Free Weekend

Far away from the celebrations that would be going on in Valencia for the birthdays of Gloria and Agueda, I also had some fun this weekend. Nik, a german friend of mine, came and stayed for the weekend. We met up with Sophia and Rebecca and their lovely housemates for a balti (indian meal typical of Birmingham) at a local restaurant. Apart from us all drinking quite a lot, and Sophia telling a joke that nearly got us thrown out, we had some great food. We then went to a local pub for last orders where I met up with lots of people from my uni course as well. Afterwards we went back to theirs where we sat around chatting for a bit before leaving with Rebecca for a private house party, which a friend of a friend knew about :)

Saturday was spent mostly in front of music television and reading. The evening, however, was far from lazy. We started off at the local pub again with friends from my course. We stayed there chatting and drinking for about 2 hours. When everyone felt they had enough energy inside them, we descended on a club (discoteca for the spanish where club means something completely different) where they were playing rock and indy music. Despite the title most of the music was more popular than hard-core. Having never been to this club we were pleasantly surprised to see that there was lots of floorspace and there were places you could talk to each other (albeit shouting). Leaving at 2.15 in the morning we got a taxi back to where we live. Not to sleep, mind you, we went to 'Subway', a local filled roll shop. Here a special offer was on until 3am. Buy a drink for one pound and get a six-inch (15cm) roll with whatever fillings you want. So at 2.45am we promptly bought 2 drinks and a foot (30cm) of roll with various meats and salads. This was then taken back to Andy's, Griff's and Ben's where we consumed it whilst watching TV and chatting. At 4.15 we left the house and finally got to bed at 5am. 10.30 saw me wake up and watch even more music television whilst finishing my magazine. After dropping Nik off at the coach station I returned to do some more reading, washing and chatting on the internet.

The reason behind this escapade was that we had just handed in our project on the friday, and before the new one starts (this week) we wanted to be able to enjoy ourselves.

Well, I'll await more emails detailing what you have done this past weekend as well.

'til the 'morrow