Friends and traffic fiascos!

Post author By olganm
Post date April 23, 2015
4 Comments on Friends and traffic fiascos!

Here is Ailsa’s chronicle of our meeting. Thanks to her, badger and Lily for braving the traffic and getting to Barcelona. Great to catch up, talk about all things great and wonderful, and especially funny, and some plans for future chats and meets.

The Bingergread Cottage

Got to face it, I’m a country mouse. When I go to London, Badger hands me over to the Assistant Otter-Keeper, Spike who takes my hand to cross roads, ensures my shoelaces are done up and stops me running across to investigate sweetie or teddy-bear shops.

Today proved two things: 1) SatNav is way better than an out of date map which does not show one-way streets when driving in foreign cities. 2) While I have a flair for languages, I am completely useless with roads. Even as a pedestrian I can cause mayhem as I showed in Barcelona today when I used the crossing against the lights in the path of an on-coming cop on a scooter. I bowed and resisted the urge to shout “Ya big gurlie – get a proper bike” cos I didn’t know the expression in Spanish. Just as well, really. As it was he shouted…

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By olganm

I am a language teacher, writer, bookworm, and collaborator at Sants 3 Ràdio (a local radio station in Barcelona, where I returned in 2018), who lived in the UK for 25 years and worked for many years as a forensic psychiatrist there. I also have a Ph.D. in American Literature and an MSc in Criminology. I started publishing my stories, in English and Spanish, in 2012 and now have over twenty books available in a variety of genres, a blog (in English and Spanish), and translate books for other authors (English-Spanish and vice versa). In 2020 obtained the CELTA certificate as a language teacher, and offer Spanish and English classes. Writers and readers both in English and Spanish are my friends, colleagues, and allies, and after living in the UK for over twenty-five years, have returned home, to Barcelona, Spain, searching for inspiration for my stories. I also love owls and try to keep fit following fitness YouTube videos.
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4 replies on “Friends and traffic fiascos!”

Great to meet a fellow blogger face-to-face. I’ve only done it once, but it went well, and was really rewarding.
Best wishes, Pete.

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Thanks Pete. I guess you get an idea of how somebody else by reading their posts but it was a great experience.

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I’m so glad you shared this, Olga. Everyone looks so happy. Huge hugs!

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Thanks Teagan! Yes, it was great. ♥

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