Darling loves, sorry i didn't write this last night - i hope i can remember everything...and liz is coming round at any moment to leave some of her stuff here til wednesday as she's moving into a hostel tonight and doesn't want to take too much. anyway, back to gibraltar, i got the bus yesterday morning as planned after having been further irritate

Lallie jumped into bed very impatient for her lalliebye collection - mama had added a new one just two days ago and lallie was trying to remember the words. it was in german so she had a bit of trouble trying to get her little head around the strange pronunciation and although she knew the story, the words didn't make much sense - this one was abou

Bedtime once again, after a long day of making cakes with mama and planting flowers on the terrasse… lallie was pooped. “stay with me a little while and sing me a lallie-bye,” lallie begged her beloved mama snuggling beside her and finding mama's ear with her nose - its favourite place to be. and mama, because she loved her daughter so, oblig

Darlings who'd have thunk it! little green men with tall hats and guinness t'shirts running around (or lounging about drinking, more often than running) central seville!! all very silly but was fun! to begin, we had our exam (just me and bh as noone else showed - brian had a real true migraine and liz couldn't be bothered)...papers 1 and 2 with res

Darlings, coucoooooooooou!! how are my beloved parents today? another day done as yours hasn't long begun - 8 more to go in spain for me and 79 til dresden, mama. today, i went in to school late. there seems no reason to be there on the dot of ten anymore since noone else is and i'm fed up with being the only one there waiting. i missed a lesson on

Semana santa in seville it's time to look forward to semana santa (holy week), an elaborate commemoration of the last week of christ's life. though i'm not a particularly religious soul, easter for me, as you know, is the most important festival (religiously speaking) of the year. i had hoped that easter 2010 would be spent with you, but i guess th

Lallie was very sleepy as tomorrow would be mother’s day and she had been busy thinking about what she could give her mama to show how much she loved her. she hadn’t been very successful in her thinking as nothing seemed to be enough to portray such a huge emotion as the love she had for her mama, so she was hoping very much that the answer wou

My darlings forgive me for being so inefficient and not writing you an update until now. i'm so sorry. i will start with saturday's visit to ronda in the malaga province, a little under 3h by bus from seville. instead of settling on andalucia's plains, where they would have been sitting ducks for bandits, some andalucians chose to live in the forti

I tumbled into r.g. waldeck's athene palace yesterday and boy, is it a trove of history, first-hand gossip and addictive scandal in fabulous detail. i was no stranger to king carol ii's disastrous ruling nor the shameless disgrace of elena lupescu, but the career of unscrupulous leach ernest urdareanu (1897-1985), the true meteoric ascendance of an

(photo source: cotidianul) passing these two striking buildings joined by a passerelle whilst out for a walk with a friend on friday afternoon, i wondered, not for the first time, what tales lay behind them. somebody had told me a long time ago that the larger one on the right had been a synagogue, and this medieval-looking edifice in the middle of