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As seen on January 01, 2010
This is what I see as I look out the window of my/our room in the house in San Pedro. It’s quite the sight on the first of January. I’m used to snow and white landscape home in Sweden at this time of the year. Things are different down here at the coast of Spain.
As we were leaving Gibraltar to drive up here for New Year’s last night, we found the car battery had gone flat. Ouch. Seeing as we were in the ICC car park, there was not too difficult to find a friendly soul to aid with jump starting so we could at least get to San Pedro. This proved to me that women and cars really don’t go well together. 1 After about fifteen minutes a woman going out of the car park decided to help us. She parks in the parking lot next to us and gets out of her car.2 (You know what’s coming, don’t you?) She locked herself out of her car.
The spare set of keys got to us about two hours later by the woman’s parents. And then we were off.
But wait, it doesn’t stop there.
As we had gotten past the frontier and out of La Línea, we enter a round-about and TBF makes the rookie mistake of stepping on the brakes. 3 It was raining and the brakes on the car are unreliable on wet surfaces, I’ve been told. Boom. We go into a stall right in the round-about. Fortunately, the car didn’t realise what had just happened and we were able to continue our drive to San Pedro. It was a fairly long evening. We got to the house at about a quarter to midnight with frozen pizzas waiting to be oven-ised. 
All in all, a fairly dreary and cold New Year’s Eve.
- We love stereotypes, don’t we?
[ ↩ ] - For what reason I’ve yet to establish — supposedly she wanted to watch the cables getting connected … ? [ ↩ ]
- I remain bewildered about why he did, to be honest. [ ↩ ]
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