What I did on my birthday
Jan. 29th, 2008 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebnessGracias a todos for the birthday wishes!
I had a really nice day yesterday, despite now being decrepit and cranky. There was only one cure for the birthday evilness...
I had a really nice day yesterday, despite now being decrepit and cranky. There was only one cure for the birthday evilness...
Yes!!1 Francia always makes things better. Except if you're a king, sheesh. Anyway, I went to France in the morning and visited a gorgeous little village to soothe my fragile 27-year-old soul, before returning to Barcelona for tapas with my friends.
Around Enveitg. I was a real nerd and listened to the OST to Howl's Moving Castle as I wandered about. Granted, it's not Alsace, but it still suited the music. :)
I want to live on this street! It's like a Hovis advert, except French.
Anyway, that was a pretty rad birthday! :D
I was going to go to Tarragona or Ripoll or summat, but I thought if I was going to sit on a train, it may as well be for something really neat, so I chose Latour de Carol and Enveitg on the French-Spanish border.
I began to doubt the awesomeness of my idea when the lovely Spanish sun gave way to snow and ice. It's colder up north! Who would've thought it? :p
All was good, though. I am always so happy when I see ze French signs and know I have arrived in my favouritest place evah.
I began to doubt the awesomeness of my idea when the lovely Spanish sun gave way to snow and ice. It's colder up north! Who would've thought it? :p
All was good, though. I am always so happy when I see ze French signs and know I have arrived in my favouritest place evah.
A memorial plaque for the Republicans who passed through Latour during the mass exodus of Catalonia after Franco's triumph.
Around Enveitg. I was a real nerd and listened to the OST to Howl's Moving Castle as I wandered about. Granted, it's not Alsace, but it still suited the music. :)
Why do trees and mountains make me so happy? I DUNT KNOW. But I love them. >:D
I want to live on this street! It's like a Hovis advert, except French.
The old church. Alas, it was shut.
O hay, a cemetery! I personally think spending one's birthday looking at graves is a healthy pastime. It was no Pere-Lachaise; most graves only dated back to the 1930s, but there was a civil war monument there..
Spain: To the victims of Nazi-Fascism, martyrs of freedom.
This was poignant because the mountains over in that direction are those of the Spanish border. This was the cost of standing up against Fascism, the cost of trying to protect what the Republicans held dear and yet so many people are rotting in unmarked graves around Spain, forgotten. Spain had (perhaps still has) a dirty pact, a policy of forgetting what happened because the scars of the civil war still run so deep and yet there are reminders dotted about in France, the UK, even America. This just struck me as a sad little place.
I made my way towards Latour de Carol after that, just taking it easy. I saw four people in all the time I was in that village, by the way. It was so quiet! I began speculating that this was what it would be like if zombies attacked and entertained myself by working out a zombie escape route just in case one of the undead decided to appear around the next corner.
Curious cow is curious.
Yes. Terrapins. O hay, a cemetery! I personally think spending one's birthday looking at graves is a healthy pastime. It was no Pere-Lachaise; most graves only dated back to the 1930s, but there was a civil war monument there..
Spain: To the victims of Nazi-Fascism, martyrs of freedom.
This was poignant because the mountains over in that direction are those of the Spanish border. This was the cost of standing up against Fascism, the cost of trying to protect what the Republicans held dear and yet so many people are rotting in unmarked graves around Spain, forgotten. Spain had (perhaps still has) a dirty pact, a policy of forgetting what happened because the scars of the civil war still run so deep and yet there are reminders dotted about in France, the UK, even America. This just struck me as a sad little place.
I made my way towards Latour de Carol after that, just taking it easy. I saw four people in all the time I was in that village, by the way. It was so quiet! I began speculating that this was what it would be like if zombies attacked and entertained myself by working out a zombie escape route just in case one of the undead decided to appear around the next corner.
Curious cow is curious.
I wandered about a bit more, had a crepe (moohahaa Ava, then went and sat and wrote by ze river.
So it turned 3pm while I was here, which meant it was 2pm in Angleterre (the time I was born in 1981) and therefore I was 100% 27. WOES. Except it was very peaceful and lovely and I had time to reflect and be thankful for what I have.
It was back to chaotic, crazy Barcelona after that. My night was rapidly more and more blurry and ended with pr0n shots of terrapins.
So it turned 3pm while I was here, which meant it was 2pm in Angleterre (the time I was born in 1981) and therefore I was 100% 27. WOES. Except it was very peaceful and lovely and I had time to reflect and be thankful for what I have.
It was back to chaotic, crazy Barcelona after that. My night was rapidly more and more blurry and ended with pr0n shots of terrapins.
Anyway, that was a pretty rad birthday! :D
