Author: Ben

What the hell are we going to do about this. Governments need to start thinking now about how to avoid this happening again, and again. Horrible shades of March 11th bombs here in Madrid, the same feelings of shock and revulsion for me. What are we going to do?

Wow. We all thought it would be Paris. The first comment by most Spaniards was, obviously, how much did London pay to get that? And what on earth to the French think? Well it certainly provides a lot more fuel for their English-hating fire. Oh well, as my friend Rafe pointed out, at least we will be spared seven years of non-stop public works. Practically every street in the city has been taken apart in preparation for the Olympic bid – goodness knows what would happen if they had actually won… They might have tried to rebuild whole sections of the city from scratch.

Still, it’s a shame, I was looking forward to an Olympic Madrid. I still think it should have been Paris….

Will we (Madrid) get the Olympics? Today’s the big day – my money, unfortunately, is on Paris…. Watch this space!

… go and see War of the Worlds at the cinema. It’s crap. Good first half hour, then crap – Independence Day was much better. You have been warned!

And here it is in American – Happy Independence Day!

And look at the temp. now, 31/89 degrees, at 11 p.m. – ouch!

It’s 3 a.m. and in 5.5 hours I have to provide an English class. To a nice guy, a super-boss. Hmmmm…

So the government has approved gay marriages and adoption by gay couples. Good! (Although I have to admit that I find the marriage thing much more clear than the adoption part – meaning that there may be more ‘issues’ involved there from the children’s point of view. It will take a while for the two mums or two dads concept to be accepted amongst the other kids…)

Time to sleep, I’m knackered….

Wow what a week…. 40,000 words of translation in the last 9 days…. in all this heat – result? Podcast no. 8 is running a couple of days late, but stay (i)tuned, it’s coming soon!