Watch out for the jellyfish

We spent most of the day at the beach yesterday as the weather was glorious. We all managed to get burnt (don't recommend it) but at least we didn't get stung! The thing is that I don't know why but since last year there seems to have been a real increase in the number of jellfish in the sea near the shore. Having been stung many-a-time in the past (don't recommend this either) I tend to be quite cautious when diving in. These days I seem to spend the first half hour at the beach with bucket in hand fishing them out one by one....but more always come along later.

So if you're in the area just be careful and check to see if I haven't yet managed to clear up all the jellyfish for you!

You must see Seville now

We went to Seville last week (sorry, it's taken me a while to blog about it). Seville is a beautiful city with so much to see. There is a lot of history within the city and it just oozes charm. With two 4 year olds and my mother in tow, we decided to view the city on the Seville tour bus. This has to be the best way to see it all unless you are young and fit and don't mind the heat.

That's the only problem with Seville...it gets excruciatingly hot. It was 35 degrees when we went and it gets much hotter than that in the summer. We found it too hot at that temperature and were just seeking shade everwhere we went. So if you do want to go I would suggest you don't go in the middle of summer, you just won't enjoy it.

We had to do a bit of hunting/ asking around for someone good to eat. We sat at one restaurant to begin with (it looked very ordinary) only to see on the menu that the starters were nearly 20 Euros each! We made a swift exit and after much hunting found an excellent (very busy) fish resaurant just beside the main bull ring. This was excellently priced and we were served really quickly.

I won't go into the actual things to see in Seville as you'll find lots of information about that on the Internet anyway, but it's certainly worth seeing....just not in summer!

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Langauge can be funny

What has happened to the weather in Spain these days? It's like living in UK again. We seem to have more bad days than good at the moment. Even the Spanish are finding it odd. OK, so we'll all be moaning soon that it's too hot but that's not the point....

The day started really well today, the sun was shining, we went for breakfast at the best coffee shop in the area by far but now it's dull and windy again. Oh well.

Saw something funny yesterday. For the Spanish, if they can speak some English, then that is regarded as being cultured. They all (more or less) want to learn. The thing is that at the same time they think it's cool to wear clothes with english words on them...even if they don't know what they mean...see where I'm going with this!? Saw a mother and daughter yesterday and the mother (a very mumsy one at that) was wearing a t-shirt with the words "Up for it" in big across the front! Surely she couldn't have known what that really meant!

We also received a couple of t-shirst as presents (from a Spanish friend) for our daughters recently with some English writing on the front. They read "Wearing the new shit goes to school". It's badly worded anyway but missing out that "r" totally changes the sentence! If only our friend could read a little bit of English...

Just back from UK

I've been in the UK for the past week so not been able to blog at all. I took my laptop and planned to hook up to some open wireless networks to access the Internet....as many people do in Spain. How many open networks did I find? NONE! It would be interesting to know (for those geeks amongst us) what level of Internet users in the UK have wireless networks compared with Spain? In Spain wireless networks are all over the place so it's easy to get some "free Internet" off the back of someone's else's connection (yes, it's a bit cheeky but people can password protect their networks if they want to). So, now I'm back with hundreds of emails to get through.

It was interesting going back to the UK as I haven't been back for over a year. I was in Kent. We used to live in Kent and being there brough back lots of good memories. We always loved Kent, the gorgeous countryside, the beautiful towns, etc. However, despite all its charm I still believe we made the right move in going to live in Spain, particularly for the kids. It didn't rain much whilst I was in UK but it was very dull, very grey, especially compared to the bightness of where we live in Spain.

Life is definitely much more relaxed and "easy going" here in Spain which is how it should be. We won't be going back in a hurry...that's for sure!