My Last Week Alone At The Beach.

I'm sure I told you albert's parents have an apartment in canyelles cove? They only use it for a week or so a year, so otherwise its empty. I love it. Its between Lloret and Tossa. This year I've been able to come here by my self for a couple of weeks. Its beautiful to have some alone time. Jett is in Norway, and Albert must work. All of my students are on holidays and people here abhore the idea of classes during their free time. So that leaves me- free. My skin is reaching for the sun.

Ipod Love

I must admit that I love my mp3 player, that happens to be an ipod. Its true the ipod has some functionality problems if you don't want to embrace the whole 'i' world, but it plays music and my audiobooks happily and I take it with me everywhere. Even to bed.

Grilled Vegetables

One of my favourite dishes! With romesco sauce. Bon profit!

Pigs Feet in the Supermarket

Sometimes I get a bit of a surprise in the Supermarkets here in Catalonia. The area is well know to have tasty ham, and they sell full pigs legs. Sometimes, like today, I saw all of these little pig legs up in the air, and in my imagination, they were running fast. They also have specialty shops of different types of pigs legs.

Early morning church

Its 9. I'm sitting across from the saint steven church in Granollers. There are only women coming in and out of the side doors. At first i thought it was only old women, but a few in their thirties have shown their faces too. I don't know a lot about how catholics here pray or worship. And as a side note, the girls in this bakery are very very lazy!

Plaza de Catalunya

I'm sitting in the main square. There are pigeons everywhere. Lots of people taking photos of themselves and the birds. Some people eating lunch, others just sitting and watching. Its cloudy. The man beside me is falling asleep. Some children are chasing the birds. I can hear spanish, russian, english, french. There are some boys with barςa t-shirts on.

Echoes of the Camino

So, i finally lost three toe nails as a result of walking 25 days on the Camino. This one, though it looks quite disgusting, didnt hurt. I'd been swimming at the beach, and while drying my feet, the toe nail just slide out! Rather remarkable experience.

Castell del les pinyeres

Beautiful full bouquet. Perfect wine for simple catalan cousine.