18/11/06

Hola y como estas muchachos, muchachas, cucurachas and barrachas

Well, we are currently in Madrid in Spain and we have just finished our breakfast of pig’s blood sausage, rabbit livers in paprika and onion, and kidney stew of some unknown animal, but whose kidneys look bigger than a chicken’s but smaller than a pig’s… YAY for us not knowing enough body parts in spanish to order decent tapas!!!

…Anyhows, we were going to start the blog off by saying… WOOHOO!!! Spain is now officially our 50^th country!!!

Yep… where as most people would count how their relationship is going by how many years they have been together… instead we count our relationship by how many countries that we have survived together…

So we SHOULD be out celebrating that our relationship has lasted 50 countries…

But last night after we missed out on getting tickets to see The Violent Femmes in Madrid, I tripped over on the way to a cinema and seriously busted up my ankle!!!

…AAAAAAAARRRRGH and Fuuuck a duck!!! Other than friggin HURTING and badly swelling up, it suddenly occurred to me that it is likely that I am being punished for blaspheming in Fatima. Continue reading →

6/11/06

Bom Dia to all you Portugeese and Portuganders

Well we are currently sitting in a cafe in Lagos on the Algarve coast in southern Portugal, and last week we made a very eye opening pilgrimage to Fatima in central Portugal.

Now, for all you non-Catholics out there, Fatima is considered as probably the most sacred Catholic pilgrimage site in the world outside of the Vatican since a floating apparition of Mary “that glowed brighter than the sun” apparently appeared here in 1917 to 3 sheppard children and predicted that Russia would collapse and the Pope would get shot… to which the Pope later thanked Our Lady Of Fatima for saving his life and then had the bullet moulded into the crown of a statue here in Fatima.

Not only that, but later in 1917 after the apparition promised a miracle, 70,000 people turned up in the field and witnessed a so called “miracle of the sun” where the sun twirled around, became “unhooked” from the sky, and then danced around the sky, even though it was a torrential rainstorm at the time!!!

HOLY COW DUDES… now I like a good miracle just like any other person, but the sun moving around is downright impossible, and the description of a brightly glowing orb that people can look at without going blind AND dancing around the sky in the middle of a thunder storm sounds TOTALLY like UFO phenomena to me!!! Continue reading →