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Rain, Rovers, and Running with fire!

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I am sure some of you will be pleased to know that I am looking our my Barcelona window and seeing some good Scottish Rain!!  Last week in my wee part of Barcelona we had our civic week style celebrations, which as you can see involve running with fire and some wee devils!! Enjoy a blast from the past this week with an old one from last years "Letters from Barcelona" PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MATCH DAY PROGRAMME "Letters from Barcelona" I am sure some of you will be pleased to know that this week in Barcelona we have had “Scottish” style weather for a few days. At one point I thought I would getting the animals to go into the ark two by two. I had not seen rain like that in a long time. But I told the locals that 1 day of rain is nothing!   However it has caused me a few “fashion” problems. I have been able to wear, and had to in some cases, wellies, full on wet weather gear, flip flops, sunglasses, and scarf… I am sure you get it. Roll on su

Barcelona, Birthdays and beer gardens

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Gosh it seems like ages since I have been on a computer. I have not tweeted for yonks and my paella and bovril is most definitely cold. However I have just turned 30, done 3 cities in 50 odd hours and watched a Rovers match. But that is a whole other "Paella and Bovril"  This weeks post is we bit special to me as it was the first one I got to see in the match day programme! I made a wee trip up to Kirkcaldy (then to London and beer garden) to see Raith play.  This post was first published in the match day programme from the 10th of September Raith 0 - 1 Dundee PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MATCH DAY PROGRAMME. A prickly time for football Paella and Bovril Hola Stark’s park I am hoooommmmeee!!! Touch wood, all being well, and fingers crossed, I am in the building with a large chunk of my family celebrating my 30th birthday and I could not think of a better place to be, Camp Nou versus Stark’s Park, the result would always be Stark’s Park! But if you listen to

Goodbye 20s hello Stark's Park!!

EEEEEKKKKKKKKKKK I am a little excited! I am going to see my beloved Raith this weekend and I can not wait. A live action match is the best thing ever! And of course I will be celebrating my 30th Birthday with my family at Stark's Park!! I hope it will be a little better than the match I watched on Saturday just gone. Well if I am honest it was not Scotland I was disappointed in but the ref...... Any way lets not dwell on that and look forward!!  I though that this "old" one from last years "Letter's from Barcelona" might make us a wee bit more positive! Today's post comes from the match day programme  Raith Rovers v Ross County. PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MATCH DAY PROGRAMME Letters From Barcelona Before November 2007, upon landing in Scotland, signs that said “the best small country in the world” welcomed you.  Every time we passed this, my partner would say, “Why say small, why can’t we just be the best?” A work mate before the match on