Andy's Blog

Not having the best of fun at the moment, am currently half deaf after suffering some form of ear infection caught from a local swimming pool – so am now wandering around going; “WHAT? QUE? REPEATE POR FAVOR!!”, which is not the best Spanish one can come up with.

On the positive side; we had a 4.7 scale earthquake early yesterday morning! The whole tower block shook alarmingly for about 30 seconds and allowed me to turn to the wife, whilst still in bed, and ask; “Did the earth move for you love?”

I am currently away on holiday in Spain, in a small wee village called Oropesa, between Valencia and Barcelona. My system is still trying to get over the shock of moving from the month long rainy climes of Britain to the scorching hot Spanish climes (32^oC and counting)!

Of course the inevetable happened; as soon as I took off my shirt I turned a nice shade of red all over. The top of my head is a lovely angry red and my shoulders a shade under that. This does of course mean that I am wandering around the beach in long shorts, t-shirt and my favourite Oz hat to shade all parts of the body, in a desperate attempt not to scare the locals with my luminous skin

During the height of the heat I am staying strictly in-doors and when not spreading thick wads of after sun on, I am dialling up the internet using my little Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and my Razr mobile phone. The speeds aint great, but I can at least post these little entries (thanks to BloGTK) as well as do small updates to my facebook profile. I was hoping to find some open Wi-Fi hotspots around these parts, but the Spaniards have been a little too security focused and not left any of them open

I may post a little entry about the Nokia N800 later on to show you how useful this little device really is, but that may wait until I get back from hols – or at least find an open Wi-Fi connection

I have taken the plunge, even though I still don’t understand what it is I have plunged into, and created myself a ‘facebook’ profile. It is a somewhat strange feeling when the message “Andrew Stewart has made friends with whomever“.

It’s not the easiest system to get to grips with, and couple that with the fact that I am away on holiday and only able to dial-up over my mobile phone (I am trying NOT to think of what my phone bill will look like!) – I am not entirely sure I am making the most of the system.

I have a small number of friends defined on there, although looking at the number of females some of those friends have on their profiles – I am beginning to feel a little old and questioning my sexuality!!