Welcome to the group, Pim! And I'm happy to know you had a good experience in my home state of Ohio. You have my FULL attention!! :p :p :p

Hope you feel better soon! Saludos, MadridMan

I born in India and living in Madrid......

Thanks for 'la bienvenida'. MMan you can be proud, I must say I'm no expert, but I find this site great fun and the forums the best place to practice Spanglish amongst nice people. So since it seems that a great number of you are currently overseas or at least far from Madrid(physically I mean), feel free to ask if I can be of help to anyone in providing some info, or anyway I can.

Hey Pim,


I'm a newbie to MM too, but its always great to have another española o español here.

Hey there,
Muchas gracias Michael Allen!
I thought I'd wish all the madrileños everywhere a happy long-weekend/puente. Tomorrow is the day of "La Almudena", one of Madrid's patron saints; the other is "La Virgen de la Paloma"(dove), which happens to be my name(only Paloma,ha,ha!)
Oh! and good morning to everyone waking up across the Atlantic!

Hi everyone im from Camberley, Surrey, UK but now working out here in madrid until july

Cat

I now live in North Florida, west of the ancient Spanish city of San Agústin, east of Gainesville, home of the GATORS! I hope to live in España when I retire and root for Real Madrid!

Hey, Booklady, I am a Floridian too (transplanted to Minnesota!). I'm from Jacksonville, and my parents now live in St. Augustine. I love walking along St. George Street, catching glimpses of Castillo de San Marcos along the way. I always think of Spain.

And I went to UF--go GATORS!!
Tara

Hola Taravb!
Wow, this is a small world. You can understand why I love St. Augustine so much. When I walk down St. Georges and Hypolita St. on my way to my favorite Restaurant, The Columbia, I feel like I am back in Spain. If you come down email me and we can have a MM get together at the Columbia!
Go Gators!

Hi, I'm Russ. Nice to meet you all (what a list!)

I'm originally from San Francisco, but I came out to Madrid a couple years ago to help a friend of mine with a new company, met a wonderful woman who is now my wife and so now I live here in Madrid. Lucky me! (Though I sorta miss the beach... and hot Henry's Hunan.)

My Spanish still sucks. I'm a thick-headed dork who goes to Spanish class every week (and have been for over a year. Ugh)... I'm reading Harry Potter in Spanish right now, so I guess it's improving. ;-) Or at least I can speak at the level of a precocious 10 year old.

-Russ