It has been a while since I have been able to get online to write on this blog... and to be honest I'm not sure there is much to add!
We finished our first month working for Forenex and thoroughly enjoyed it! The food was rubbish, it was so hot that it was difficult to sleep, lack of sleep made us stupid and Danielle nearly turned to drink to ease her stresses! lol! But the kids were great craic and we had a wonderful time meeting them and making some new friends amongst the other teachers.
And Danielle enjoyed it so much that she volunteered us to be available for another fortnight should we be needed! Doh!
We then stayed with one of the other teachers, Charley, and her husband for the weekend until we had to travel on the Med. She isn't always up for having her photo taken.... though sometimes its hard to stop her...
So, we set off for a short holiday last week and joined up with Danielle's Mum, Charley-Louise and Pearse in Hospitalet de l'Infant... which is about 45 mins south of Tarragona.
The journey here has been something of a story too - the Spainish website for the trains won't work in English so we had to do it in Spanish... so we booked an overnight train to Tarragona from Madrid... all that was ok! Then when we actually got the train, the Preferential cabin we got was from the 1960s, and smelt like it hadn't been cleaned since then either! We also had to share it with 4 others so the opportunity to sleep for 7 hours flew out the window!
To cut a long long journey short - after a really awful night's travelling I lost my treasured straw hat and when we got to Tarragona we had to wait for a further hour in the dull and cold street as Danielle's Mum had sent our lift to the Bus Station for some unknown reason.... but we're all ok and smiling now!!!
Hospitalet isn't much to write about - its small, everything closes at siesta and its full of French, Germans and Spaniards... plus a handful of Brits and the 5 of us that are Irish. Having said that, it has a summer programme of 'entertainment' (they seem to have used that in its loosest possible terms) which has at times been entertaining. There was a night which was billed as Dancing with Mar Blava - which turned out to be two different schools of dance, one contemporary and the other Flamenco, at it was genuinely really good - especially the Flamenco!
They also have outdoor cinema once a week, but it was Avatar last week and this week its Invictus so we aren't going to bother with that. Every so often something else pops up that keeps us amused at night - otherwise it is the beach from 12pm until around 8pm at night (except for me who has work to do!).
So... it's time I got back to said work.. no rest for the wicked!
C
