We launched a snazzy new website in December which is an even better representation of what Pueblo Ingles is all about and what our beautiful pueblos look like. Thanks to all the lovely smiley faces of past Anglos that are featured on some of our pages, our website is now more attractive than ever! Due to the simpler navigation, visitors can inform themselves in style! However, we did experience some teething problems in the Personal Program Pages where you can do such things as apply, request a date and enter your travel details. As far as we know all of these kinks have been ironed out now but any old favourites that you have saved in Internet Explorer with Vaughanvillage in the address will be defunct. Please erase all of these links in your favourites and navigate to your desired page through our new website by going to www.puebloingles.com and then clicking on the “Are you a native English speaker?” button.

The link to the Teens website for the moment can be found here but we will be launching a new website very soon that you can link to from the Anglos home page. We still have vacancies for the Teen programs, so if you know any teenagers our would like materials to present them, please get in touch!

The morning show combines traditional style lessons with dynamic and original English learning formats such as as interviews, ‘weird news', ‘prank calls' and ‘topic of the day'. The children's evening programme is just as varied and fun with singing, character acting and role-plays being regular features.

Our hosts, Sandra and Colby, have discovered a natural talent for radio presenting and their effortless rapport makes for a silky, smooth broadcast that brightens up even the dullest mornings!

You may be native and you may be well informed about your own language, however, we'll bet that the following paragraph containing Cockney Ryhming Slang will have your knickers in twist!

You don't need too much bread n' honey for a week at Pueblo Inglés. You just pay the Condoleeza of your bat and wicket to and from Madrid and one night's Duke of Kent before the program begins. After that we sort out all your Duke, the Uncle Gus to and from your program, and all of your in the nude. You´ll need a bit of fluffy bunny for Tiddly Winks between meals and you might want a bit in the evening for some Britney Spears or another glass of Calvin from the near and far. Not much though.

Clear?............ Bobby Moore?

Hopefully you're totally didgeridooed up about the program but if you're wondering how much Captain Kirk is involved, whether you should bring your auntie ella or how much bo-peep you're going to get, why not check out our wind and kite at www.puebloingles.com . Remember to log in and check out the program information page. If you've had a butchers at the whole thing and still have an unanswered question then you can always holy grail us at anglos@puebloingles.com

We do have one important message that you really should remember. At Pueblo Ingles people come as Glasgow Rangers and leave as dinner plates. Spanish waiter!

Still in the dark? Here's the glossary:

Since you tell us so much about you it's only fair that we divulge some tidbits about us! Continuing with our regular feature of Ten things you didn't know about......let us introduce Maria Goyanes, Operations Manager.

• By February 2007 Maria will have worked nearly 1400 days as fourth in command at the helm of Pueblo Ingles ship.

• Her hobbies include music, movies, modern art & architecture and she also practices a variety of sports…….. sporadically!

• She's tri-lingual in the languages of Spanish, English and French - although she is very shy speaking French because she's worried her French accent sounds a bit prissy!

• Maria was responsible for coordinating and liasing with over 3,000 Anglos between 2003 to 2006. Her multitasking capabilities are to be marvelled at!

• Being a keen traveller she has been to Berlin, Brussels, Prague, Budapest, Paris, Malaga, Menorca, Cadiz, Valencia, Cordoba and Segovia in the past year alone.

• She's currently reading Breakfast at Tiffany's because she likes to compare books with their motion picture equivalents. ”I knew Truman Capote was famous for something!”, she giggles.

• She would love to be a rock star in her next life, but makes do with dancing ‘til her feet are blistered at all the summer music festivals.

• Maria has a quiet, trance-like approach to her work and her office buddies often jump out of their seats when she snaps out of it and switches to a bubblier version!

• She has a degree in Business and HR and minoring in Communications but her true passion is interior design. This manifests itself every once in a while when the office is mysteriously rearranged.

• Despite the office staff's bewilderment at the amount of skirts in Maria's collection, she insists that she doesn't actually own that many. But we'd bet that she could easily go two months straight without repeating a single one!

We asked you all out there to send us a poem that captures the specialness of Pueblo Ingles and a picture with a witty caption from one of your programs. Thank you very much to all the contributors, we had a bundle of laughs and some ooohs and ahhhhs in the office! We are delighted to announce that the winners of the shiny new MP3 players are; Sandra Pettigrew from Winnipeg, Canada and Joe Weisseman from Leeds, UK.

Sandra, who came to Valdelavilla in October, has signed up for another program which we are delighted about because we love Anglos that can laugh at themselves (Sandra is in the middle of the photo to the right)! Joe has participated in our Teen Pueblo Ingles three times and, as you can see below, captures it really well with this poem.