06 September, 2006

and still some more fiesta!

Yes. Here they take their fiestas very seriously and today the fun is still going on.
However, there´s so much fiesta one can take and we decided to take it easy and stay at home for most part of the day.

The flat is surprisingly quiet. Even tough is not looking at the street I expected to be able to hear the neighbours, smell their food and so on, but not a peep or a sniff. I wasn´t even sure if there was people actually living here. I founded a bit spooky until I finally heard some human noise in the form of a baby wailing from somewhere during the nigh (not enough to prevent us for sleeping) and somebody playing the piano at around 10 o´clock today.

I never lived in a flat before and I thought it´ll be like living in everybody´s pocket. Not here. maybe is that the buildings are well built and with proper designs but I also think that most people here are totally used of living on top of each other and are very civil about it. Very urbane (is this a proper word?) and polite people who really trying hard not to bother their neighbours.
This is a bit of a surprise because the Catalans are without a doubt the most loud people while they´re on the street on in cafes, you can follow people´s chat without any effort from across the room sometime.

There also loads of doggies all over the place, specially small ones and for some reason Yorkies are particular favourites, but not much dog poo on the pavement.

The only social problem so far is the smoking. Despite being a law forbiden smoking in public places, so far people smoke everywhere.

However and so far this is a very civilised place to live.

1 comment:

KlaudjaB said...

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well... at least he's not offering me to enlarge enything.