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So you want to be a bullfighter
This past weekend we took El Tren de las Fresas (The Strawberry Train), which travels the old route from Madrid to Aranjuez. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting. The advertisement featured a train blowing strawberries out of its smo...
Buried in chestnuts and snot
This week I peeled approximately 400 chestnuts for a chestnut/chorizo/saffron soup that I made for some friends. It was delicious but Good God I will never ever do it again. The skin under my fingernails is still sore from peeling back the shells (...
First Smiles
NaturallyCaron.com :: Strawberry Hill
Using size 6 needles, cast on 90 (98, 106) sts. Knit 4 rows. Change to size 7 needles. Work even in St st until piece measures 7 1/2 (9, 11)" from beginning, end with a WS and decrease 32 (36, 40) sts evenly across last row—58 (62, 66) sts. Be...
Street Life
It has recently come to my attention that after six years, my days of living abroad may be numbered (or they may not, we don’t know yet but we will soon). I’ve already forgotten so many things about life in Japan and Switzerland, and I’m sure...
Pool noodle play
Last week we attended a Japanese manga festival here in Madrid and I can honestly say that I’ve never felt more out of place in my life. Picture it: hundreds of cosplay obsessed Spanish adolescents dressed up in the most bizarre outfits that their ...
