quickly quickly, found a free internet in the shadow of the giant behemoth which fills our valley -
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g201/honourjohanna/sotopower.jpg (which itself is reminisceint of bradford) with fumes and stench. so the place we are at now is not the most picturesque or tranquilo, but it is kind of ok. we dug up a hibernating lizard today, which was exciting, probably not for the lizard which might die now, but it was ace to imagine the things which dwell in this rainy land in the summer.
madrid never did sucumb to our food hunt, and poor jess was sick all the way to oviedo.
however, i have decided to give up on the whole spain thing a bit. i will not really learn much spanish, but hopefully we´ll have an ok week on the bradford farm (where i understand pretty much nothing which is happening) and then an exciting time visiting kathleen in barcelona. i´m really looking forward to going home. i cannot seem to find out how at the moment. i am considering trying to ride the train for free through france (apparently they aren´t supposed to kick you off, as long as you have id they´re supposed to send the fine to the british consel who then throw it in the bin, so i´m told) because i don´t want to hitch in a country where i can´t speak the language. probably the coach in the end, though i can´t work out how much it will cost...
anyway,
looking forward to getting back, yes yes yes.
goodbye.