Toledo. I love the muted desert colors blending into the muted desert colors.

Quality alcohol is quite cheap out here, at least compared the USA (NYC in particular), and Budapest. No need for "duty free" here. When you order a drink, the waiter brings the whole bottle of Jack, Johnnie, or Beefeater, and pours, and pours, sometimes nearly a whole glass! That's with or without ice. So, quality not quantity, 3.50-6 $ is a fine evening out.

Sault!

Long days at school this week.

At least it's still pretty sunny at 7pm. Went for Mexican food then. A little place near Opera. I loved the "carta", or menu - it really was a carta, eh.

Bizzar flirting.

I remember now being here in the 90s and how creepy it was when old Spanish men cat called. Tick tick tick, it sounded like. Still creepy. Sunday I went to the Rastro, or flea market, and after I emerged from the subway, heading toward a breakfast bar, an older man in a suit looks at my water bottle and says, "Dime alguien agua." I when I didn't hear him he repeated it louder and meaner. When I tried a mouth a friendly nondescript response, he yelled! "Give me some water!" (in Spanish of course).

Creepy.

I was asked to cover up at school today! The shock, the shame.

Good thing I didn't go with that strappy
backless number :-O

Don Quixote

Kept stumbling on this guy on a recent outing to Toledo. Had the idea that I should be photographed with each one I find, anytime, anywhere. Let's see if that happens.

Oh ya, done this a million times before... why bother. No! I won´t be cynical. I´ve recently moved to Madrid, Spain, as many of you know. I may think I´m an old hand at moving between countries, but I think it may be important for me, to me, to keep a record, or scrapbook of how I´ll see and experience things this year, and next, and......

Also, instead of the odd long post, the oversized .jpg files, I´ll do it all here, and you can check at will. I hope this will be interesting for all.

BTW, this is my first blog. I considered before, and tried once or twice, but nothing that interesting was happening, plus, if it was to be a diary, I didn´t want to share that in cyberspace for anyone to see, or not see. But this is to be a scrap book, more portable than the kind with paper pages and pounds of photos, plus, I´ll do all the detailed blabbing on each photo or event here, instead of your living room, ha ha.

Enjoy. Reply. I intend to.