Chapter 3

La Chica Rubia, en España

Month: June, 2010

Feeling outside, being inside

Day 29, Málaga.  Soon I will travel back in time to Granada where I spent three days before arriving here. But for now, in Málaga we are. Parts of the city have had a facelift in the last couple of years and in the very centre, in the immediate surroundings of Plaza de Constitución, the [...]

House fires and mint tea

Day 21, Córdoba. On Saturday I travelled 924 kilometres into a new unfamiliar world. The train took me through cloudy mountain tops and my old reliable travelling companion, the monstrous hangover, kept me good company for the best part of the journey. The landscape flattened but the clouds didn’t part until I got to down [...]

Different music

Day 14, San Sebastian.  Level of Spanish: A rollercoaster of a week has made me a little more aware of the mysteries of the language but, as the case tends to be with many other things in life, the more I learn the less I know. The school is not delivering what it promised me and I’m spending most of my free [...]