yep, still truckin...

well, busin´and trainin´

but alas, i have been in spain for the last 4 weeks and i have lost enthusiasm for the journalin´ because spain is just so lazifying like that. all the snacking and the napping...

so once i get some photos plugged into a computer, i´ll be back and i´ll let them tell the story.

and yes, spain is amazing. i have pretty much made a clockwise semi-cirle staying pretty near the coast, from bilbao through san sebastian, pamplona, valencia, gandia, playa piles, oliva, alicante, granda, ronda, and now i am happily kickin´it in sevilla.

hasta llugo.... it´s cafe con leche time.

perpetual state of bliss

europe has the freshest most flavorful ingredients, and they concoct absolutely delicious scrumptious, delectable, mouthwatering snacks, food, and desserts of all sorts. well i'm sure you all knew this already.... i just had to confirm.

mmm yum. photos to come.

pipers green

the pyms are old family friends... i've known most of them since i was born. hope is my mom's best friend, she married johnny, moved to england, and then came celia, william, and martha. when i was growning up, we went to visit them at least once a year and they came to see us at least once a year. it has and always be a fantastic time! the proof of these visits are a great many of the pictures on my parents' bathroom wall... therefore they call me katherine.

my dad working at his camera, photo on the pym's fridge


anyway, traveling back through england before heading to spain i got the chance to stay with 4 out of the 5 of them ('cus william lives in the states)... celia and martha in london and hope and johnny in kent, pipers green to be exact. it was the first time i'd seeen their new house and one morsel of delightfulness is that hope and johnny's house even looks and feels like my parents' house, just in english country house form. i coincidently landed there on thanksgiving, and johnny made an awsome veggie curry, not for thanksgiving really i was just sticking to the whole food theme. i got to talk to some of the famalam on the phone... excellent time. in the morning (let it be known it was 8.30am) i went on a walk with hope and the dog, berry... did i say walk? it was more like a hike, and it was fanstastic... even including the scary part where we walked through the cows and big likes of poo (shhh don't tell customs.) morning walk

and staying with celia and martha was fun too, they have a cute apartment with a nice view in the north of london's city centre (i think?) plus celia was doing a really cool exhibition at her art school where she had people bring her knitted items with holes, and she would mend them. the thing i lolve best about this is that she is actually most interested in the shape of the actual hole and what happenes when you knit that space. plus it looked great, both the gallery and her mending. 25 points to celia for driving me the the airport bus at 4.30 in the morning on a weekend. cheers.


as usual there is much more to be said. however i have reached my limit for patience while blogging. i will say this though... i'm in spain at my girl ece's house in pamplona. spain is fanstastic, i'm so glad i'm here... i just enjoy the feel of it. tons of pics and yakkity yak later.