Hello! Nearly two weeks later, I am still having loads of fun over here :)

I spent my last week end in Santander with jaime, another archaeologist who was here the first two weeks. We went there by bus, it is approx. a 90 minutes drive. There we found a pension, which is something between a youth hostel and a hotel: very cheap, and very nice :) In the evening we met Juanma, a guy that was going to come to Aguilar two days later. Jaime and Juanma knew each other from the previous year - it was a very long night... I had to leave them after the 3rd bar at 3am :( I´ve probably seen most of the heavy metal pubs in Santander though :P

The excavation is doing well, we found the remainings of a wall; we also found the skull and many bones of a bull, larger pieces of pottery, small pieces of iron... This keeps people coming up from town happy, as we still welcome several people or group of people every day.

More people also arrived, we are now 12 (which is a lot compared to the 4 we were at the end of the second week).

I don't really know why, but it seems most of the diggers here are heavy metal fans (girls included). We got one guitarist and even a singer ;) Motorhead is the most played group in the invincible and mythic "heavy metal car". This also means a lot more animation in our local pub, to which we go nearly every evening; it's a little bit like "our" place, as we are the only ones there 90% of the time :)

The site is still so wonderful; the other day, the whole valley was completely drawning in fog, but the site was above it, which left us with this amazing view.

We welcomed this tuesday people from the local newspaper. I think they enjoyed what they saw, cause we did the frontpage the day after! Cynthia and myself were described as "experts from the University of Oxford", which makes me think I must have made good progress with my 2 weeks of experience :P

This week end, I left Aguilar de Campoo and drove to Madrid with some other archaeologists leaving here. I spent friday visiting Madrid, just walking around without map and getting lost in all the small roads in the town center. The city is amazing, very colourful, friendly and full of life - I really loved it. Not sure about what I will do today, but I definitely want to see the modern art museum which is just a 2 minutes walk from the place I am staying.

I hope you are all having a good time in Oxford as well - I will be back soon :) (still need to find a place to live though).