these days, I’m spending my time with a few interesting characters who are taking up an increasing amount of real estate in my brain. one of them is an octopoidal monster. another is an aging hippie named Spring. there’s also Isobel, a slightly naive reporter. and the most dastardly of the bunch is the mastermind [...]
yesterday I saw my old job advertised in the paper. It felt rather strange.
empty voices fill the space around me a white noise blanket
I realised today that I started telling a story about the two american girls that were staying in our hostel, and didn’t ever post the end. I am going around saying that I want to be a writer, blah blah blah, and I don’t even finish the stories that I start! going to put an [...]
what do you do with your life? when pandemics loom amidst energy crises and global unrest. what do you want to be? when all is said and done you’ve grown up a stately oak. who are you right now this very moment?
Our photos from Barcelona are up, if you’d like to have a look.
I’m working on getting our holiday photos online, so in the meantime here is a closeup look at the benches in parc guell… these broken tiles and mosaic work are characteristics of the most famous architect in Barcelona, Antoni Gaudi. He is also known for flowing, sculpted lines and fanciful shapes. I kept expecting gingerbread [...]
we’re off tonight to see a festival called “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, which is being held in a park on montjuic. since we couldn’t really read the flyer, we haven’t much idea what we’re about to see, but there’s music and it’s free so why not. a full update will be coming soon, and [...]
3pm today, barceloneta beach, 22 degrees celcius and sunny. ah, the meditterranean! we’ve been in barcelona since thursday, and have really settled into a pleasant routine of a chilled out morning, touristing in the afternoon, cooking dinner on the cheap in our hostel and then going out for a drink or two to one of [...]
