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I love travelling by train. I think it is (normally) the most relaxed way to travel, and you can still meet and talk to people as you “drive”. Far more interesting and you can see so much more than you can from a car.

My wife and I once made (oh dear! I’ve just realised how long ago it was!) a journey from Mexico City to Mexicali and it was an education. (I learned new breakfast habits.)

We had (you see, I’m


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(“I’m turning into a nomad”) Part Two

by Bob Fretwell (ex El Burgo, ex Fuente de Piedra, ex La Roda de Andalucia) (previously ex-Warrington, Swadlincote, USA, Mexico, Paraguay and a few others)

Six months of builders overhead and in the street, a smoking chimney, two perpetually barking dogs next door, and the imminent prospect of yet more building works have finally driven Bob and Julie Fretwell to move out of their rented home in El Burgo. Now read on…

We scanned the papers and found a


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"Our neighbours on one side owned the upstairs of the house next door and the ground floor of the house on the other side of us. Their plan (though we didn't realise that then) was to join their properties together by building over us. It took more than six months." Bob and Julie Fretwell are driven to distraction - and to move - by builders, dogs, smoking chimneys and yet more builders...
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"The highlight of the week is the closing event, where the Mayor dons a wooden bull which is stuffed with fireworks. The task for the unfortunate mayor is to run, with the bull, towards the town hall and beat the string of firecrackers to the building." Bob Fretwell takes a bemused but affectionate look at a typical Spanish fiesta.
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