If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So I finished reading Fahrenheit 451, and I was disappointed. It’s a book about burning books, at face value, and it should be burnt.
It’s also about learning from our past mistakes and the value of information. I will take […]

Back from Sitges - and up to date with my notes. The entries for the week gone by, when I had no Internet access, are linked below.
Saturday 21st June : Arrival
…and now whole families - hundreds of them - from grandmother to grandson and everyone in between, sits on doorway stoops, and garden chairs, cutting […]

Discovered a very good way to make yourself unpopular in a short space of time - ask for big chunk of gift vouchers in a garden centre where they only have

No chance of a lie in this morning. Checkout was noon. Breakfast was ten, and in between was packing in a stuffy room. As usual I had my stuff zipped away in my bag in half an hour, and spent the rest of my time kicked back in what has become my regular spot over […]

A very late state to our last day in Sitges. The alarm was set to go off at eleven, so of course we missed breakfast and the maids were already knocking on the doors. We left them to it, heading out for Chiringuito for a breakfast of Coke and cheese sandwiches as we read our […]

Our hotel is a positive menagerie. A few days ago there was a red-eared terrapin on the side of the pool. Now we find there are eight - at least - in a small fountain with a dozen or so nervous-looking fish, which keep themselves very must to themselves about as far away from the […]

We woke up to a town in darkness. Metaphorically speaking. The sun was blazing down and the pool was full of days-old water, but the lights would not turn on and all that came out of the taps was an angry hiss of air. Seemingly our hotel’s water supply is electrically pumped, and with no […]

Barcelona, by train, thanks to the grey dowdy clouds of early morning.
We didn’t set out especially early, but perhaps if we had done we would have come back earlier, too, and saved ourselves a lot of trouble on the trains.
Anyhow, the trip out was easy enough - and cheap, too.

The flowers had been destroyed by the time we came out to eat last night, and when we got up this morning and walked through the noonday sun to buy breakfast (it had been a late night) all trace of them was gone. The roads were wet from the sprays of the municipal cleaners and […]

The sun slants down onto the bed, peeping in through the shutters, and wakes me some time after eight. I lay there listening to feint sounds in the street, then got up to investigate the Corpus Christi flowers.

The air is filled with luxurious flavours. Freshly mown grass, sprinkled on the street to pick out the […]