Hit-and-run culture

Finally took our cameras on a walk, so new photos are on Flickr. It was a long walk too but we broke up the return journey with a few stops for a quick beer at some outdoor places on the way. Jay had already scoped out the modern art museo, the Reina Sofia, so we targeted the big Picasso's and Dali's for some hit-and-run culture. The large park that's 15 minutes walk from our apartment is great and after being asked if we wanted to buy any hashish we mingled with the crowds, runners and roller bladers.The weather has been great this week and it looks like blue skies today too. It makes our office pretty hard to bear in the afternoon though as they don't appear to arc up the air-con as the building heats up and we're all suffering to varying degrees in the dead/stale air. But lunch is when we get out and go for a walk and yesterday found a great little donor kebab place where we had a really tasty meal so the food options are opening up finally.We have requirements discussions all day today, hopefully we'll be able to contribute. Although most meetings are started in English, and it sounds like the main points are discussed in English, there are often long sections of discussion in Spanish that we're always unsure what's being said. The long sections are usually summarised for us in English, but the summary is always very short leaving me worried that we're missing something. But in the end it'll all be written down by our Spanish BA's and translated for us so we're hoping it's going to work out.

Anyways, I better finish breakfast and have a shave so we can get out of here.

Andy, out.