my christmas day went like this...








a few stretches I should have done. instead I laughed and took a photo.









Skype everyone who was online, goodtimes. Then pack a handy picnic bag full of goodies. Get on the Metro, realise I'm on the wrong side juuuust as the train comes, then go to the other side and wait for the next one. Beeaaauuuuutiful day. Bus up Montjuïc, and visit the castle at the top. Walk around the park area and find a sweet grassy spot, tree to lean on, and get out my feast and book and sit for 3-ish hours. Listen to an old man singing songs at his park bench. Walk down the hill to Montjuïc Cemetary and feel like a creep looking at (crazy but good looking) graves on Christmas day. Bus back up the hill. Walk down the other side into town. 


So it was a pretty lax day really. Stuffed myself silly as per any normal Christmas day. I'm glad it was nice and sunny and rather hot actually, again with all the walking I was doing, by the time I got back home my legs were screaming in over-used annoyance, and I was so full I didn't even go out for dinner like I'd planned. Instead I had a few beers, went for a short evening walk (I sound like a 60 year old) and read the rest of my book. 


OOO and what a good book it was. I got to the pivotal point in the book where the big reveal was coming and I couldn't put it down. Plus, as it's set in Barcelona, the characters were roaming round streets I recognised, and it also mentioned a few times Montjuïc Castle and the goings on in there in war time. Crazy times as I'd just been there that afternoon! 


Anywho, hope everyone out there had fabulous days and got presents and feasted and had drinks and laughs all round. I sure did have a  good one. It's like it wasn't even Christmas here, I thought there'd be less people around or something, and that things like buses and trains would stop or at least be not as frequent. Which they probably were but there was still enough of them around not to notice. 


Boxing day today, and I'm up to not much, did some more walking around parks and alot of sitting and reading and eating paella. I managed to get a bowl of mussels by accident again. What is it with me and accidentally getting these thigns! The good news is, these ones were tasty as! I'm currently watching the Grudge 2 by myself in the new place, waiting for the friendos. Weehoo! Great thing to be watching! 

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