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Thursday. I have again my youngest kids here. Cutie’s eye looks still horrible and I think the man will take him to the doctor tomorrow if he’s not better this afternoon.
I’m tired and worried. And I’m so behind with everything that I feel like escaping again. Not even once it crossed my mind to face the problems and find a solution. I know that’s the way to do it, but I just don’t feel like fighting. I’m still exhausted and when I feel like this, nothing is clear. And it doesn’t mean I’ll quit. I’m just in stand by. I’ll allow myself to be like this a couple of days and then I’ll make a list and get all things done. Or at least, some of them.

Something happy now (aka escaping).
After the nice morning spent in Peratallada on Sunday, we went to another Roman town called Pals.
Pals is famous for some special rice they produce. The plan was to eat paella. Vegetarian paella. We got to the restaurant and we wanted to sit outside because the sun was amazing and warm. We got a beautiful table and the sad news that they didn’t prepare vegetarian paella. Never mind, I had a salad with goat cheese and some red wine. And also ‘patatas bravas’ (potatoes with some red spicy sauce).

After lunch, that continued with cake and a local wine called garnatxa, we took a walk around. The place was similar to the other town but much bigger and some parts were changed or restored.

You probably wonder why I take pictures where you can see more of the sky than the monument. It’s simply because I collect blue skies. One of these days I’ll post all my “Blue Skies with Detail” (the detail is mostly a part of a tree, a bird, the corner of a building or bridge, etc.). The kind of pictures that were never developed by the people at the store because they believed they were missed shots. And I had to go back and explain that where I lived my sky was always grey and I needed the blue.

We had a great time there. Later that day, there was going to be a living manger. I think it was going to be spectacular. The scenery was incredible.

I took this picture because it reminded me of Don Quixote.

Some years ago, I got an abridged version of the book The Adventures of Don Quixote just because I wanted to look for a special part in it. One of my teachers used to say every now and then: “They are barking Sancho… That’s a signal that we are riding”. Now I don’t remember if I found that part or not, I should reread it. Anyway, I love that quote even if it doesn’t belong to the book. And it’s pretty much how I feel many times.

We left the town around sunset time.

I loved the way back. At one side the sun and on the other the incredible full moon. I’m sorry about the bad pictures. I took several but none of them is really good.

I wanted to see the sea before leaving Spain, so Jordi drove me to Badalona and we had a walk by the sea lighten by the full moon.

Sunsets, fool moon, sea, nice food, special places… I need a boyfriend!!

~ by DotedOn on January 8, 2015.