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Didn't know this still exsisted! If you haven't found us elsewhere here are the links to what we've been up to!

Opaz
Obiscoito (photos)
Catavino (wine)

Oh and a great friend: Notes From Spain

So head over and check out these great sites!

ryan

Gab communing with cattle

Gab communing with cattle
Originally uploaded by obiscoito.

Towards the end of our hike. Gab finds some friends!

a bit rough for now

but check out our new location as it grows and changes: www.opaz.net

Cien Vinos

hangingoutatcienvinos
Originally uploaded by obiscoito.

Anyone who visits us will win a free trip to Cien Vinos. Quickly becoming our favorite place to go for wine and food. This group is out roommate Janelles friends from Finland and my teacher from the Sommelier Guild. We had a good time this night and after this we headed up to a sherry bar to finish the night off in style!

GabandCircle

GabandCircle
Originally uploaded by obiscoito.

Last week Gab and I went to a park out near the airport that is huge. Not to mention beautiful when you take into account all the big scupltures. This one is concrete and behind it is a slope with a "shadow" of stone trailing down it.

Slow Travel

Granted I think we've taken this idea a bit far but I still like the gist of it!

Slowtravel

Spaceman!

spacemansalamanca
Originally uploaded by obiscoito.

Look what is carved into the facade of one of the oldest churches in Salamanca! A Spaceman! So what do you think of that!

Interview

So you ever think to yourself why don´t I....Move to a foreign country, where I don´t know the language, find yourself with nothing to do, and so you decide to start writing a food column for a travel site? At which point you think to yourself it would be fun to interview some people in the food community not taking into account that they might not speak English? Well I didn´t consider it but now I have done it.
I just finished an interview with the owner of a cheese shop in Madrid and I did it in Spanish! Now I hope the tape recorder worked that I used to tape his answers! If not I might need a second one, because I only understood enough to keep it moving along. Actually I understood a bit bore than this, but I am glad that my roommates helped me write questions in Spanish the night before. It made some of the tougher ideas a bit easier to convey.
So now I need to bribe a roommate so that they can help me translate everything, not to mention figuring out how to write an interview in the most concise way. If any of you have please pass on some advice to me!

On another note, Gab wrote a short novel yesterday about our weekend away from Madrid and then promptly erased it! So hopefully she will have a chance to try again today. I on the other hand will be updating Wino and Madaboutmadrid soon, once I get through a back log of articles. I´m finding this work both interesting and delicious, but I still need to get better at writing so that I don´t have to rely on my in house language instructor to help me edit!

Stay tuned more to come...Till soon, Ryan

Bedroom

roomstitch
Originally uploaded by obiscoito.

So I was playing with the Gimp and thought I would try to show you what our room looks like. 3 photos stitched together to show you our tiny space. The photo actually makes it look a little bigger than it is. I´m standing in the doorway as I take these!