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13 July 2019
Today I return to mainland Spain after my week of school in Tenerife. I took an early bus to Tenerife North airport, 30 minutes away, getting to the terminal around 0900. I settled into the lounge airside and had my own muesli with a few other bits. The location gave me a good view of […]
10 July 2019
After school today, I checked out the waters that had been beckoning me over the last few days. I had hesitated because the weather wasn’t exactly hot hot. I tested the waters in the sea nearby. With the black sand/rock the water wasn’t as cold as I had expected. But I thought I’d leave it […]
9 July 2019
In the afternoon, after school, I made a trip to La Orotava. This is one of several old town on Tenerife but it is the nearest one to Puerto de la Cruz. In fact, it is just on the hills behind Puerto. I had to walk uphill to my bus station to catch the bus […]
8 July 2019
I started my second week of Spanish studies at the Don Quijote institute five minutes walk away. Like their sister-school Enforex in Salamanca, the 4h per day was split between two teachers. One teacher was awesome and could help students understand Spanish grammar with comparisons with French, German and Italian (the respective students’ native tongues). […]
7 July 2019
I have Spanish classes here at the Don Quijote school, a sister-school to Enforex where I spent my first week. That would take up all my weekdays, meaning that today, being Sunday is my only chance to go further afield. It was a tough choice between going to Masca or Teide (the highest mountain in […]
6 July 2019
Today I move on to Tenerife in the Canary Islands by bus and flight. I like to think of the Canary Islands as Africa in Spain or Europe, since it is just off Morocco and Western Sahara, My bus to Madrid airport leaves at 1100 so I had time to kill. I had finished all […]
5 July 2019
It’s my last day in Salamanca today. In the evening, after class and swim, I wandered out into the pedestrian streets. There was music from a band with traditional Spanish music. I call them wandering minstrels. While I had seen them from afar from previous days, this was the first time I could enjoy them […]
3 July 2019
After school and swim today, I picked up the remaining sights to visit internally. I decided against visiting the University’s old building. While the facade was ornate, apparently the inside is less so. That left only the Pontifical University. It was started by the Pope in 1940 after Theology and Canon Law were excluded from […]
2 July 2019
Jesuits In school, I found out that one of my classmates is a Jesuit priest. In fact, there were many others in the school coming from Indonesia, India and probably other places which would make them less distinguishable from other students. My Jesuit classmate has multiple degrees, multiple masters, and has had careers in journalism, […]
1 July 2019
Spanish lessons Today I start two weeks of Spanish lessons at Enforex. The first week will be here in Salamanca and the second week in Tenerife. I suspect the change of venue will be at the expense of continuity but fingers crossed. My previous experience with the language at been 6 nights at nights school […]