up with endless glimpses of La Vida Loca as provided through our writing, we just wanted to reassure you that life is not all sunshine here...
Today was the day we planned to get our applications sorted for our NIEs, or Número de Identidad de Extranjero: a tax identification number for foreigners, basically.