Happy New Year and Felices Reyes Magos

New Year's Eve was spent at our flat in Madrid with Nedra, Seamus and two of his friends from Ireland, Sean and Rosin. I managed to get together a pretty good buffet with far too much food since leftovers are still taking up room in my fridge. We successfully swallowed our grapes along with the chiming of the bells and then we enjoyed many a free firework display from our balcony. After seeing in the New Year with some Cava we settled down for a marathon pictionary and charades competition which led to much merriment and downright hysterics when it came to Nedra trying to mime 'Meet the Fockers." Excellent entertainment.

Started 2007 well with a lovely curry at Guru with Nedra, Seamus, Aisling and Greg. I don't eat curry often enough here so maybe we could make this a regular thing in 2007.

Jaime and I went up to La Vid de Ojeda for the weekend for more food, drink and present giving. This time it was for the Three Kings. Jaime's niece and nephew were highly excited by the whole thing. I introduced the tradition of Christmas Crackers into the Garcia Perez household and it seemed to go down very well as everyone wore their paper crowns. After a lovely lunch I settled down to play Briska with Jaime's parents and brother-in-law. It's my new favourite pastime.