Guess who just loves walking barefoot in the sand?!
26 May 2005
Getting into the water... when we arrived at the beach Liam was adamant that the water was completely out of bounds. According to him sand and sand-castles were the only decent reasons for going to the beach and anyone who ventured into the water was mad!!! As you can see, it didn't take long for Rita and Lola's example to entice him towards the shore!
Pere Vila, from another angle. All the classrooms are large with big windows and lots of light. They have a big assembly hall (much like the ones at my old schools in Dun Laoghaire) with a stage and sports equipment. There are two playgrounds, one of which has a vegetable garden planted and tended by the kids!
Liam's new school: CEIP Pere Vila
http://www.xtec.es/ceip-perevila-barcelona/
This is Liam's new school. Yes! He's finally been assigned a place! He'll be starting preschool there next September. It's just across the way by the Arc de Trionf. Less than 5 minutes walk from our house (at adult pace!). Although we're not ecstatically jumping for joy because this school was only 5th on our list of preferences (there were no places left at the other four after the draw), we are still very happy indeed as it's a good school, it's close to home and lots of Liam's friends are going there too!
Ada is one of the little friends Malachy made at the Casc Antic CAP baby group... her mum Circe and dad Fer are lovely folk... friends of Laia's (Martina and Violeta's mum). Some of us baby group gang will be getting together next Tuesday for lunch at our house. Silvia (Arnau and Aina's mum) is going back to work on Wednesday after a long stretch of leave so it's a kind of farewell for her and a nice chance for us to show the girls the new flat and let the kids play around together!
22 May 2005
21 May 2005
Presenting: my new bike!!! Well it will be soon! I just bought it on e-bay this morning and now I'm impatiently waiting for it to arrive (probably won't get here till next week). Can't wait to be back on two wheels again! My old crock conked out over a month ago and I've been on the metro to work since then, and hate it! Not long now till I'll be zipping along the bike lane on this, my new "Beachcruiser"!
This guy here is one of Euskadi's champion Aizkolaris. On this particular occassion he took over fifty swings of the axe to chop the log in half (his record stands at thirty-something) and lost to his component (the guy in the following photo) because he was unlucky enough to come up against a knot in the wood.
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