El Puente

I´m off to Salamanca and Segovia this weekend. We have a four day weekend thanks to the Puente. I think we get extra time off because there´s a religious holiday, but I´m not sure. Regardless, we´re going to enojy ourselves checking out tourist spots and seeing the sights. Hopefully, we will also find a hostel, and won´t have to sleep in the streets.

We had an encounter today with some riff raff. Every Wednesday we have a picnic in El Retiro, and today as we were beginning to eat a group of kids approached us asking for food. We hesitated, then offered them some fruit. They must have taken our hesitation as some sort of signal, and they refused to leave until we gave them more food. They eventually fot tired of asking and simply grabbed a loaf of bread and a bottle of soda and ran off. It was kind of frustrating, because there´s not much you can do to a group of 13 year old kids to make them go away. Also, Gillian cut herself with a knife. So, not the best picnic ever.

And finally, I´ve spotted signs for Sodexho around Madrid. I didn´t have a camera with me, but I´ll get some photographic proof. Sodexho, it seems, is everywhere.

From Salamanca with love,
Sean OUT