last friday we all headed to the beach. let it be said that it was a huge ordeal. we left home around 11:30 or 12. if we had gone by car (which we couldn't have) it would have taken less than an hour. we went by bus and train, so it took about 3 hours. then, once we were there, we had to eat some more. so we stopped somewhere and got some paella. i am glad i tried it, but honestly, it's too seafoody for my tastes. i prefer the non-seafoody seafood, such as squid, scallops and non-fishy fish. anyway, i did get a kick out of the restaurants' menu: it translated boquerones fritos as "fried kinds of anchovy", and sardinas plancha as "sardines it he irons"(it should have been like, fried sardines or something). obviously, they couldn't decide who was ironing the sardines, so they put both "it" and "he".
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| funny menu-english |
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| paella |
after we ate, we went down to the shore. it was a really pretty day, but just not quite hot enough to want to swim. it was nice and breezy. the water was...cold. i felt like a floridian saying that it was cold, but i guess when florida is the place you know when it comes to beaches, you can't help it. it felt good to wade in the water though, and feel it's saltiness on my legs. it reminded me of when we'd swim in the mediterranean back in the mid 90s. i mostly sat and chatted with rubén's cousin, laura. i really don't remember what we talked about it, but we talked about it for close to an hour. then we packed up, ximena did some shopping, and we headed home. we got back around 1 am, grabbed random food for supper and went our separate ways.
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| train ride from beach to barcelona |
i think i'm running out of things to say. good thing i'm going home tomorrow. yes, i leave at seven in the morning to catch a metro and bus to the airport. i just weighed my almost-packed bag and it's only 44 lbs. this means that i can go buy something that weighs up to 5 lbs. YES!
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