Uhlfelder News

March 13, 2008.  Wow, what a day.  Nothing happened.  I did manage to plan another two days of our Easter break (Semana Santa) which is the Saturday and Sunday on the way back from skiing.  Here’s the thing, it’s high season, we need two rooms (if anyone wants to sleep — David snores loudly and […]

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March 6, 2008.  I forgot what, if anything, happened. March 7, 2008.  Again I met John Barkley, who introduced me to a guy who supposedly was interested in an “intercambio” or exchange of English lessons for Spanish lessons.  Turns out that he and John were huge friends and they couldn’t keep their hands off each […]

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February 28, 2008.  Today started like any other day, I thought.  I woke up, crack of Noon, and rolled out of bed.  I was sick in the night and there was vomit everywhere.  I barely remembered what must have been a bender the night before, but on seeing myself in the mirror, I knew that […]

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February 21, 2008.  I invite anyone reading this to submit changes/improvement/ideas for the www.barcelonasabbatical.com.  Let’s both make this a fun project.  I’ve spent a few hours correcting my programming errors and such, but otherwise just wrote it off the cuff.  I think this should be the information source for everyone planning a sabbatical in Barcelona […]

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February 14, 2008.  Bruno and I went to ski today.  He wanted to show me some of the really off-piste stuff they have around here so we went to Courmeyeur with the plan to ski a couple of couloirs off the Funivie Monte Bianco at 3462 meters and then ski back to Chamonix.  The first […]

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February 7, 2008.  We met the Edgerly family (minus one daughter) tonight for dinner.  They are here from Aspen, visiting with their daughter attending college for a year here and perfecting her Spanish and learning Catalan, the language of the region here.  It was really fun for me to see Stuart, about the nicest guy I […]

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January 31, 2008.  I’ve had a nasty something that seems like a sinus infection for 11 days and I’m sick of it.  Green flem, sinus pressure, etc… I wanted to see if I could get rid of it without drugs (antibiotics) and make sure it wasn’t a virus.  No such luck.  So off I went […]

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January 24, 2008.  Today the family went to the German Consulate here and acquired German citizenship.  We are now dual citizens of the US and Germany.  We managed to take care of this, which with some foresight we would have done years ago, with the help of our friends in Germany, Jahudi and Stefanie.  This […]

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January 17, 2008.  Today was the last day of skiing with the group.  We had a veterinarian here to inspect the property/ski resort for a group trip coming up in TWO YEARS.  He was pretty nice and I skied with him for the day.  We had powder that turned into cement by the end of […]

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January 10-11, 2008.  The missing days. January 12, 2008.  Today my new job as a group escort for ski trips started.  With a bang, after one of the people I met at the airport had a bag stolen out from under our eyes.  Amazing since everyone was sitting with the luggage, and his bag disappeared.  […]

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