Friday, January 26, 2018

Last days at Vaughan Town in Belmonte, Spain, Thu. and Fri., Jan. 25 and 26, 2018

While on a one to one in Belmonte, we came by Patricia's beauty parlor - I had to have a photo for my wife Patricia and for one of our Spanish participants, also named Patricia.


After the debates Thursday, we had some presentations - Cher works with a group of unemployed women in India and helps them make things from scrap materials.  In this case, they make these nice bags.  Cher bought seven of them as gifts for Spaniards and then held a lottery to give them away to seven lucky Spaniards.


Thursday evening, we had our last dinner together.  With the debates finished and the week over, everyone relaxed and had a nice evening meal before heading off to Bar Massimo.



After a week of wonderful weather, it rained Thursday evening - and overnight it was cold enough to produce some snow on the cars parked at the hotel.



On my walks Friday, I found some more interesting signage they have around the village and at our hotel.





And we had group photos taken, one serious and two funny - my friends who have been to Vaughan Town know all about this.




After lunch, we took the bus back to Madrid, said our goodbyes and went on our way.  It was a wonderful week with amazing people.

After checking into the Hotel NH Madrid Las Tablas for the weekend, I went back into the city center to meet with my friends of the La Tienda de las Lanas, the Friday evening English Speaking Group.  Anabel had one quiz and one game for us to use our English vocabulary.   And then it was just chatting over beer or wine and tapas.


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