La loves Spain

Some holidays with La have been historically horrendous for reasons I may return to another time. Not this one. It may be a different country to the usual but she has everything need to complete contentment:

• Her immediate family's (almost) full attention
• A spacious space to retire to
• Satellite tv
• Car rides with 'mooosic'

What's more, she has made a new lunchtime discovery 'El menu del dia' - a cheap and cheerful three-course meal widely available here which most definitely suite her taste.

The locals get her too and she's given the bread first and enjoys all the rest - the spicy sauces, the garlic mayonnaise, the chips with everything and the delicately spiced rice pudding to top it all off!

On Good Friday she even coped with the crowds and enjoyed the religious procession of statues because they had bands and drums.

 No wonder she has a new word '(S)Pain!' which she repeats with great wonder.