Report on activities of La Gorra

As our sweet home has only the internet of the neighbours, the access to the virtual world has been limited. Though, we have been at home only to sleep in our cama de matrimonio (the 120 cm bed that we're sharing in our tiny room) so there wouldn't have been too much time to enjoy facebooking etc. anyway. Now writing from an expensive internet cafe. (Everything in Santander is mas o menos expensive.)

Short news on activities of "La Gorra":

Last weekend La Gorra participated the craziest fiesta of Spain, San Fermines. It was raining, so La Gorra couldn't sleep in a park or in the middle of a roundabout as was planned, but was forced to party all night long until the encierro (escaping the running bulls), that happens every morning at 8 o'clock. ¡Que locura!

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday La Gorra was looking for a job for us. From 10 am to 4 pm walking from a restaurant to another and fighting against Spanish bureaucracy. In the afternoon La Gorra took a siesta at one of the increadibly beautiful beaches of Santander and a swim in The Atlantic Ocean. At night again from bar to another to looking for a job.

On Thursday La Gorra was telling us that it seems to be too late to find a job at one of the casetas de Feria de Pinchos (little kiosks run by the restaurants of Santander that serve pinchos), as the Pincho Market was about to start the next day. Then suddendly La Gorra happened to be at the right place at the right time...

...the staff of the restaurant La Créperie . G had been so busy running their restaurant and the two casetas de ferias in different cities, that they didn't have time to call the people who had left their Curriculum Vitae's to get a job that they were offering. We think the owners (an French-Argentinian couple) were really lucky to find La Gorra in front of their caseta on Thursday afternoon. In five minutes we were employed. Half an hour later La Gorra travelling in a van towards Vitoria of Basque Country with Lydia, and Simone was working as a waitress in a real restaurant La Créperie . G.

On Thursday night La Gorra spent 7 hours watching Lydia trying work in a caseta de Crépes at Feria de Naciones in Vitoria. Wasn't too easyto watch her fooling around with huge cans of pancake batter.

For afterwork enjoyment La Gorra found the "perhaps the most talented drummer of his generation", Lewis Nash and his trio, who happened to be on stage at The Jazz Festival Of Vitoria. Dead tired Gorra spent her night sleeping like a log with the staff of La Créperie . G at the house of a Basque chico called Iker.

On Friday afternoon La Gorra was happy and relieved to return in Santander to meet Simone again.


...to be continued...