On the same weekend that the Spanish government granted “personhood” status to a saltwater lagoon so that it could sue for environmental harm to itself, we saw more music in two hours than we’d seen in three weeks, as shown below.
This is because it’s the weekend of the Mercé, the annual massive festival in Barcelona that, like many European festivals, started off as something “church” religious and turned into something that is mostly “music, dancing and beer” religious.
After one last drum line, fire-breathing dragon, concert and walk around the park, it was time to go to sleep before heading to the airport.
And with that one more trip to Spain is in the books. When I first got here more than three weeks ago, I needed to get through a security gate at the Barcelona airport to catch my flight to Mallorca, and the scanner couldn’t read the bar code on my boarding pass. I was stuck behind the gate and there was no one around except for a very large, heavily-armed serious-looking security guard. I explained my problem and he took my boarding pass and scanned it successfully on a different machine. When I thanked him, he said “Everything works better with a little love.” Lesson learned.
A sweet ending........
ReplyDelete