The Magic Box

A day of tennis at the Caja Magica for the Madrid Open.

geeek !

Another one from the x-pro film i did at the rastro. Russian, Japanese, SLR, Rangefinder, Automatic, grease Lightning! Luckily i don't have the money to be an equipment geek

window on delicias

moving to Brazil

Marcos gave me all the rent to pay-in today. Its a shame he's such a nice guy

the future of interior design

Bathrooms by Emilia

spanish kitchen

walking up a hill

politics and tea

... although we all look at the g2 part first anyway, right ?

paseo del prado

leaves on trees !

Fun Waiters

These guys look like a 1930s comedy duo. I like the guy making the fist

the thing in the corner

less than 8 weeks of work left... what next ?

Park Life

Suddenly things got hot in town this week, leaving me extremely lazy. So this is a mini-montage from my parents' visit in Feb

Sunday mornings how they should be

day two in San Seb

Butterfly Effect

Dad ended up staying most of last week at my house here in Madrid as a real life volcano refugee. The chaos scored me a free trip to the seaside as I went as far as San Sebastian with him on his mega train trip home

cafe fridays

Analogue Future

A shot from the Rastro I took ages ago on my Mum's MINOLTA. I just got the film back today - completely forgot how exciting it is !

midnight diners

limelight

more on a theme

"Authentic Materials"

In the EFL classroom with Edward Carpenter

Spain

Walking out in the west of Madrid . Click to make big

Volcano

One stranded Dad takes hotel room in Madrid. Included in the room = free minibar! Stranded Dad has now moved to house of supporting son (in part exchange for the minibar products)

te echo de menos

Scalextric

late shift

they work

A student's advice on what to do if you are new in town: 'the night is very important'

i work

Wiping off the dust

Birthdays

Today Karen, my parents' friend from uni, celebrated her birthday with Spanish friends in an English style, by cooking an enormous curry eaten out in the garden with the amazing backdrop of the Sierra de Guadamarra. Men with moustaches sung, ladies danced, the sun shined, kids climbed trees, and a little dog kept trying to steal everyone's food. Great way to forget about Monday

warm air at night

Reina de Sofia from my room

Turn up the blue, would you?

Check out the ubiquitous squid

Business Time

Catching a couple of minutes of vitamin D before class

La Cancha

Candid shot from basketball

Digital

One day this week we turned on the TV to find a message telling us that the analogue TV signal had been switched off in all of Spain, for good. This wasn't really a surprise as we'd had the digital box sat on the sofa for a good few weeks waiting for somebody to muster the energy to plug it in. The time had come. Now we have 36 channels! Showing such delights as dubbed American infomercials touting realistic plastic fly-fishing bait, or, as in the above picture, a pen that removes scratches from your car "whilst saving money". That's this Christmas sorted at least.

Expat Life

Supplies arrive

Welcome to the Suburbs

Pay Day = Train trip out of town to middle-of-nowhere shopping centre.
Purchased: Rollerblades, a frisbee, and a basketball.
Hoping for: Better weather

Dan & Paul

Saying goodbye to old friends

People

pajaro y cielo

Taken on a daytrip to Alcala de Henares. These huge storks (?) more or less ran the town

the unlucky ones

No beaches or coast. Only a tiny drying up river. But somehow the seafood is always excellent. Where am I? MADRID you fool !

Photo taken by Dan

between places

Dropping the girls off at the airport today

Rummage !!

Visitors in town = obligatory trip to el rastro

Panda Kids

Painted up for WWF international "Hour of the Planet" in the park today. These kids looked too funny

The Life

This Friday morning, (the last of term thank goodness), was mostly spent eating and talking about peanut butter in a cafe down the road from school, marking exams, and then disputing the answers.

safe and warm

Baloncesta

I went to play basketball for the first time in years last night. They called me EL PEQUENITO - "The Small One". If I go back I'll need to get a lot better ...starting with the vocab!

Value

My sister is visiting for the next few days which is very exciting. I rushed out earlier to buy a few essentials for the house, including an extra towel. What I came back with is probably the worst quality towel for sale within a 5 mile radius of my house. But who cares about purpose when you've got a design like this!?

Spring Colour

people vs. animals

Las Ventas Bullring

La Crema

A bunch of friends sat on a van watching one of the fallas go up on the last night of the festival.