Catching up

It's been a hectic, but very interesting few days mostly without Internet, so here goes.

On Monday we landed, earlier than scheduled, in Barcelona and braved the motorways (Ronda de Dalt) to make our way up to Girona (Catalan spelling), our stop for the night.

On Tuesday, I had a blind date. Not the sort of blind date that can get you into serious trouble (like I had in a previous life) but a date to meet a man that I had only ever communicated with over the Internet. I had earlier recognised Ray as the man who wrote and starred in a cult television programme called Operation Good Guys. A spoof, fly on the wall, documentary about a group of inept policemen. If you look at his bio here he has done much, much more. When he sent an invite to 'have a beer', how could I resist? We were passing near to him, on the way back from Barcelona, so a beer it was. Or, to be more precise it was wine. We started drinking with lunch at 13.00 and I finally gave up at 22.00 having lost the ability to form words correctly. It was a fascinating few hours talking about writing, producing, directing and acting in both television and films. He was great company, with lots of good stories, and he's even sent me a screenplay. He wants to do it again sometime, but next time I'll get into training first.

On Wednesday, after driving back from Carcassonne, we tidied up, picked up our 'very pleased to see us' dogs and climbed back into our own bed. In the previous 10 days we had slept in four different beds and, as usual, it was a pleasure to get back into our own.