It's strange the things we take for granted. When I lived in Oxford it was an unalienable right for anyone to have a telephone line and an internet connection. The phone jack in the wall was your guarantee of online happiness. Then we moved to Spain ...
It's taken almost two years to get connected by Telefonica, the monopoly provider; two years of frustration; two years of using internet cafes to access online bank accounts; two years of envying those lucky people who took a connection for granted.
But strange to say, I'm not bitter; I'm just grateful to be breathing the oxygen of online existence once again.
My first blog, started in Oxford in the weeks before the move to Alcossebre, was meant to document the start of our new life in Spain as we (Wifie and I) took our first, faltering steps in a new culture - learning the language, making friends, tending our Mediterranean garden.
However there's been a two-year hiatus and it seems right to start again so, in the next post, introductions are in order, objectives will be outlined and ambitions explored: ¡hasta luego!
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