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Estoy en Madrid
I´m on a very expensive internet terminal with the worst keyoad in thehistory of the world, so this will be a ery short entry justto say the convention was great, i´m exhauted, and Ithnk i´mgetting a cold (arrrghhhh I hate this keyboard!). Leavng for Bilbao in acouple of hours.
Counting down….
It’s the first of February, so that means TWO MONTHS UNTIL AMERICA!!!. It’s suddenly starting to seem very real (and very close – I was thinking of it as being ages away, and suddenly it’s not!!!). And very exciting! We’re still tweaking the itinerary (silly Skyring gave me a guidebook to read – bad move,…
From my travel journal: Friday 1 April 2011, late
Dinner at Fisherman’s Wharf, in a bakery’s restaurant. I had a crab and corn bisque in a sourdough breadbowl, which seemed like a good way to combine trying some seafood (well, you have to at a place called Fisherman’s Wharf!) with trying some bread (it’s a bakery!). Exciting plans for tomorrow, involving sealions, cable cars,…
All the eights
8/8/08 today, so of course I had to release 8 books at 8 am (well, around 8 am – actually I released them between about 7.45 and 8.30 on my way to work, but releasing all 8 on the dot of 8 would have been a bit impractical): David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Surfacing by…
Busy busy busy
I seem to have way too much of a social life at the moment – it was another week of being out almost every night. Tuesday was Chick Flicks night: Le fils de l’épicier (The Grocer’s Son) – a very French film (slow, philosophical, not much happening, but incredibly atmospheric). We saw it at the…
The best laid plans…
…tend to gang agley due to the lure of a lazy weekend, or they do in my life, anyway. I had all these good intentions of spending the weekend working on my linguistics essay, preparing Wednesday’s ESOL lesson so I don’t have to do it at the last minute, testing out my new secret super-powers…