One more sleep in Madrid My bags have been repacked and now I have only a little room left in my carry-on bag, although my big case only weighs about 22 kg - not bad seeing that I am allowed 30kg checked luggage and 7kg carry on. Hopefully because my big case is well under weight they won't worry about my new red carry-on bag. Not a lot of room left - so light stuff from here on. Thank goodness I didn't trust my Spanish translations and I walked back to Es...

Up and packed and ready to transfer to the Ibis. I go to check out of La Tablas and what a lovely surprise - because I was with Vaughan yesterday I only got charged E48 for the room not $69 that I was quoted. That's good - that will pay for the taxi. The taxi driver tells me, in very broken English that he can drive me to the plaza but I will probably have to walk to the hotel. Well that's what I think he is saying. Woops - that was not mentioned in ...

DayTown Whilst I was in Egypt I received an email from Vaughan Systems outlining a one day course to be held in Madrid on the Saturday after we finish VaughanTown. As I didn't have anything confirmed until I fly out on Tuesday night, I volunteered. After-all we were offered a room in a hotel in Madrid for the Friday night, dinner and breakfast and we were lured by the words SPA. At some stage during the week Marissa established that there were eight of u...

And so the week continued. It was a very structured week. Early each day the morning schedule was posted in the lobby and so we knew what we were doing for the morning, and the menu for lunch and dinner the next day was posted and we had to order our three courses. And then at lunch time the afternoon schedule was posted. 9am Breakfast - We had to sit with a mixture of Spaniards and Anglos. Breakfast was delicious with a huge range - fruit juice, c...

Monday My first one-on-one is cancelled as the Spaniard has decided to pull out of the course. He feels that his English in not good enough and he can't understand any of the Anglos, although he talked with us at lunch yesterday. So I have 1 hour free time. My second session was with a delightful young young lass and again I am totally gobsmacked with the things this young lass talks to me about. she is a university student and after Christmas she is goi...