A short getaway



Today is my first official day on holiday, and the weather has been lousy, with lots of clouds and a chilly wind. I was hoping spring would arrive soon...
I've sort of made a list of the things that I would like to do during this short holiday:
- take lots of good pictures
- update the blog more frequently
- cook, cook and cook
- study Japanese and Catalan
- start to eat fish (I used to hate it)
- have fun and relax

I really needed this week off, since I have been crazy-busy lately and I was starting to feel a lack of energy whenever I was at work, or during my Catalan classes. I really need to recover strength and not think about work for some days.



So, for my first day I decided to take my bike and see how life looked like from the beach. At around 7 pm there weren't many people on the beach, due to the weather I suppose, so I was able to enjoy the place. This will be one of the last times the beach will be so empty since good weather is on its way and there's really nothing like a solitary beach and grey weather....



What do you think? Are you planning something specials for this Easter break?

Snow in Barcelona

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2 posts in 2 days! Wow! Sounds promising!
I quickly took these photos just before rushing to work.
Today was special, the snow started to fall and covered the city.
Snow here it's very strange and everyone in the street was excited. I was pretty excited myself and I started calling everyone to inform about this very uncommon event.

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But also, the public transports crashed and I was sent home early from work for lack of students.
Oh snow!
I have to go and finish some translation work before midnight. So long!

Here we try again

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It's been a really long time. I didn't even started and I left it immediately.
Many things happened. Life has happened.
A new place to call home, or nest. A new challenging and strenuous job, which I like but that has been sucking my energies and preventing me to enjoy the many beautiful things around me.
For this reason, I have decided I want to try and regain possession of my time or, at least, take a few moments to breathe and nourish some passions I have.
Hence, the photo I uploaded to (re)open the blog: a few things I enjoy and make me happy on my dinner table: the yellow blooming narcissus, the newly released Joanna Newsom record I bought today (which I'm loving already) and the relaxing pleasure of sipping tea while listening to some music and watching the gray sunday weather...