Always looking up to the sky, us humans–although it might be good to remember that those relatively harmless birds who trapse about up above for our amusement also once dominated the Earth (in the form of now extinct dinosaurs)…
Barcelona & Catalunya
Storm, tempest… and she was named Filomena…
Some 12% of the GDP of Catalunya is linked to the tourist industry. COVID has hit that part of the region’s economy especially hard–no tourists, no money. But, ironically, it also has made visits to places that are normally overrun much more enjoyable…
Sometimes you can find some gems if you take the time to go back through your old image files…
Not far from Barcelona, and just 18 kilometers (12 miles) as the seagull soars from Mediterranean waters, is an “island in the sky” that rises 5,597 feet above mean sea level. Not a bad place to find a bit of tranquility…
How bad could it be, really? Well…
“Fossa” de Mar on the Costa Brava of Spain? Never heard of it… To what do you refer, young man?
Just minutes outside of Barcelona, a beautifully-bizarre church that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an [updated] early 20th century textile worker colony, ornate modernist homes, and some nearby castle ruins as a bonus…
There is a big rock by the sea just north of the Costa del Maresme town of Sant Pol de Mar. It seems to be a sort of magnet for all kinds…
Montseny, a mountain some 90 minutes by car from Barcelona that rises to to 1,706 meters (5,597 feet) above the sea, which is but a stone’s throw away (about 25 kilometers or 15 miles, as the seagull flies)… a good choice for a quick escape from the August lowland heat…
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