This was an unusual Christmas. For a start, this is the first year that I have not spent Christmas with my family - either with my parents or my children. It was just me and Andrew.
All in Living Abroad
This was an unusual Christmas. For a start, this is the first year that I have not spent Christmas with my family - either with my parents or my children. It was just me and Andrew.
It's Christmas Eve and we thought that we would record a festive message for friends and family.
The 1st October, our first day at Casa Magdalena, seems a long time ago. So, what have the first two months been like and what were the highs and lows? Find out by listening to our first podcast...
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...
