Sunday 27 March - Monday 4 April

didn't have a chance to update the blog for just over a week, so here's a brief update:

Sun 27/3
Essay, essay, essay.  Finished.  Hooray

Mon 28/3
Intake, print off essay - last minute proofread, post £5.50, home, sleep.

Tue 29/3
lunch uptown with Dutch friends who've moved to London from jakarta.  Excellent meal at Cadogan Arms in the King's Road with a 50% voucher makes it a reasonable price.  bought sunglasses for little Dulcie in Peter Jones

Wed 30/3
ryanair to reus.  disappointingly everything went very smoothly!  After all the horror stories, nothing actually went wrong and our flight was 30 minutes early.  To be fair though, there is the potential for masses of problems - charge of £40 if you don't print off your own boarding card, fascist implementation of size and weight limits, but we were very good and did everything we were told.  Actually had 3 seats between the 2 of us, so plenty of room.  Ange met us at the airport and we zoomed back to her farmhouse on top of a mountain.  Met the 5 dogs, 2 cats and of course Emma and Dulcie.

Thu 31/3
Birthday!  Spoilt rotten, lazy day and then out for dinner.  First restaurant closed but motored on and found another one.  Had pink cava, pate, salt cod and leche frita (fried milk)  could never recommend my pud - it was awful, but luckily came with vanilla ice cream so that was ok.

Fri 1/4
Off to Miravets to see the 12thC Knights Templar castle, beautiful river, lunch on the town square, Selecta beer (mm), bocadillos (sandwiches) and cortado (small milky coffees).  Him Indoors cooked a curry.  Lovely day.

Sat 2/4
Remembered to send my nephew a text wishing him happy birthday.  Lazy day in the sun, around 30C.

Sun 3/4
Market at Hospitalet, then lunch at the restaurant that was closed on the 31st.  Buffet of seafood, kebabs, paella, hams, cheese, desserts and freeflow muscatel.  Yum.

Mon 4/4
Drove over to Emma's house, then beers and tapas on the town square, home, showers, bite to eat, pack, to airport.  Flight arrived early again (that must be how they have the best on-time statistics in Europe).  Boarded at the back again and got 3 seats for the 2 of us.  On arrival went through the automated passport control for the first time ever - took longer than the IOs doing it personally.  Blackwall Tunnel was closed so we had a magical mystery tour through bits of north London before managing to cross the river at London Bridge.  Home by midnight.  Lovely holiday.