Like a true Englishman

I went around the job fair today looking for free pens, a popular trend here is sweets, so you can have a sucky BT sweet or a chewy Deloitte sweet or whatever. Anyway, there were plenty of pens as well. After lots of faffing with printers I managed to make a CV to give to the BT women as well.

Bicycle Race

Last week there was a big bicycle race round Villaviciosa de Odon. For the occasion I borrowed a very fancy camera to try out but the results were more blurry than with my cheap one. Probably need more practice.

When the penny drops

So, this morning I decided to go watch Battleship Potempkin at the Tyssen Museum, I timed it perfectly and arrived at exactly 12:00, but there was only 20 minutes of the film left. I asked the person why the film started early had changed and se said ‘it changed last night.’ This afternoon I planned to meet someone to play table tennis they arrived an hour early and I thought nothing of it. Sweaty after playing table tennis I decided to go to the gym. Only the gym was closed and the people outside said the opening times had changed for the summer. Feeling defeated I had a nap and then went to dinner. Only, dinner had finished. I went and chatted to people eating Pizza on another floor and explained the situation, only then did someone show me their watch… That’s a penny, dropping

Muy Rico

The other day I went to a Mexican Fiesta, the Mexican food was great for vegetarians! It was amazing to see so many Mexicans in one house as well!

Prima Vera

I think it’s fair to say Spring has arrived here.

Retiro Park

A while back, I went to Retiro Park, there were loads of young people there and a whole line of drummers, it’s an old outdoor auditorium so the sound travels very well, when I get my act together I’ll post some sounds from my Minidisc Recorder.

Dance Dance Revolution

Here’s a little video of my amigo clearing the last level of a Dance Dance Revolution type game in a arcade in Madrid!

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Follow me around (the earth)

I’ve uploaded some images of Villaviciosa de Odon for for the Geotagging Project I mentioned a while back. So now you can import my pictures into Google Earth!

Los Oscars

Last night I watched most of ‘los oscars’ in the cinema here. The categories I was interested in went the way I wanted:

Rachel Weizz won for the Constant Gardiner
Nick Park and Steve Box won for Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Wererabbit

The solo Spanish Nominee for the original score for Constant Gardiner didn’t win.
I went to sleep about 4:15 though feeling very tired, I regret it this morning though, now I feel very lively. I woke up thinking that I really should watch Crash on DVD!

Band!

Amongst other things the residents here are lucky enough to have a practice room in which they can make lots of noise, the other day I saw a little concerts where they showed the fruits of their labour, I learnt that Spanish bands are pretty much like English ones (i.e. they play covers of Oasis songs)