Well…. I find myself sat in my new house in a new town in a new country on a thursday bankholiday (the 2nd or 3rd bank holiday in the last month)… its time I updated this blog with an explination of everything that has changed and what life is like for a brit living in Spain.

Because so much has happened Im going to break this down into various parts… so here is part 1.

Part 1 – The Move
Moving to Spain is without doubt one of the most stressfull and difficult things I have ever had to organise. I cant really compare it to anything else I have done in my life. Everything that was my life in rural oxfordshire had to change or be considered. my car, my Job, my house, my music collection, my friends, my family… everything. Packing wasnt as bad as I thought, although cleaning the house of trouser was an interesting experience.

After much consideration and looking into how to move an entire life to spain… I decided the easiest way to get the majority of my crap important life items was to take them with me on the plane to Madrid. This had two distinct disadvantages and one percieved advantage. The disadvantages where that I could only carry so much (two large bags worth)… and that no matter how much/little this was I had to carry it across the center of Mardid from Barajas airport to Madrd Chamarten train station (a mere 7 miles)… thankgod for the Metro. The percieved advantage was that it would be considerably cheaper. Well… it wasnt. As I checked in at Bristol Airport I was informed by a rather disgusted Easyjet checkin girl that i was 30kg ish over my 20kg weight limit… this meant a rather shocking £179 excess bagage fee. Thanks has to go to my dad here who helped me out immensly by paying for this. Anyway… i digest.

So we got to Madrid and after a backbreaking hour or so of dragging stuff over the capital of Spain we managed to get to the train station and onto the impressive Ave train to Valladolid. This rail system really puts the english to shame… the train took 45 min was spotless… arrived on time and didnt feel like it was moving…. intershitty has alot to answer for.

So I got here safely, and despite suffering back spasms from carrying my stuff relativly unscathed.
That will do for part 1 for now… ill write some more tomorrow.

Love to all

Nicko

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Hello boys and gurlzzz… This one will have to be short and sweet, as I am sat in a smokey grotty Interent Cafe in Spain.

Friday saw me dragging my overly patriotic English backside to Bristol where I subsequently flew to Spain to start a new life in (not so sunny today ( ) Valladolid.
A brief run through of the trip follows…

(Thursday) Packing, cleaning, Packing, Drinking, Eating -Thankyou Eyston Arms- Drinking, Sleeping, (Friday)Bacon Sarnie, Driving, Airport 174quid excess bagage charge -Fuck you EasyJet/Thankyou Dad- Coffee, Flight, Dragging 60+kg of stuff across Madrid, Wrestlmania 10 whilst eating Burger King in train station, Ave train, Taxi, Sleep….

 It was ace… I will get the photo´s online at some point. Other than that life in Spain so far has been pretty sweet… keep in touch.

Luv Nx

This weekend has re-afirmed my faith in the FA cup, with a selection of good matches and upsets happening.

Manchester United went out to the might of Portsmouth after (shock of shocks) a penalty was arwarded at Old Trafford.

Barnsely having knocked out five time european cup winners Liverpool have knocked out Avram Grants Chealsea with ex Cheltenham forward Kayodi Odejayi grabbing the winner.

Bluebird Cardif City knocked out a very lackluster Middlesborough, and as I type this I await the final FA cup match of the weekend as baggie boys West Brom take on “The Gas” (a.k.a.) Bristol Rovers for the final semi final spot and a chance to go to Wembley.
So whats going on??? Are the big prem teams  not taking the cup as seriously… well if we look at Manure’s and Chelski’s teams yesterday you would have to say that they certainly are. It may be that the smaller teams (and I mean this in a loose sense when it comes to Portsmouth) are upping their game in the cup as they realise they have a chance??? Personally I just think its down to luck… there can be no other logical explination.
The law of avergaes dictates that every now and then a shock will happen (Newcastle Hereford anyone?) but to have this many in one weekend let alone one cup is amazing.

Other than that my beloved Oxford United crashed to a 3-0 home defeat to Burton Albion to leave them 15th with one or two games in hand on most around in the table.  I for one am gutted at the results since new manager Darren Patterson has taken over, and I feel there may need to be a change somewhere in the club to see some progress…. ah well.

Lv Nx