Tonight in the whole of Spain processions are held for the arrival of Los Reyes Magos, The Three Kings. On national television there is an hours long broadcast about the celebrations in Madrid, but also here in Valencia the streets were being decorated this afternoon already, tribunes and chairs for the audience were set up [...]
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walk in the park
Today a year ago we visited the Great Wall at Jiankou for the 5km hike along the wild wall. We had gorgeous weather, blue skies and did a picnic at the ruins of one of the watch towers. Coincidentally today in Valencia also was gorgeous: 20 degrees and blue skies. The perfect day to finally [...]
Mia has finally arrived in Valencia!
On Saturday afternoon I could finally pick up Mia from the airport after our 2.5 months of separation! It was great to see her walking through the gate, pushing her cart with a stack of suitcases on it. We took a taxi back home and went to the supermercado to buy some things for in [...]
beautiful light
A weird day today. It seemed all right waking up in the sunlight, but it was extremely cold. Read on the news that a cold front has arrived in Spain and the first snow has already fallen in the north. In Madrid it has been raining heavily causing flooded roads and lots of traffic jams. [...]
the week that was
Finally today the sun is shining again and the sky is gorgeous blue after more than a week of pitiful weather. The most important reason why I haven’t been writing my blog: grey and wet outside makes me dull and without energy. Another reason to write today is because I have an hour extra. Wintertime, [...]
Chinese shops
Finally found a street with some Chinese shops today! A co-student told me where to find them, in the station area. So I walked there and found 2 shops, one with live fish and fresh veggies and meat and the other more “supermarket”-like with different kinds of chillies, dried, sauce, even sambal and finally real [...]
my 2nd day in school
When I arrived at school yesterday they had made some changes as my co-student canceled an hour before. So instead of giving me 4hrs per day, they changed it now into two hours per day for the first week, but then guaranteed private lessons, plus on Monday 4 hours private class. Well, that’s ok with [...]
temporary spicy-fix
Been busy with updating and connecting all my online social networking stuff, you can see it in the sidebar of my about page. You probably also have noticed posts with links coming in every day at 4am. No, that is not me being still awake (although sometimes I am), it’s delicious posting a feed of [...]
happy customer
Can it be true? Are there really companies waking up and start to grasp the true meaning of the word service?! Since it is a rainy day and I am not feeling like cooking up any food nor going out to get some and I already had a hotpot for lunch this afternoon, I decided [...]