new country......new start
Posted by Alia Merali Tue, 09 May 2006 10:14:00 GMT
New start - we decided to update the blog and so lost the style and maybe all my past posts but I figured its not much of a problem. Id rather lose the posts and spam comments that went with them! Well alot of things have changed in the last 6 months. To update - in December of last year we went for Hajj. The most amazing eperience of our lives. It wasnt like anything I imagined - it was so much better! Then after Hajj we made a big decision - to move to a different country - Barcelona! ZA got offered a job here and we decided to take it for a short while - for the experience it would offer us. We've now been in Barcelona from 16th February 2006 and have already been back to London twice! When we first got here, our biggest worry was getting a flat for approx 1 year, however that turned out to be the easy bit since we had done our research from home and arranged a few viewings. We found our flat on our 2nd day here. The biggest problem for us was transporting our luggage - we had 2 suitcases (28 kgs in each) and a trolley bag (12kgs). British Airways had been very kind to us considering we were only supposed to have a total of 46kgs plus hand luggage. We didnt make life easy for ourselves by renting out a flat which is on the 4th floor (no stairs) which in BCN translates to the 5th floor because the have an extra floor before the 1st! We've both been busy here, ZA started work and I started spanish classes. I can now speak resonably well, however understanding the locals is a bit difficult. Ive also been enjoying myself with getting to know the place during the day. Visiting the fresh food markets is good fun as is walking around the city finding shops for different things. On the weekend just gone we finally had our housewarming get-together! It was good fun, with a few friends, food, xbox, sheesha and scrabble!!