The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray!!!

After weeks of schizophrenic weather (at the beginning of March I was wearing flip-flops, and 2 weeks ago it was pissing it down and freezing), Madrid, courtesy of global warming, has finally decided to join in with the whole "summer" thing.
Like the UK, Spain is set to experience a scorcher this year....so I am busy trying to figure out the best place to escape the heat come July and August. With predictions of 35 degrees and above, Madrid´s desert climate is not really an option!!

So....now I have to try and remember what I have been up to over the last month.

Well, my mother came to visit a coupe of weeks ago and brought beautiful English weather with her which reminded me of home, and didn´t make me feel homesick in the slightest. A little visit to the Roman city of Segovia and a yummy lunch of cochinillo (teeny-tiny-weeny baby pig) was delicous.
My brother (the bigger and bossier one) is coming to visit me this weekend, and in order to repay him for all his male-chauvinistic rants over the years I am going to drag him along for a girly weekend in the university town of Salamanca....which is famous for its... ahem...relaxed nightlife. My New Year´s resolution to cut back on the beer is very difficult in a country where it´s cold, refreshing, cheap, and usually served with free tapas.

I have been busy grabbing every opportunity to speak Spanish that I can, which mainly involves crashing Spanish parties and making the poor guests listen to me.

May is fiesta season.....(Madrid alone has 15 bank holidays a year), so I am going to spend most of the next month partying in the street to celebrate some random saints birthday, or something similar.
However, I am harding back to the UK between the 17th and 22nd May, so would be lovely to see people, whoever is around.

I´m about to run out of credit at the internet cafe, so must dash (and anyway...the sun is beckoning and giving me "beer and calamari on a terrace someplace nice" cravings.

I hope that everybody is well....and that the blog is enough to let you all know how I am. I am rubbish with email.

Hasta luego cara huevos

Liv x x x