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Mercadona is the name of that supermarket I went to yesterday, I nipped back today to grab a sandwich for lunch. They have a little couple of seconds theme tune they play all the time that is just the name twice. It’s so catchy though. I actually think it’s some charts tune modified as I’m sure I recognise it. Get out my swede Mercadona!

I bought Rock Band on the iPhone earlier as it was on sale for 4 notes. It’s the most complete game I’ve played on the platform so far, a very polished console like experience. The iPhone makes a suprisingly good ‘axe’.

Today has been another washout really, I’m still knackered from the journey to get here and I think 3 months in one go on your own is enough travelling when it’s not semi-permanent (i.e. stopping at destinations for a couple of weeks or so). I’m all sight-see’d out. Also with the time of year, the hostels aren’t very busy so it’s a bit boring.

Still the next final few weeks should be good as I’m meeting mates in different places so it will be much more fun. I’m looking forward to my next destination, Madrid.

I will lull myself back into happy chappy mode and actually see Zaragoza properly tomorrow though as it’s a bit daft to come here and not. Nothing has really caught my imagination in the literature I’ve read about the city so it will just be a case of wandering about and seeing what happens.

I’ll have a little wander into town tonight too and see if I can find decent tapas or something. I like Spanish grub.

Wellington flight hunting isn’t going too well, they’re all so expensive. I might just build a raft. I think I’ve paid the 120 NZ$ for my working visa (though the status hasn’t updated to paid yet) though, I’m not sure what happens now.

While wandering around looking for scran tonight I was listening to the latest Doves album, ‘Kingdom of Rust’. I’ve listened to it twice now and am in the process of listening to it a third time round as I compose this, I’m liking it more with each airing. It’s very much a quintessenitial Doves album and as busy musically as their output always is. It probably doesn’t have the stand out singles of previous albuma but when taken as a whole, it might just be their strongest full length yet for me. Quite something when you consider their previous 3 efforts.

It didn’t work out on the food front. I really fancied seafood paella but I couldn’t find anywhere that I could make it out on the menu. I gave up in the end after a few failed efforts at trying to figure out if places were still serving food or not, I wish I could speak a bit of Spanish. I had pasta back at the hostel that I was going to have tomorrow night, so I’ll just have another bash at trying to get some genuine Spanish cusine then instead.

With regards to the photo; what it doesn’t mention is the fact that the pathetic measure you get is something a borrower would turn his snout up at.