I said recently that I didn’t have a tele’, that’s not entirely true. I have got one, but it doesn’t have an antenna because, well because Spanish television is crap. I wanted to see the opening ceremony of the Olympic games, but didn’t trust any of the online sites offering coverage. That was when I remembered I had some wire in a box up on the roof. So, it was a bit “Heath Robinson” but it worked! Actually, the wire coiled across one room and into the next, hung from a wall light to the window and finished life in a window box full of spider plants. But it worked.

Wasn’t the ceremony fantastic! Well, what I saw between the ad’s was. For every fifteen minutes of coverage there were twenty minutes of adverts…which interestingly were all for cars. Anyway, I thought it was excellent. Watching the athletes enter the stadium was interesting. Some country's athletes looked stately and proud, others looked like they were having such a good time and the Spanish were ALL on their cell phones! We thought it was really funny and SO typical, but the Spanish commentator thought it was shameful. I admit, I thought it was a bit much when you saw Queen Sophia and The Infanta  Christina waving at the team and they all waved back while talking on their phones, but hey, it just goes to show that NOTHING comes between a Spaniard and their cell phone!