For some reason i didn't get this email until today...so here is part two, as promised...(edited by julie)
Please try and get a picture in your head of a very 'downtown' area; the cars are all very old and would not look out of place in a breakers yard at home - they all have bits dropping off, bits tied on with string and bits just hanging there! they also all sound terrible. the buses are much the same - old and tired. In the midst of all this are 2 very smart white mercedes benz trucks each having cost 10´s of 1000s USD, both broken down and one, mine, being towed not by a "MOG" but by a pre-war tractor!! what a showing up!
. i was towed to the camp site. I think I told you that the engine battery had died, the site manager got a guy to come and help. The first one he got me was too big to fit in the hole left by the old one!! he then took my dead battery and came back with one the same, they were very excited that it was a premiere battery in the UK!! I then had great trouble with my lesiure batteries, I thought I had a real problem, but it was me being too impatient and not understanding, I emailed Ian and he sent a nice email back. I have used my jenny, it is winter here so we only have 3 or 4 hours sunshine and it is weak winter sun, but now they are back to normal and all is well
The campsite is in a suburb of BA we cannot really get a taxi into town, so have to go by bus. the bus goes all through the houses and little streets so takes a long time, the streets are full of rubbish - I have never seen so much; in fact I think some of the houses are built of rubbish! We have to change at the terminus for a number 28, only there are at least 8 number 28´s!! they all stop at a differet bus stop and all go to a different place!!
fun on the first day but sussed now. the first day we came home on the bus as well it took 3 hours! the buses were full with people hanging out of the door when they set off, we were tired, it was a night mare. Janet said 'it was an experience' Peter and I said "been there, done that, taxi next time" which is what we do now - bus in, taxi out.
We have been on a bar crawl!! looking for old style bars, drinking cocktails and eating tapas. it was great we had a wonderful time and ended up in the oldest bar in BA. they have tango dancing in a separate room there, but we will wait untill the others get here for that. but us 3 had a brill night. came home a little tipsy!! (note from ed. those that know mum might find it hard to believe that generally on the road she is tee-total).
On Sunday night we went to the opera at the Colon Theatre (note from ed. do we think it really is the 'colon theatre'? or an example of mums word blindnes?, answers on a postcard) to see "Barber of Seville" it was very good , modern, but I thought done very well (I do not know what my purist friends would think). the music and singing were beautiful but the seats were CRAP. but it was all we could get.
when we came out we were the targets for a scam 
.when we went into the restaurant I thought janet had been struck by bird poo, then Peter had what looked like sick all over his back pack. he went to the bathroom, I had a wipe and Janet cleaned her coat and went to clean her hands. when she came back she had had to wash her skirt - it was all down her. then Peter came back but had to go again because it was all down the back of his jacket! it did not smell, but looked like sick! then the waiter told us it was a scam, you are sprayed with a concoction that looks like sick, then some one will come and 'help' you clean up and rob you whilst helping, but we went into the resturant and spoilt their game 
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