I like to ride my bicycle…

I like to ride my bike…
A couple of months ago, the lord got his mountain back stolen, in truth it just disappeared from the shed at home.
This sparkled a renew interest on his part to have a bike. We haven’t used the bikes for ages, we didn’t ride at all while in Brazil, despite [...]

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Turkey run

Yes, it is not quite like the film “Chicekn run”, but I have agreed with demasiadoego to train and take part in the 10KM run in Mexico City on Christmas eve.
In Mexico, it is traditional to celebrate with lots of food and drink on the 24th, and not so much on the 25th.
I am quite [...]

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Settled!

It’s official. After a week of collating documents, translating Brazilian bills, writing letters and filling applications, we had our interview yesterday afternoon with the immigration authorities in Croydon.
We had this romanticed and naive idea that when they said we had to pay £950 for premium service, it meant we would be received in a plush [...]

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Notification

Dear readers,
Those of you that visit this neighbourhood often may have noticed that all of a sudden I am posting quite often.
This is due mostly to the wonderful new application for wordpress I have downloaded for My iPhone.
This way, I am able to write whenever and anywhere I want.
The only restriction is that I [...]

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Viva Mexico (in London)

Yesterday I went out to celebrate the Mexican day of independence. In true Mexican style, I only planned this night out last Friday. I convinced the lord and our German friend to come along. I don’t have any Mexican friend. (actually just recently, I contacted a woman who runs a Mexican social group, but we [...]

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Thames and the City

Over the course of the weekend, the Thames south-embankment tranforms into huge outdoors festival. London is always teeming with festivals, and surprinsingly given the unreliable weather, outdoor festivals remain very popular. As long as it is not absolutely flooded with rainwater and the winds are not gale-strong, the English know how to enjoy the outing [...]

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La machina rex interfectus est

I am writing this from a train from Exeter to London. When we left for a short holiday in the countryside, there was three of us. And no need for a train.
We had been waiting for the summer all summer. Last Sunday, as the weather forecast predicted yet another dreadful rainy windy week, we [...]

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La Grande Réentrée

Septiembre ha llegado.
Me he prometido aprovechar el regreso escolar y el final del verano para salir de mi sopor estival y retomar el blog.
Hay tantas cosas que contar…
Y tan poco tiempo.
Siempre siento que el comienza del anio escolar es mejor que el anio nuevo, me lleno de propositos buenos, me digo, ahora si, comere saludable, [...]

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Como asistir a un conceirto de rock sin pagar un centimo

Hace ya una semana. El sabado y el domingo pasado (19 y 20 de julio) en el parque que queda frente a mi casa y el cual veo desde mi balcon todos los dias (especialmente ahora que finalmente verano ha llegado) hubo un festival de verano, de esos con los que fantaseaba cuando era una [...]

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Éducation anglaise

Bueno, ya estamos todo de acuerdo que nos gusta escuchar a la gente, sobre todo cuando estas no saben que están siendo escuchadas por nosotros…

Pero hay de chismosear por gusto, vamos, hasta ejercitar el oído y estirar sus capacidades naturales, mediante una concentración sobre humana, ha tener que esforzarse en ignorar lo que se esta [...]

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