I thinking I’m turning Spanish…I really think so, if turning Spanish can be diagnosed by side effects such as wearing scarf and gloves when it’s 18 degrees outside, not being able to do anything but sleep between 3 and 5 in the afternoon and leaving everything till the last possible opportunity.  Since moving to Spain I’ve gotten so lazy, not that I wasn’t before – as any of my friends or family will surely tell you – but now my bone-idleness has been raised to a whole new level.  For example, it’s taken me three hours to get up to this point in writing this article!   My motivation level is lower than the weather outside right now, but post-Christmas this is going to change, my arse needs to be revved into gear.   I’ve used this last month to do a bit of travelling around Spain; firstly I took a nice little trip to Barcelona, what a city!  The architecture is so original, typified by Gaudi’s breath-taking unfinished Sagrada Familia and running through the beautiful winding thin streets that carve through the old town.

My next port of call on the ‘Alec Herron finally got paid by the Spanish government – only two months late’ world wind tour of Spain was the stunning Andalucían city of Granada, a city steeped in history, boasting the world-famous Moorish built Alhambra palace, whilst we didn’t want to pay to get in there (I’m still technically a student!) we enjoyed an awesome view of the monument with the huge Sierra Nevada mountain in the background, and went for a tapas tour of the city, one of the most memorable parts of the trip was the driving there and back, the Spanish take tail-gating to a whole new level, leaving barely inches between cars, undertaking, cutting off and slipways smaller than some cars.  My last update was following a brief period where I really wasn’t enjoying my time in Spain, but a few words of wisdom from my ever-selfless Ecuadorian house mate helped me put things into perspective “At you’re age you only have to worry about having a mentality to enjoy, the money you have enjoy, a girl here a girl there, parties, friends, just enjoy, don’t worry about anything until you get older, have a partner, mortgage, bills to pay, because then you won’t have any choice but to worry, so for now just enjoy”.