And now for something completely different

We said adios to Marga and Yosoy at the end of last week-here we are having dinner in a restaurant in La Barossa (in which the subjunctive was used, and not just by a Spanish person!).
Today we say adios to La Barossa because tomorrow we are off to Sevilla for a month to another language school.

José in the little shop at the top of the road says that when we come back we will know more Spanish than him, but to beware of robbers in the big city. We have assured him that we will be happy simply to know more Spanish than we do now (especially that pesky subjunctive) and that we will take good care. We also cancelled our order for branflakes and activia yoghourt which he kindly stocks for us. The shop is very quiet at the moment-often more staff are there than customers so he may well have to lay some of them off in our absence.

It will be spring when we return and almost a year since we let our apartment in Birmingham and arrived here. How time flies, as we have mentioned before......