I have now been in Barcelona for just over a month. Well, maybe not Barcelona, more like Europe. In the first three weeks I was traveling to Brussels on a weekly basis for business purposes. Thankfully, that has now come to an end and I can settle into our new apartment. Mind you, the selection of beers in Belgium certainly has no equal. I tried my best to taste as many as possible. Sometimes to my downfall, or is that fall down? I can't quite remember......
I moved into our apartment a week and a half ago. A very bare apartment. Even the light fittings had been removed. I believe this is common practice in Spain? The first thing to be done is to organized furniture. I am currently sleeping on a blow-up mattress, sitting in camping chairs, have a cardboard box as a coffee table and a cooler box as a fridge. Shit! I sound like a squatter! This weekend's task is to have our apartment filled with all the essential bits and pieces to make life a lot more comfortable. A shopping extravaganza is about to take place!
My Spanish lessons started last night. This is going to be one interesting experience. So far it has been a lot of fun with a good few laughs while the three of us in the class come to grips with the Spanish pronunciation. This can be tricky at times. Did you know, that if pronounced incorrectly, the word:"Años", meaning years, has a very different meaning. I'll leave that one to the imagination!
Enough for now. I'll write some more later.
Cheers.
