American in Spain

Dear female wedding guests,

Marga said something to me the other day that hadn’t occurred to my simpleton male brain. She said, “We need to find out which of our guests want to go to the hairdresser the morning of the wedding.”
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Wedding update! We’ve checked four things off the wedding todo list.
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Today’s date is the only date that makes a complete sentence when spoken (“March forth!”). It got up to 27°C today. So naturally, we went to the beach.
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This is the first in a series of blog entries about little differences that I notice between the US and Spain. For each difference, I’ll decide which country does it better, and award points.

The first topic: Book Spines. (more…)

I had to take some books back to the library the other day. The library in Colindres is the worst I’ve ever seen. There’s no order in the books, and there are only about 200 books in a cramped little room. It’s pretty sad. I took my camera along and snapped some pictures of the town hall and a little gazebo thing.
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