It was a bit like Groundhog Day: I was back in the parrot cage: it’s Sunday, it’s lunchtime and all around me people are shouting cheerfully at each other like animated parrots: admonishing children, ‘don’t hit Antonio’ ‘ be careful in the water,’ ‘eat up your paella’ as they extract food from a seemingly bottomless … Continue reading ¡Hola! – July 2019

I’ve just spent the last half hour talking to a washing machine in Serbo Croat. I’m exaggerating of course, it was 10 minutes in Czech. All I wanted was a 40 degree wash and the darned thing was asking me what language I wanted to communicate in. I chose English (GB) briefly wondering what the … Continue reading Continuing our watery wanderings – September 2018