Birthday Celebrations al estilo Spanglish

The birthday celebrations began last night with some lovely fish and chips in a British fish shop I stumbled across one day last month when I got lost on the way back from a class in the centre. The café, which goes by the apt name of Fat Tony's, serves all sorts of coronary-inducing delights to please the hoards of ex-pats and Brit holiday-makers in the Spanish capital.

After the fish and chip supper we went to Santa Ana to sit on the terrace and sup a few glasses of Tinto de Verano and open presents and generally laze about chatting and catching up. Then as the terraza closed the last men standing went on for a final drink in a bar near the plaza, which for me was a very refreshing mojito.