Goodbye, the better part of my soul.
this is the end
of a long journey.
a journey of love
an adventure of life
a memory of closeness
One day your wings will be bigger.
One day my heart will be wider.
and one day
that empty hole in our souls will be filled with happiness again.
I haven’t been ‘home’ for 6 weeks.
When K asked me if I would like to head out for Christmas dinner, I said that I’d rather cook.
It was a glamourous meal from all perspective. I wanted to cook something that I don’t usually cook. A challenge perhaps. So here it is, the Christmas meal for 2011. Our last (?) christmas together.
I ended up even making the lemon curd from scratch. Simply because I couldn’t find it in the stores in Barcelona.
(I do want to start writing down my recipes, but cooking is such a not-by-measure thing for me…. perhaps in 2012 I will make more of an effort.)
I can’t remember the last time when I did anything by myself, for myself.
It’s refreshing to live by myself, in Madrid.
Exploring the city, going to museums, eating out, making friends.
All by myself.
Can’t remember the last time I felt this strong and brave.
The streets of Madrid filled with fallen leaves. It makes the walk to work not so lonely.
Google Translate doesn’t like my name
you know, as much as I would like to dislike this place. Barcelona is making it pretty hard for me to not love it. so easy to fall in love with this town.
August is visitor month. Hot and humid. Full of tourists. and people seem to want to visit during this time. Beach is bathwater warm. Life is easy.
I don’t know how it’s possible, but it seems that all the photos of Sagrada Familia is taken of the outside. The inside of Sagrada Familia, if not just as cool, probably cooler. Lots of angles and biomimicry structures. Unfortunately this time we didn’t get to go up one of the towers (elevator costs €1 or 2). It’s a separate ticket to be purchased after entering the compound. When you purchase the ticket they will tell you what time to show up at which elevator lineup. Usually it’s an hour wait between ticket purchasing and entering the elevator. psss. if you buy tickets online first, you can avoid the giant line for ticket. If you use La Caixa to purchase ticket (and retrieve ticket from La Caixa ATMs), you even get your own entrance.
mañana is soon enough for me.
We are never sure, if things will ever be done. On August 1st, we finally got to move into our new apartment. All these were happening in my apartment at the same time: Internet installation (step 1 of 2). Lamps/lightbulbs being installed, proper cleaning (scrapping paint and paquet dust), AC installation, and more furniture assembling. The place is finally looking more like a home.
But it was not cleaned, and definitely not ready to be lived in.
Today, 2 days later. Things are finally looking up.
One of the things about Barcelona is the Modernista architecture and tiles. Many apartments have beautiful original tiles from the turn of the century. We are completely in love with this kind of Modernista buildings and tiles. and then I found this.. Antique Modernista Tile Tables *Swoon*
It seems that there’s always some kind of protest going on regarding Catalunya independance
This is the personal collection of 