Not everything is made for me - Brian
We were in Madrid this weekend shopping for some vintage clothes for me, I needed a good dose of 70’s wear to get ready for Halloween in San Francisco (go Bee’s! Wait for photos if that phrase makes no sense right now); we also just wanted to spend some time enjoying our apartment in Madrid (the end of an interesting story about immigration).
I’m normal sized by American standards – 6′ tall, 180-ish pounds, but by Spanish standards I’m pretty large; for the 70’s a regular giant. Sometimes this is really handy – for example I never get harassed in crowds and I can get some great sale bargains during rebajas, but when shopping for clothes it is not handy. Fortunately I found some clothes that fit, but there were not lots of choices so my style will be questionable at best in SF. As if to remind me (painfully) of this, some of the older metro lines in Madrid have handholds that go across the ceiling at roughly 5′ 10″, making it impossible for me to walk inside the train cars without ducking every 2 steps and occasionally hitting my head when the train stops fast. Ouch!
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Comments
Comment from Inés La Giganta
Time: October 29, 2008, 6:53 am
Te entiendo perfectamente… Tengo el mismo problema!!
Comment from Michael Weare
Time: October 23, 2008, 3:43 am
Hi I was surfing the web yesterday and suddenly came across your pictures of Georges Cardona attending what I assume was your wedding in Grenada, taken in December 2006. I was a good friend of Georges during the 90’s when he was living in Singapore. But we lost contact, so I was stunned to hear that he died last year. Could you tell me a little more about how he died and where he was at the time? Any information would be much appreciated.
Hope to hear from you
Michael