As with Clouds, Roughseas will also be taking a sabbatical, ie in my case an indeterminate length of time away from blogging. If, I feel like blogging, I may update the poor dog’s abandoned blog, post on my Landy blog, or maybe a pic on my not-a-photo blog. Thank you to everyone who has passed […]Read Post ›
One of the strangest customs I have learned from my partner is that of always changing something when a room is decorated. No, not the colour, but the layout of the furniture or the situation for hanging pictures. It sounds to me like an old wives’ tale, but he carefully makes sure that at least […]Read Post ›
As someone who has delusions about her station in life and far more aspirations than I can afford, I naturally decided when I quit work, to quit flying. I should have been born to the rich families whose offspring went on The Grand Tour overland through Europe. In fact I’ve done The Grand Tour more […]Read Post ›
It’s fun being chair of the management committee for our block. When we came back to Gib after a weekend in Spain, our neighbour knocked on the door to say he was going on holiday and could we possibly sort out the sewage drain that was overflowing. Er no. Why should we sort someone else’s […]Read Post ›
…are like many things in Spain, a law unto themselves. Context Before I moved to Spain most of my long distance travel in Europe had been on trains. Either my InterRail ticket or trains around France, Germany, The Netherlands etc. But in Spain, much of the long distance travel is provided by buses. Lots and […]Read Post ›
Even rich people suffer in times of economic depression. Honestly. So as a contrast to the family of six adults living out of two old age state pensions and a part-time cleaning job, I thought I would tell the tale about the other side of the street. Literally. Spain has this quaint term called ‘front […]Read Post ›
…I said, as I handed over my monthly car parking fee for our personal space in a secure car park. ‘Sí,’ said the car park manager, rolling her eyes in a very Gibraltarian manner sounding both Spanish and English at the same time. ‘Spain always has very big problems.’ So what do the Spanish think? […]Read Post ›
The latest revamp involves an updated blogroll, but rather than have an extremely tediously long list on the original one, I have just made a new page. Simple huh? If you weren’t included in the last list, from about nine months ago, feel free to head over to More Blogs I Visit, see if you […]Read Post ›
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