Fiestas!
Hola mis amigos!
It's been a long time. So I thought that enjoying yerself would be a good subject.
When the Spanish do it, they do it big:
This is them cooking soup on the beach at Bolneuvo. Can't remember the capacity of the cauldron but we think it was 600 litres of soup. Wadderyer estimate? Here's a close-up of the vat courtesy of my friend Chris:
Note the lovely beach and the Med in the background.
Next up are Terry & me and Chris & Bev. They will be in England and we shall be Ireland for Christmas. So we celebrated Thanksgiving together instead. Bit of a funny mixture of USA and Spanish traditions, but we (That's the royal 'we', it was Chris & Bev really.) spit-roasted a piglet - with all the trimmings, and then some.
Here's pic of all five of us, and . . .
Here's one of the victim. Yumm!
And Bev, Terry and I nearly didn't get any!
Oh 'eck, it's one long round. Today we had another party with my Spanish teacher, Pilar Garcia, and all of us students and, later, her family.
The Spanish is progressing, I suppose, but days like today are invaluable. Pilar will probably never know how much we appreciated today's PARTY and meeting her crazy brothers, unless, of course, she reads this.
And our companions - forgive me if I don't mention EVERYONE - Alex & Kevin, Janet & Andrea, the other Janet and her son, Pilar's & Alex's tennis coach (how did he get in there¿), Marina, naturally . . . well at some point we were discussing, shall I say rude, colloquial or NORMAL Spanish and English? And I have to say I can't remember everyonyone else right now, so, 'sod it', it was a special day and thank you, to everyone for your company!
After lovely tapas, lovely wine and lovely ('lovely' is Pilar's favourite adjective in English, you see) 'gintonic' and then an energetic ride home for us two on our bikes, I regale (hey, the linguistics anorak in me is still there, they're cognative!!! regale=regalar!!!) you with a pic of the motley crew we were with today:
Ain't they lovely? Can't sign off without saying gracias to Aunti Tita.
It's been a long time. So I thought that enjoying yerself would be a good subject.
When the Spanish do it, they do it big:
This is them cooking soup on the beach at Bolneuvo. Can't remember the capacity of the cauldron but we think it was 600 litres of soup. Wadderyer estimate? Here's a close-up of the vat courtesy of my friend Chris:
Note the lovely beach and the Med in the background.
Next up are Terry & me and Chris & Bev. They will be in England and we shall be Ireland for Christmas. So we celebrated Thanksgiving together instead. Bit of a funny mixture of USA and Spanish traditions, but we (That's the royal 'we', it was Chris & Bev really.) spit-roasted a piglet - with all the trimmings, and then some.
Here's pic of all five of us, and . . .
Here's one of the victim. Yumm!
And Bev, Terry and I nearly didn't get any!
Oh 'eck, it's one long round. Today we had another party with my Spanish teacher, Pilar Garcia, and all of us students and, later, her family.
The Spanish is progressing, I suppose, but days like today are invaluable. Pilar will probably never know how much we appreciated today's PARTY and meeting her crazy brothers, unless, of course, she reads this.
And our companions - forgive me if I don't mention EVERYONE - Alex & Kevin, Janet & Andrea, the other Janet and her son, Pilar's & Alex's tennis coach (how did he get in there¿), Marina, naturally . . . well at some point we were discussing, shall I say rude, colloquial or NORMAL Spanish and English? And I have to say I can't remember everyonyone else right now, so, 'sod it', it was a special day and thank you, to everyone for your company!
After lovely tapas, lovely wine and lovely ('lovely' is Pilar's favourite adjective in English, you see) 'gintonic' and then an energetic ride home for us two on our bikes, I regale (hey, the linguistics anorak in me is still there, they're cognative!!! regale=regalar!!!) you with a pic of the motley crew we were with today:
Ain't they lovely? Can't sign off without saying gracias to Aunti Tita.
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Friday, December 08, 2006
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