If you are out for lunch and the opposite companions are looking right over your head instead of straight at your face, chances are big they are watching television. Lots of cafes and restaurants have blaring televisions. And if you are in full sight of one it’s hard to resist watching. Especially since they are … Read more
As a feminist, I have a hard time with the Spanish language. A group of boys is addressed as chicos, a group of girls as chicas. But as soon as there is just ONE boy in this latter group it is chicos again. It gets really funny if you eardrop a group of women like … Read more
A week after my former visit the Apple store is still as busy as ever. But my visits paid off: my laptop is fixed, woot woot! It turns out the keyboard is fixed to the top, so also the top is new. 🙂 ^hm
The week before I left the Netherlands my computer loudspeaker failed. There are hardly any apple stores in the Netherlands with their own repair department, so in the short time I had left, it was not possible to get it fixed then. During our stay here in Spain, we weren’t in the neighborhood of an … Read more
The sun is doing its best and if you see those snowy mountains north of Madrid and LeganĂ©s you can understand why the wind stays cold. We are lucky: the playground is in between big apartment buildings, and out of the wind the weather is gorgeous. So the children can play outside all day today! … Read more
Here in LeganĂ©s, there are many fountains. On roundabouts and on squares. When the sun is low, the image of light and shadow is beautiful. There is one thing I don’t get. I haven’t been able to figure it out yet. Why are the fountains not working between 2 pm and 5 pm? Do the … Read more
March had the theme ‘Animals’ for the grandchildren so we decided to go to the Madrid Zoo this weekend. We were very lucky to have chosen Sunday because the weather was sunny. Cold, but sunny. The kids were out of their heads with excitement, running around and hardly giving themselves any time to have a … Read more
Despite the cold, and maybe because of all the rain, there are a lot of blossoming trees in the area where our son lives. Beautiful to look at. We were not sure about the smell though, because the air around us watching those trees was really foul. It turned out that the lawns are fertilized … Read more
Another town means looking for another hairdresser. For me, that is, because Tom is cut almost bold by myself with a hair clipper. Often I am amazed by the prizes here in Spain. I have paid mostly between €15 and €25 for the hairdresser. This time it was €9, so I was looking at her … Read more
Today we went back to the family in LeganĂ©s. The temperatures varied from 0°C to 20°C, although both those extremes were very temporary. Most of the time it was right in between, making our hike in the Tablas de Daimiel which we visited again nice. The reason to visit the Tablas again was simple. We … Read more