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Coco
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The house goes on the market this Friday and Victor and I are exhausted from painting, cleaning, de-cluttering, landscaping and generally running ourselves ragged. Keep your fingers crossed that the housing bubble doesn't pop in the next 48 hours. roll eyes
We've got the third international moving estimators coming at the end of the week. I was jerked around by the Madrid office of our firm for a while with the "possibility" of a position in June. Now it's "call us when you get here."

Tell me about the enchantments of Spring in Madrid. During the telediario this weekend, we both looked at each other and swore we'd be buying books and giving roses this time next year.
 
Posts: 60 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 01 November 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
schwendy
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Um, don't know if this is what you are looking for, but it's 11:15pm and it's 70 degrees outside. In April. Everything is super green because we had a good day of rain on Saturday, when it wasn't opening into gorgeously clear sunny skies. Looking out my windows, I can see that the terrazas below me are all full of people. At 23:15. On a Monday night. big grin


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Posts: 321 | Location: NYC to Paris to Madrid!!!!! | Registered: 21 August 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
madsue
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big grin That sounds idyllic, especially as I am sitting in Lanzarote and it is dropping out the sky!!!! It is still preferable to anything else I know, though I would prefer your view at the moment schwendy!!!

Coco you're nearly there big grin


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mariposita
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Coco--
What can I say? We were in the exact same situation of home improvement hell (always for strangers, never for ourselves) two years ago...

Madrid in the spring:

Terrazas, geraniums in windowboxes, red poppies and wild flowers growing like weeds around abandoned lots. Kids playing in the playgrounds until 10:00.

Goodbye to cocido, roasted chestnuts. Hello to horchata and gazpacho. Melons, strawberries, soon cherries and apricots. Helados and cafe con hielo.

The slow undoing of winter ambitions. Alpargatas and sundresses. Persianas and toldos. Long Saturday and Sunday afternoons under the trees...
 
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Coco
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Here in Chicago Spring is daffodils and tulips and crabapple trees that are like puffy clouds of white and pink.

Of course today it's 40 degrees and rain mixed with hail, but still.

Tinto de verano - I can taste it now. smiler
 
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