A Foot in Two Campos

2 min read 2021-02-28 20:56:15

189 – Walking Through Lockdown

And so it goes on. Coming up to a year, now. Facebook “Memories” each morning highlight the last of those crowded events we went to back when

4 min read 2020-12-28 18:14:53

Their eyes widened as I tried to explain ‘salted caramel’. A flavour that has long been popular in the UK but is only just arriving in Spain

4 min read 2020-03-23 18:26:06

LOCKDOWN DAY TWO: Monday is the first “normal” day of the lockdown. I go to the surgery for routine blood tests. Everyone is maintaining

4 min read 2020-03-15 21:42:57

It’s just as well that the Spanish prime minister is easy on the eye. Guapo, we say in Spanish. Just as well, as we sit glued to the television

6 min read 2020-03-12 21:34:27

I get to the bar first, bang on time. You can take the woman out of England but you can’t take English punctuality out of the woman. Miguel

5 min read 2020-02-23 17:16:51

At Málaga airport they let me through the normal passport queue. A relief. The EU citizens’ queue. My first flight after THAT date. Exit

3 min read 2020-02-12 02:00:31

They were already queuing to get back into the hostel for their lunch when I parked outside on Christmas Eve, risking leaving the car in the

6 min read 2019-12-08 23:44:08

As I boarded I had a sneaky feeling it was a complete waste of time. No, that’s not fair. It’s always lovely to see friends in Dorset, and I

4 min read 2019-09-26 23:00:39

Church halls pretty much anywhere in the western world all look remarkably similar. This one was just like the one in Yorkshire I went to in the

4 min read 2019-09-01 18:26:58

There was a nurse on my flight home to Málaga. A Spanish nurse, working in a GP surgery in Dorset. British husband, dual-nationality totally

5 min read 2019-08-25 17:57:08

Forty degrees and higher. Really, that is too much. The rhythm of the day changes to suit the temperature. At the hottest time, after a lazy

5 min read 2019-08-07 20:51:26

Back when I worked (oh how long ago it seems, now!) I was up with all the jargon. Words like social inclusion, stakeholders, outcomes and

5 min read 2019-02-17 17:20:02

Forty-four days. I go for my morning walk, my feet heading automatically to the Enchanted Place. The almond blossom is just finishing, and the

1 min read 2017-12-11 02:13:35

It’s fascinating to think about life in other ages, though significantly harder (for me, at least) to separate those epochs in my mind and

1 min read 2017-11-30 22:14:06

The tradition began a few years ago. A coachload of villagers from my pueblo and a nearby one had gone off on a holiday together to Almería in the