26th August
Today was a bit of a funny one. We started the day off worrying about what time we were being picked up. So we decided to drop Abilio a text. He didn't reply so we went to the bus stop at 12:15 like we thought originally, turns out we were wrong. We got a phone call saying he was the at 11:15 and we wasn't, oops! No problem tho as it is down for us to work at 4:30 anyway. We arranged good old santos to run us in then.
With our spare time we decided to wash our clothes for the 3rd but couldn't work out how to get the washer going as the previous times we had done the wash we had just fluked it and pressed loads of buttons. Mar, the owner, was in doing some house work so we asked her. She came to help only to see we had one of her blue towels in with our white wash. Oops again. So she sorted that out for us explaining how to do a wash as if we didn't already know (Lee didn't know but then again Sarah put a blue towel in so maybe she didn't know either )
We got into work and had a laugh about the whole confusion thing before we got taken into peñafiel for tea at las claras. We did work in between though. We got to las claras but food wasn't on until 9 so we had a few drinks and some pinchos to put us on. We got our tea and asked if we change the big jug of red wine included for a vodka and coke and a Malibu and lemonade, very Spanish of us.
We got home and thought we would carry on drinking as we had really got drunk the whole time but then Sarahs tea decided to make a second apperance! She had ate too much, but to be honest at 40€ each we should of had it twice.
This called for bed time! It was our weekend tomorrow which was greatly anticipated.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
24th August
24th August
Today we both were very tired. The long working days were really starting to take its toll on Lee and Sarah. Both agreed they are ready to go home. But only another week wasn't too bad, especially brightened up by the fact they found the perfect spot to catch some rays whilst on there siesta! We were gutted we didn't find it earlier!
We both planned that for the remaining days we would turn our pasty white bodies into tanned golden brown Spanish natives!
Today we both were very tired. The long working days were really starting to take its toll on Lee and Sarah. Both agreed they are ready to go home. But only another week wasn't too bad, especially brightened up by the fact they found the perfect spot to catch some rays whilst on there siesta! We were gutted we didn't find it earlier!
We both planned that for the remaining days we would turn our pasty white bodies into tanned golden brown Spanish natives!
When we arrived home we realised that we had left the mince in the freezer so no spag bol for us! Sarah saved the day by making plenty of her delicious Tuna Tagliatelle which we saved some for our dinner the next day.
23rd August
23rd August
Today was a busy but average day, we started off by finishing the typing up of what we had written down with the now correct words and not the ones we had made up to sound like what the audio guide lady had said.
After we typed up everything we went on a tour to take some pictures that would go with the booklet that we were making.
Lee had more pressing matters on his mind as it was his dreaded night to (attepmt to) cook fajitas! Sarah was very brave to trust Lees cooking. When night rolled around and he got round to cooking, with a few tips and prompts from Sarah, they actually turned out alright.
Success! A celebratory beer was in order! Shame there was none in the fridge.
Today was a busy but average day, we started off by finishing the typing up of what we had written down with the now correct words and not the ones we had made up to sound like what the audio guide lady had said.
After we typed up everything we went on a tour to take some pictures that would go with the booklet that we were making.
Lee had more pressing matters on his mind as it was his dreaded night to (attepmt to) cook fajitas! Sarah was very brave to trust Lees cooking. When night rolled around and he got round to cooking, with a few tips and prompts from Sarah, they actually turned out alright.
Success! A celebratory beer was in order! Shame there was none in the fridge.
22nd August
22nd August
Today we started off typing up our translated version of the castle tour, this was quite difficult as it didn't really make much sense in English so we had to change a lot of it.
After a few hours of typing, we asked Estella (who can speak quite good English) to go over it with us and make sure the information we had changed is correct.
We decided we would try and make it into a small booklet for when English speaking people visit the castle, as the tour is only in Spanish. We sat down and planned what we wanted to do, we agreed that we would take pictures tomorrow and insert them into the booklet.
We then got on to the subject of Football as Barcelona and Real Mardrid were playing tonight.
When work had finished we got a lift to the bus stop, but we decided we wanted to go to the cafe for our tea as we liked it so much last time. We tooked into our food and watched the football and then got Santos (the local taxi man) to take us home.
<<< Surprisingly this didnt make the booklet
Today we started off typing up our translated version of the castle tour, this was quite difficult as it didn't really make much sense in English so we had to change a lot of it.
After a few hours of typing, we asked Estella (who can speak quite good English) to go over it with us and make sure the information we had changed is correct.
We decided we would try and make it into a small booklet for when English speaking people visit the castle, as the tour is only in Spanish. We sat down and planned what we wanted to do, we agreed that we would take pictures tomorrow and insert them into the booklet.
We then got on to the subject of Football as Barcelona and Real Mardrid were playing tonight.
When work had finished we got a lift to the bus stop, but we decided we wanted to go to the cafe for our tea as we liked it so much last time. We tooked into our food and watched the football and then got Santos (the local taxi man) to take us home.
<<< Surprisingly this didnt make the booklet21st August
21st August
Today was our last day off work so we had planned to do nothing apart from sunbathe all day in the back garden, until we got woke up by banging on our front door. Lee answered the door to find it was Javier our work friend.
He decided he was taking us to Valladolid for a Chinese, I had only just got out of bed so had to get ready really quite which was quite difficult, I ran down stairs with no make up or hair done and jumped into the car.
When we arrived in Valladolid we got a guided tour of the town centre, it was very warm, but we enjoyed looking round at the old building which he was showing us. Then he took us to a bar and ordered us some potatoe bravas and 3 small beers, Although I don't drink beer I didn't want to look ungrateful so I slowly drank the beer and when Javier wasn't looking passed it over to Lee so he could finish it off.
Then we set off to try and find a Chinese restaurant, we walked all around the town to find it was closed then we set off to find another one, we found it around 10 minutes later but this one had been shut down.Javier then took us back to his car and drove us to another restaurant which was open :)
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Once again we had trouble reading the menus, we ended up with fried rice for our started with a " thousand surprises", and then for our main meal with had sweet and sour chicken and beef with onions but no rice, as they gave it us for our starter.
When we had finished our Chinese we headed back, which I was really happy about because I had a blister on the bottom of my foot and couldn't really walk properly.
We then spent the rest of the day soaking up the sun in our back garden :)
Today was our last day off work so we had planned to do nothing apart from sunbathe all day in the back garden, until we got woke up by banging on our front door. Lee answered the door to find it was Javier our work friend.
He decided he was taking us to Valladolid for a Chinese, I had only just got out of bed so had to get ready really quite which was quite difficult, I ran down stairs with no make up or hair done and jumped into the car.
When we arrived in Valladolid we got a guided tour of the town centre, it was very warm, but we enjoyed looking round at the old building which he was showing us. Then he took us to a bar and ordered us some potatoe bravas and 3 small beers, Although I don't drink beer I didn't want to look ungrateful so I slowly drank the beer and when Javier wasn't looking passed it over to Lee so he could finish it off.
Then we set off to try and find a Chinese restaurant, we walked all around the town to find it was closed then we set off to find another one, we found it around 10 minutes later but this one had been shut down.Javier then took us back to his car and drove us to another restaurant which was open :)
.Once again we had trouble reading the menus, we ended up with fried rice for our started with a " thousand surprises", and then for our main meal with had sweet and sour chicken and beef with onions but no rice, as they gave it us for our starter.
When we had finished our Chinese we headed back, which I was really happy about because I had a blister on the bottom of my foot and couldn't really walk properly.
We then spent the rest of the day soaking up the sun in our back garden :)
20th August
We had paid to have breakfast in the hotel but because we didn't have a really good sleep, we over slept and missed it :(
When we checked out we got a bill for the water and the wifi, the water costing 4.35 and the wifi was 5, I don't think Lee will ever buy anything from a mini bar again.
We then headed back into Madrid so we could have some breakfast and hopefully find Andrew (Sarah's boyfriend) a Real Madrid shirt. We found a nice restaurant a bit like a spanish Subway, we had a nice salad and a BBQ chicken sandwich. We then set off to the stadium shop, we looked at the price tags on the shirts and saw that they were 96 euros each so I decided I didn't love him that much haha.
We still had a few more hours until our train came but we headed for the train station and watched " we bought a zoo" on my iPad to kill the time.
When we arrived back into Valladolid we had a few drinks while we waited for the bus back home.
Finally we got home, and we headed straight for bed.
When we checked out we got a bill for the water and the wifi, the water costing 4.35 and the wifi was 5, I don't think Lee will ever buy anything from a mini bar again.
We then headed back into Madrid so we could have some breakfast and hopefully find Andrew (Sarah's boyfriend) a Real Madrid shirt. We found a nice restaurant a bit like a spanish Subway, we had a nice salad and a BBQ chicken sandwich. We then set off to the stadium shop, we looked at the price tags on the shirts and saw that they were 96 euros each so I decided I didn't love him that much haha.
We still had a few more hours until our train came but we headed for the train station and watched " we bought a zoo" on my iPad to kill the time.
When we arrived back into Valladolid we had a few drinks while we waited for the bus back home.
Finally we got home, and we headed straight for bed.
19th August
Today we went to Madrid to watch Real Madrid and Valencia play their first match of the season.
We arrived at the bus stop with plenty of time to spare so we didn't miss it, we were very anxious as we haven't had much luck with the busses in the past.
Once we got to Valladolid we found a place where we could have something to eat as we had quite a long day travelling. We then had the difficult task of trying to translate the menu into English, this is one thing we are finding quite a problem while being here in Spain as we don't know what we have ordered.
Once we boarded the train it went quite fast and we arrived in Mardrid In exactly 1 hour. We had worked out our hotel was only a 7minute walk from the train station but without having a map or wifi it was quite impossible to find, so we opted for the easy option and got a taxi.
When we arrived at the hotel we were quite surprised, before I could open the taxi door, a member if hotel staff opened it for me and then the same with the hotel door. The hotel inside was very posh. We defanitly felt a little bit out of place.
We went up to our room, put our bags down and headed straight out for the pub, so Lee could watch Manchester City play. We managed to find a bar close to the ground, a member of staff noticed Lees City top and after a short conversation he agreed to put it on the TV for him which he was really pleased about because he didn't want to miss it. We headed straight to the bar and ordered our drinks, 1 large beer and a can of sprite ( I had a water bottle full of Malibu so I didn't have to buy any) and it came up to 9 euros. We couldn't believe how much they charge but we stayed there anyway and met a few English speaking people, one being a famous DJ in Spain called DJ Daniless he was very nice and told us he was playing in Manchester in February and he wanted us to have free tickets for us and our friends. (DJ Daniless and his new best mate Lee>>>)
After the football had finished we were both really tired so we headed back to the hotel, Lee found the mini bar and decided it would be funny to lift all the flaps as they had my credit card details and it said "lifting the flap will charge". The room was very hot even with the air con so Lee said he would buy a bottle of water from the mini bar.
We had wifi in our room so I rented a film on my iPad (we bought a zoo) hoping I could watch it in bed but as it started to download i knew it would ever be done in time. As expected it took a grand total of around 10 hours to complete.
We arrived at the bus stop with plenty of time to spare so we didn't miss it, we were very anxious as we haven't had much luck with the busses in the past.
Once we got to Valladolid we found a place where we could have something to eat as we had quite a long day travelling. We then had the difficult task of trying to translate the menu into English, this is one thing we are finding quite a problem while being here in Spain as we don't know what we have ordered.
Once we boarded the train it went quite fast and we arrived in Mardrid In exactly 1 hour. We had worked out our hotel was only a 7minute walk from the train station but without having a map or wifi it was quite impossible to find, so we opted for the easy option and got a taxi.
When we arrived at the hotel we were quite surprised, before I could open the taxi door, a member if hotel staff opened it for me and then the same with the hotel door. The hotel inside was very posh. We defanitly felt a little bit out of place.
We went up to our room, put our bags down and headed straight out for the pub, so Lee could watch Manchester City play. We managed to find a bar close to the ground, a member of staff noticed Lees City top and after a short conversation he agreed to put it on the TV for him which he was really pleased about because he didn't want to miss it. We headed straight to the bar and ordered our drinks, 1 large beer and a can of sprite ( I had a water bottle full of Malibu so I didn't have to buy any) and it came up to 9 euros. We couldn't believe how much they charge but we stayed there anyway and met a few English speaking people, one being a famous DJ in Spain called DJ Daniless he was very nice and told us he was playing in Manchester in February and he wanted us to have free tickets for us and our friends. (DJ Daniless and his new best mate Lee>>>)
Lee made us miss the kick off as he wanted to watch the end of city, we then had to run to find our seats, we went through a security check and they found my "water bottle" and tried making me down it but I said it was ok just to put it in the bin as it was straight Malibu and was already feeling the effects. Not only we was late we then couldnt find our seats and asked about a million people before we found then, and a random person was sat in mine.
Although I didn't understand the football, we both had a really good time and the atmosphere was really exciting.
After the football had finished we were both really tired so we headed back to the hotel, Lee found the mini bar and decided it would be funny to lift all the flaps as they had my credit card details and it said "lifting the flap will charge". The room was very hot even with the air con so Lee said he would buy a bottle of water from the mini bar.
We had wifi in our room so I rented a film on my iPad (we bought a zoo) hoping I could watch it in bed but as it started to download i knew it would ever be done in time. As expected it took a grand total of around 10 hours to complete.
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