Chapter 1-Leaving Home

I get home from work late in the evening,I had a lot of things to
finish off before I left,I just manage to keep my eyes open so I could
grab something from the kebab shop,a large doner in pitta bread slices
of meat,with onions chillies,lettuce and lashings of garlic
sauce.
As I wait at the 25 bus stop in Oxford Street I look at the Centrepoint
building towering above me in the sky,like the old steeples of Spain
and Portugal.
My stomach was rumbling I couldn't wait any longer I started on my
kebab,I was eating it so quickly,and guzzling down my can of
coca-cola.
I arrive home 2 hours later it was now midnight,my stomach was bloated
and suddenly I didn't feel so good,'I shouldn't have eaten that kebab
so quickly,'I thought.
I open the door to my house and close it and I fall flat on the floor
of the hallway,my eyes close and I go into a dazed dreamlike state,most
people would call that sleeping,but this time,I don't know,it felt
different somehow,it felt so real,one minute I am at home and now I am
in 11th Century Spain fighting the Moors as Don Alfonso.

SPAIN-1089,the Kingdom of Castille.
"Alfonso..."An elderly lady shouts from the kitchen.
"ALFONSO...WHERE ARE YOU."
"What is it mother? I am still in bed,can't I rest,I got this really
bad headache."I shout from the bedroom.
"Well that's your own fault you shouldn't have drunk so much with your
brother last night,at least he has sense,he was up early and doing his
chores."Alfonsos' mother replies.
"And another thing..."
Before mother can finish,I interrupt her."Sorry mother I didn't hear
the last bit of that sentence."
"Of course you did Alfonso you just didn't want to hear the last part
of what I said."
"Now mother that's not fair,I do listen to you it is now is not a good
time I really don't feel so good."
"Well I'll send for the ROYAL SURGEONS THEN."Mother gives me a
sarcastic reply,I know her heart is in the right place,but sometimes I
think she is a bit mad.
As I get up from my bed I think it must be midday,I can see my brother
Diego return from the fields,farming tending the vines,it is so
dull.
"MOTHER I NEED A DRINK." Diego shouts.
"Well you know where it is can't you see that I am busy preparing
lunch." Mother says.
"Well not really mother..." Diego replies.
"God give me strenth you are as bad as your brother."
"Now,now mother that is a bit unfair don't you think..."
I listen from the doorway as I hear mother and Diego arguing,I walk
towards the window and I climb out,I saddle my horse and I started to
ride,I then realised that I was still in my nightclothes,riding at
speed to the town of Burgos and I was still in my nightclothes,that's
why the villagers were staring at me,I don't know why I was going to
Burgos but I just wanted to go just to be free for a few hours.