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The most fantstsic weekend ever, concluded over a year's organisation and planning at it sure paid off! We had 98 Visitors from all over the world crammmed into a weekend of celebrating eating and drinking in a beautiful Masia perched on a hill overlooking vinyards and olive groves in the beautiful state of Tarragona south of Barcelona. The ceremony took place on Friday evening at 6pm after an afternoon of running around with lastminute planning and preparations, and getting ready. It was out doors in a small area with palm trees, a red carpet and some chairs on either side. I made my entrance down the steps from the small bridal hut, to the sound of "Stir It Up" by Bob Marley and we had readings and poems and a song from Stephanie in Irish to Dad playing the Uilleann Pipes, and finally when we were declared husband and wife after me accepting with a "Claro Que Si" we walked down the aisle together to the sound of Barry Louis Polar's "All I Want Is ...

So at a lovely dinner, in a gorgeous restaurant with a fabulous atmosphere, we celebrated Steph's birthday. This coincided with the long awaited "meeting of the parents" which as expected, could not have gone better. I booked for the 8 of us in a really nice restaurant suggested by Rods called el Pla (http://www.pla-repla.com/ ) which had delishous, though minimalistic food and a truly lovely atmosphere with amiable waiters. Plenty of drinks and laughs were had and it was nice for our parents to finally meet after almost 2 years!! Steph was treated to a few gifts from Kitty and Jose and even got a little candle on her desert at the end.

So I realise it has been a while since I last updated this thing, not that anyone really reads this but just incase, i will update. I have just seen my two sisters and amro off at the bus to Girona after a lovely but all too short visit from them. They came for a week and I only saw them in the evenings because I was working. The three of them stayed in my place and I stayed at Rodri's. We went out lots with my new flatmates and their friends so it was great to finally get to know them. I have been attempting to settle into a routine now that I am working, but it has proved quite difficult due to the shift work system they have in Avis. As I a result I am a bit all over the place and never seem to know what day of the week it is. The only consolation is that the office is really well situated so that I cycle into work every day along the marina and I work right oppisite where Rodri works on the other side of the marina, in the World Trade Centre and we have beautiful views. Also ...

So I am officially settling in Barclelona. I have been here for over a week taking it really easy. I arrived Saturday 28th and went straight to a Barbeque held by an Ozzie/Kiwi/Spanish/Russian/Croatian consortium amongst others on the roof-top terrace of an apartment north of Barcelona. It was lovely to arrive just in time to a party. It was to celebrate the Feria de Abril celebrated in Andalucia mainly but here they have a massive sort of Fete Forraine with a ferris wheel, and loads of little stands with long tables and food and a stage with people dressed up in Flamenco outfits dancing to Flamenco music.So we all walked up to the Forum by the beach where the festival wes being held and danced the night away. We spend the weekend chilling infront of dvds the weather was overcast most of the week and then on Friday I went to meet a friend of sorchas for a drink and hooked up with Carla from work and her friends who where over from dublin for a week and we met up with Ian a friend from ...

I am back in Barcelona after a stint in Dublin, and it is impossibly Scorchio!The current reading on the pharmacy thermometer at the end of the roads announces in flashing red that it is 35 degrees celcius! More importantly, it is humid beyond belief rendering me slower and dozier than I usually am, if that it at all possible! I had a nice visit from Blat, a native of Girona who was a house mate of Elodies in Dublin. It was great to see him and he had lots of news as he was only recently back from South America. This only made me even more determined to go there, hopefully soon. Other than that its back to the guiding for me. I will have visits from Delph and Charlotte mid August as well as my cousin Chloé and her boyfriend and there will be plenty of fiestas during the month so there is a lot to look forward to. Also, I met a guy in a nightclun at 4am while dancing. He's very cute and I feel a strong connection that I am excited to explore

Wow! Talk about a lot to take in. I arrived in Barcelona yesterday morning at 11pm and it was already scorching like 23 deg celcius or something. It is still a bit nippy in the evenings but what a contrast with Ireland. Eimear, my friend and her boyfriend Kevin met me at arrivals by car and gave me a quick tour of their lovely apartment. My bedroom is small and cosy and the window looks on to the atrium that most Spanish aparments have so you get to see everyones washing and conversations etc its actually quite nice and keeps you company. Then after something to eat I got into my bikin and we headed down to the beach. We went to Platja Icaria which is the one further down from Barceloneta and the one that is much cleaner, though you don't go swimming anywhere on these beaches cos they are full of crap. You just go there to chill on the beach and tan. I took it easy and we met some of Eimer and Kevins friends, a Norweigan couple and a dutch guy and took it easy, which was nice for m...

Well I am just back from a fabulous few days in London visiting my younger sister Stephanie. We even went on a day trip down to Brighton despite adverse weather conditions, in true O'Keeffe family style. I caught up with some friends in London did some shopping and took in a cool Andrew Loyd Webber musical "The Woman In White". Our day trip to Brighton was wonderful. We walked through the famous Laines with its quirky shops and down to the seafront on to the pier where we ate 99ers and went on the only available fairground there, a very bockety old fashiond ghost ride with cheap fluo decors but worthy of a few screams, much to the amusment of onlookers. Poor Steph didn't even get to finish her Ice-Cream,for as we reached the edge of the pier a giant white Sea-gull with a wingspan of about a metre, presumably a disgruntled extra from Hitchcock's The Birds, swooped down onto her head, grabbed the head of her ice-cream with his right claw, and fluttered on his merry ...