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I haven't been excited about this trip to Spain… It's not that I've been dreading it or not looking forward to it... But it feels like there's been a limiter put on my soul's curiosity this past month. I call it “The Curse Of The Freelancer” and it took a poem sent to me by my friend Summer Lee Carlson to break me from it.  

Day fifty five. Life behind the police lines in Lockdown Spain for a British couple and their three good legs cat. Today The Pain in Spain. Find out more at: https://www.thesecretspain.com Day 55 - The Pain in Spain It is day 55 of our Spanish Lockdown and Uncle Pedro has succeeded in shattering the country into tiny pieces. Some parts will move forward to phase 1 including the Basque region which jumps to moving between provinces too, I am sure it has nothing to do with the support that the Spanish Prime Minister needs from the Basque Party. We will stay in lockdown phase zero.  Despite our local health area coming up to the criteria of phase 1 we have been lumped together with the city of Granada and so our lockdown continues. It is interesting a similar province like Valencia has been allowed to split into its health authority areas and not us.  I think the reason is that the government are frightened that if they open up the coastline of the Costa del Sol and the Costa Tropical, where we live.  There will be a great wave of Spanish travelling down from the cities to their second beach homes.  They are probably right. It didn’t stop us getting very cross last night.  My friend Pilar posted a very sweary post on Facebook, we all joined in, I decided to do my swearing in English, which she seemed to appreciate, nevertheless we all calmed down enough to agree that we didn’t want an onslaught of people flooding the coast .. not just yet anyway. What it has done is to fragment Spain into pieces, where one neighbour can be living in Phase 1 and enjoy the benefits, whilst another neighbour a few miles down the road is still stuck at phase zero.. what a shambles. Day 55 and the night was miserable, it is funny how much you are affected by the outside force of government and how miserable you can wake up in the morning, even though the sun is shining. I have busied myself – the best medicine – and connected up our cat 5 network around the house.. I know that sounds beyond boring, but sitting there with a soldering iron reminds me of those far off days when I worked for Marconi and would be assembling electronics from a schematic and assembly instructions. I didn’t regret leaving Marconi or the fruit juice factory to work at Essex Radio, but I was deeply saddened when I parted company with the radio station.  I had been a freelance for over two years and the promise of a full-time job was in the end not offered, so I look around for somewhere else and wrote on spec to LBC radio in London with a list of my experience, they wrote back and offered me an interview.  So I took a rare trip to London, found the wretched place tucked in a side street in Fleet Street, by the famous Dr ‘Dictionary’ Johnson’s old house. The interview was a car crash, I think at one time I thumped the table saying that I could do the job as I already do it every day for Essex Radio.  I left with a sinking feeling. A few days later in the record library I was assisting our Managing Director, the larger than life, Eddie Blackwell, pick his Jazz records for the show I was about to record for him, when the phone rang and Jean on reception said that LBC was on the line for me.  There followed a difficult conversation in front of my boss where they offered me a job. My boss Eddie Blackwell was a kind of east end barrow boy made good.  During the 1960s he worked for a radio station called Radio London, it was on a ship anchored in the north sea and was the inspiration for Radio 1.  Radio London was a slick American sounding radio station and he was in charge of RadLon sales, bringing in a great deal of money with big advertisers like Weetabix.. a fact he reminded us all of at least once a day. He loathed the control of the I.B.A. – the radio authority who dictated when and what we should be broadcasting and also should we dare to make too much of a profit the rate of tax leapt up to something ridiculous like sixty percent.  Eddie used to say “I might as well take money we make and give it away in the street as I would pay less tax.” Day 55 and we went toilet flushing in the big house, I removed a very dead cockroach from one of the bedrooms, it had stuck to the floor, but I prised it off and put it in some loo roll. So that was my bit of exercise today, frankly I just don’t feel in the mood to do very much at all.    Oh and we have a little drip, drip leak down in the pool room, that is coming from the joint between the sump drain and the pump… we are really hoping that will not need the pool to be emptied as it costs more than 100 euros every time we do that.   Back in 1984 and I started working for LBC, my trips to London were a great adventure, I had never properly commuted, though I did travel to Southend on the bus every day when I worked for Essex Radio.   So I got to work with Donal, who was a very bad tempered Irishman who smoked a pipe, he wasn’t particularly well liked, and he smoked that really strong tobacco which filled the already cigarette blue air with a yellow pipe fug.   There were quite a few Engineers who didn’t like Donal or his pipe smoking, once when he went to the toilet they filled his pipe with marijuana and that sent him berserk and then he went fast to sleep for the rest of the day.   Somebody else super glued his pipe to the wall, - he used to leave it propped up against a shelf, that again was less funny than it sounds. As when he tried to pull it off the wall the notice board it was stuck too came away from the wall and struck him on the head.   On the first day he introduced himself “I’m Donal and do you know why I hate the …”. And then he used the ‘N’ word, quite openly and went on with a long diatribe about black people being less than white.   He was a fairly incompetent engineer, I remember once Lisa Hampele who went on to work for the BBC, had tried to send him audio down the line from some far flung part of the Empire and Donal had forgotten to hit record, then she got flustered and her crock clips fell off.. in those far off days you had to unscrew the telephone handset and put crocodile clips of the mouthpiece connections then connect your tape recorder.   It all turned very nasty and we have a recording of her telling him to F – Off, which he did by cutting her off and her story never got to air. Everybody had a story to tell about Donal. I made a decision to get out of that department as soon as possible, I gave it six months and then I would move on.   Day 55 and the best we can hope for is that the Spanish Government realises what a muddle it has turned the country into and re-considers its decisions, it is very disappointing that they treat the Spanish like children but then if you look at the way some people have ignored social distancing in the UK.. you can hardly blame them.          

This is the last episode of season two. It's been a wonderful season full of personal refresh stories from our members. If you've ever thought about radically changing your life and fulfilling that need to travel or move away you're in luck. First up we have Lynn Strough, who lived the conventional life of wife, mother, and working in a cubical. After a divorce and job layoff she took the opportunity to forge a new path and travel the world on her own at 56. Then we'll hear from Elizabeth Quintal a Houstonian who was ready to leave Texas for somewhere and chose Madrid as her new home. But she didn't come alone, it was a family affair, she moved here in her 30s with her husband and son. What We Discuss Life after divorce and a job layoff What it's like to hit refresh in your 50s Facing agism in the workplace Taking life on the road for 4 years as a solo traveler How to travel on a budget What's it like to stay in a hostel Leaving the American dream behind for a better life abroad What it's like to move abroad with a family Moving to Spain without knowing Spanish What are the best parts about living in Madrid What has been the most surprising thing about moving to Spain It's about the journey not the destination About Lynn At age 56 after a perfect storm of job layoff, divorce, and giving up her home, Lynn hit refresh by selling almost all of her possessions and taking off with just a backpack to travel around the world solo on a shoestring for a year. This morphed into almost 4 years! She has house and pet sat, stayed in hostels, even couch surfed, in 15 countries, from Australia to SE Asia, to Eastern and Western Europe. Currently, she's back in her home state of Michigan after my daughter had a baby. While she's not sure when, she's pretty sure this won’t be her permanent landing pad, as wanderlust runs through her veins. Read more about Lynn in our Member Spotlight. Follow Lynn on her website at Travellynn Tales and Facebook and Instagram. About Elizabeth Elizabeth Quintal is a coffee fueled wife, mom, writer, photographer, and small business owner living in Spain. She is the co-founder of The New Antiquarians, a photography studio based in Madrid, believing deeply in the power of storytelling, being adventurous, and capturing the everyday magical moments. And when she’s not with her camera or chasing her son around a playground she’s working on her first book of poetry. As a passionate dreamer, lover of the journey called life (even the messy) she uses the lens and the pen to tell her story, help others share theirs, and amplify the stories overlooked, untold, or forgotten. Connect with her on her website The New Antiquarians and Instagram @thenewantiquarians and @elizabethmquintal Join our She Hit Refresh Facebook Group, get more tips and advice on how to hit refresh on our blog and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Capila de San Marcos, Monte de Gozo, Spain It is the last day for our hike. Twelve miles to go from Pedrouzo to reach Santiago. It seems like we have just started on this journey with friends I’ve known all my life. I know that neither is true: this is the fifth and last day of our hike and I have just met these amazing people a little over a week ago. As always we started the day with a prayer as well as a special admonition from Bishop Doug Sparks. We will pass a chapel at about the half-way point that is at the Monte de Gozo (Mount of Joy). This is where we can catch a glimpse of Santiago’s Cathedral and are only about 6 miles from our final destination. Bishop Sparks encouraged us to note our cares and concerns in those first 6 miles and then to stop in the Chapel of St. Mark (Capila de San Marcos) and leave all our cares and concerns there. We should come out of the Chapel with the understanding that Christ has already carried all our burdens for us. We started with a fairly large hill and by 11am I found myself walking alone again. I remembered what Bishop Sparks had said, and I spent the morning re-tracing my life, identifying the idols that I have never been able to shake. Topmost of those idols for me are a longing for a loving family and an unhealthy approach to food/weight. I’ve made very poor decisions when I put these idols ahead of God.As I approached the entrance to the Monte de Gozo, I recognized Bishop Carlos Lozano and Carol Aves, two members of our group who were touring UTO grant sites. It was good to see someone I knew after walking alone for hours. They said I was the first hiking pilgrim they had seen, but I said that it wasn’t possible: there were at least 6 people who had started out ahead of me in the morning and were walking faster.I went into the small Chapel of St. Mark where a handful of people were kneeling and praying with candles flickering in the light breeze. It was cool and calm and I felt a need to take in the essence of the chapel alongside these strangers in the pews. I remembered Bishop Sparks’ morning words and I named the idols that I had worshiped in my life. They had been family, food, success, work/career acknowledgement and financial success, and I realized how they all were in a competition in my soul to try to crowd out Christ. I vowed to guard against the idols that had trapped me from doing God’s work, and lit a candle to seal my commitment with an outward sign of my sincere devotion.I left the chapel and again saw no one that I knew. The Grant site pilgrims had left and I didn’t see anyone from our group hiking, so I started afresh knowing that I had about 6 miles left to reach my final destination.With my head and heart empty, I thought back to writings from St. John of the Cross. In these last few miles to Santiago, I experienced that third dark night described by St. John of the Cross.As I started the descent into Santiago, I no longer desired anything but to keep walking toward my destination, and I identified my destination was to be in union with God. St. John says that it is experienced as the dawning of a new day where the soul has been transformed through God and love has been accomplished.I kept walking and no longer cared where anyone else from my group was or how much further I needed to go. I was confident I was on the right road and that with strength and endurance, I would eventually reach that third night.The Grant Site Pilgrims were waiting for us one kilometer from the Cathedral of St. James. I saw Lynette, JoAnne and Carol as they exclaimed that I had made it and that I was the first one. “But I can’t be first, there are at least 6 ahead of me.” But it didn’t matter. Walking alone for the past 3 hours I was able to experience that union with God.In the book, Find Your Way Home by Episcopal Priest Becca Stevens of Nashville, the 18th chapter is titled “Walk Behind”:“On the Spiritual path we are not asked to walk side by side as friends. We are asked to walk behind our God.We are called to learn what servanthood means and to follow our spiritual path…To walk behind means that I need to follow. It means I can share new ideas, give hope, and open my heart. If I walk behind, it means that I can look ahead and see the faces of my sisters looking back at me. I can see them smiling and laughing with great joy. I can imagine that one day it will be my face that is looking back, giving hope to someone who is walking behind…As I walk behind, I realize we all are walking behind a power greater than ourselves.” As I finish my Camino I know that it is God that I am walking behind, and no other person or thing can take the place of my heart’s union with God.Blessings, my friend,Agatha

Welcome back to another episode of From the Left Hash. This is episode 35. We've got the usual people, JJ, Mouth from the South Ernest, producer Brandon "The Hard Hat' Mitchell. Daryl is out on a scouting assignment, in his place is long time listener, first timer in studio, Eric ( Last name redacted to to protect the innocent).  On tonight's show we got alot packed in. Starting off with the college World Series. How bout them Vanderbilties?! The guys recap the game and drool over the pitcher who is rumored to come back to college next year and not go pro.  What did you think of the Women's World Cup game: US v. Spain? It may have come down to penalty kicks but was it ever exciting!  Baker Mayfield is in the Austin area giving a football camp, and is apparently talking smack about the University of Texas. People are evening saying he is teaching the kids in camp how to properly do the hook 'em horns upside down.  If you had to pick your QB for the next 10 years, who would it be and why. Let us know on our facebook page.  Yankee set a record wit h28 straight games with a HR hit. This doesnt happen very often and is kind of a big deal.      If you like this show be sure to head over to facebook and give us a like and/or a follow. You can also subscribe to Emergency Exit Podcast to get this and many other shows and bonus content.  https://www.facebook.com/Lefthashsports/

In this episode we'll be speaking about avoiding repetition. Not saying 'thank you' all the time or repeating expressions like 'How are you?' Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  Listener Feedback: Fransisco from Granada Voice message - good news! Francisco Espínola from Granada passed his FCE exam! Thanks for your comments, Francisco. Wonderful pronunciation and not one mistake! Itunes reviews thank yous to everyone who has taken the time to write a short for us. It's because of you that we are one of the best podcasts for learning English in itunes - the most visible. chuspo from Spain Merak.kain from Mexico rrg01 from Mexico Sirihus from Spain ("It's the best podcast I've ever heard and you are a perfect couple, doing that everything flows so perfect and easy") Mcorrea2004 from Spain Alvaroscali from Spain Comment on the website from Rafael: Hello Reza and Craig, very interesting this episode speaking about drugs - Episode 118  http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/08/28/drugs-and-addiction-airc118/   Me ha gustado mucho todo lo que comentáis. Lo ha hecho como siempre, muy bien. Hablais de las adicciones en las que se toman algunas sustancias químicas, pero habéis pasado por alto una adicción muy potente que es la "ludopatía" o la afición por el juego, (ya sea cartas, lotería o las máquinas tragaperras - slot machines, fruit machines, one-armed bandit) Muchas personas se enganchan sin tomar ninguna droga, Es curioso como la química del cerebro crea sus propias sustancias para que la gente quede muy enganchada de personas que lo han perdido todo, sin tomar absolutamente ninguna sustancia química. También he recordado una canción de John Lennon, que se llamaba "Cold Turkey" ahora ya sé lo que significaba, "el mono". Saludos, Rafael. to gamble - apostar, jugar If you're struggling to understand this podcast: Nuestra tienda de descargas: http://store.mansioningles.net/  Voice message from Elisa from Finland - She hates dependent prepositions! Time flies and the show must go on. Hi, this is Javier from Tolosa. One question, please. Episode 119 - http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/09/04/getting-dressed-and-undressed-airc119/  What do you wear for work (usually – as a habit) You always say that after preposition goes -ing, then I do not understand "...for work", why it is not "... for working" or "What do your wear TO work" Thanks for helping me. A hug. Javier González Tolosa (Gipuzkoa) PREPOSITION + ___ing VERB But also PREPOSITION + NOUN/PRONOUN eg. What do you wear for/to work. CORRECT. “For” or “to” are prepositions and “work” is a noun. “Work” can be a noun or a verb. Voice message from David Martinez, Alcoy. FCE September. FCE practice: flo-joe.com: http://www.flo-joe.com/fce/students/index.htm  Exam English: http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_listening.html   Cambridge English TV: https://www.youtube.com/user/cambridgeenglishtv   Mansion Ingles 60 hour FCE course: http://www.mansioningles.com/cd_first.htm  Level test on the website at mansioningles.com http://www.mansioningles.com/First_cert.htm   How Not to Repeat Yourself in English Saying ‘Can you repeat that, please?’ Alternatives: Sorry? Sorry, I didn't get/catch that. Sorry, what was that (you said)? I'm afraid I don't follow (you) (formal) Come again? (informal) saying 'hello' and 'How are you?' Alternatives: Alright? What's up? How's it going? How are you doing? How are things? 'bout you! (Belfast greeting - 'How about you?) Ey up! (Greeting in the North of England) Whatcha! (What you) Saying 'Thank You' Alternatives: Thanks Cheers! Much appreciated I owe you one Many thanks Thanks a bunch Saying 'That's very, very good' Alternatives: That's amazing, fantastic, unbelievable, wonderful, awesome, out of this world! Saying 'That's very, very bad' Alternatives: That's terrible, awful, horrible, disgusting Saying 'I'm sorry' Alternatives; I'm really/very/extremely/so sorry I apologise I can't apologise enough Please forgive me It won't happen again! ...and now it's your turn to practise your English. Do you have a question for us or an idea for a future episode? Send us a voice message and tell us what you think. https://www.speakpipe.com/inglespodcast  Thank you for all the voice messages you sent during the summer. Please keep sending them. It takes 3 or 4 minutes and we love receiving them. Send us an email with a comment or question to craig@inglespodcast.com or belfastreza@gmail.com. If you would like more detailed shownotes, go to https://www.patreon.com/inglespodcast  We need $100 Our lovely sponsors are: Lara Arlem Carlos Garrido Zara Heath Picazo Mamen Juan Leyva Galera Sara Jarabo Corey Fineran from Ivy Envy Podcast Manuel García Betegón Jorge Jiménez Raul Lopez Rafael Daniel Contreras Aladro Manuel Tarazona On next week's episode: Phrasal Verbs with TAKE and GET (request from Ivan Ballester) And now, as promised, let's hear from Mónica Stocker from El Blog Para Aprender Inglés Supera la barrera del INTERMEDIATE y consigue ser un ADVANCED El curso FITA, de Mónica Stocker, es un curso completo de inglés, especialmente diseñado para hispanoparlantes de nivel intermediate que quieran llegar a ser advanced. ¡Apúntate ahora al curso GRATIS de 4 días y llévate un audio-libro de regalo! http://intermediatetoadvanced.com/pages/4-days-free-english-course  The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called 'See You Later' Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/