Rob Colquhoun

Tomorrow is the Martyr's day celebrations at the College which is one of the most important day in the year. We have lots of guests for the Mass. We also have lots of Catholic Archivists staying and that makes the College full which is encouraging! Last weekend I went to Burgos, which has a stunning Cathedral on a par with Westminster Abbey and it is another beautiful Castilian city. Alas Jonathan and Mark have now left the College which is sad but for different reasons.

Last week we had a look around Avila on Friday, seeing the convent of St. Teresa of Avila and the Cathedral and other sites. The city has some amazing city walls along with Segovia. We had a massive steak the size of a large plate which I finished (but only just). On Segovia, about 8 of us visited Segovia where there is a Castle which inspired the Disney castle, an amazing aquaduct and overall a beautiful town. Last Sunday I watched the local football team win one-nil against another local non entity in the local stadium- its about a 24,000 seater stadium but there were about 4,000 people there and the "panceras" are down in the doldrums having been relegated two years ago. Nevertheless this win, with a header in the last minute has put them up to about 5th. This week we have had an American priest staying talking on human formation and an English priest talking on scripture. I have had to do all the readings, and I have been doing lots of reading, swimming. Yesterday I had a decent game of badminton, and discovered that you could play this game here of a mixture between tennis and squash and you hit the ball really hard and it looks knackering. We also had the Scots College Old boys come for lunch and then we had a great Thursday night in Valladolid and met some medical students who showed us the best bars.