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What an eventful week! Obivously the weekedn started with the greatest event that HAS EVER HAPPENED. Aww didn't she look nice? Wasn't it lovely? I'm glad it didn't rain. These were the insightful comments that we were discussing on Friday afternoon during that whole Royal Wedding business. I was booking a football pitch during the ceremony (take THAT monarchy!) but watched them on the balcony, there was even a cheer when they kissed. Strangely two French people were probably the most excited, should have thought about that at the time. There were British flags and even a little champagne. Let's just hope it doesn't end like the last one.

We had a little problem over the weekend. We were supposed to go to Segovia but we had an issue with train stations. We were at Menendez Pelayo and really inconviently you can't go to Segeovia from there. Rude. Rather than just go to the right station we thought it a better plan to change destination to Avila. On the bus Amy did remember that a friend Raquel had gone to Segovia the day before. Rushed phone calls, apologies and guilt (oh the guilt!) took up the rest of the journey. Fortunately she has family there so it wasn't completely terrible, but still. Poor Amy had to listen to Sean give long tearful descriptions of Raquel sitting in Segovia weeping.

Avila was very nice. It's main attraction are the Medieval walls. They built these walls and then that was about that for two thousand years. Thats not strictly true, Saint Teresa was from Avila. She is a reformer so not to exciting, they do keep her finger in the cathedral but it was closed so we missed that strange token of affection. We did see the walls though, boy did we see those walls. Work started on the walls in 1090. The fenced area is of 31 hectares with a perimeter of approximately 2,516 meters, 88 blocks or semicircular towers, paintings by 3 m. thick, an average height of 12 m. and 9 gates. It is the largest fully illuminated monument in the world. They really were some damn fine walls. Silja acted as our mother for the trip and ensured we all learnt something. The rest of day was mainly spent eating and drinking. Classy.

At the end of the last post I said the Champions League match would be huge. It wasn't, it was humilating. The two best teams in the world, and in Barcelona quite possibly the best ever, rolled, dived, cheated and whinged for the entire time. You expect it from a Jose Mourinho team but Barcelona were even worse. Alves, Pedro, Mascherano, SERGIO FUCKING BUSQUETS. It is even more annoying when combined with their "more than a club" moral superiority. I was was a little disillusioned with football but then Leo Messi just did what Leo Messi does and then everything was back to normal. He was the exception, he's just too good. Our own football has doubled to two hours, my legs are just so painful.

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