Another friend, this time from Bristol, arrived. She's in Barcelona interviewing people to fill the job of junior language assistant in the department of Spanish of one of the universities in Bristol, and she kindly stayed a few more days just to spend some time with us.
She arrived just a few days after the young French cousin left and, again, my son had to surrender his room to guests. He didn't mind as she's like an auntie to him and as family to us all.
We took her around to visit friends and to the lovely beach in Villanova i la Geltrú, one of the nice beaches a bit south of Barcelona. It was vey full as more and more people are arrivng for their holidays in the sun. The flow of people increases a lot here in summer, with more and more tourist arriving, luckily the prices are not followint that trend but are
staying more or less the same. To eat in a chiringuito by the sea doesn't need to cost a fortune, but we need to buy a cooler so we can take our own cool drinks.(A chiringuito is a place by the sea with some sort of shade, where drinks and some food are sold, usually they also have music, sometimes a DJ and are open very long hours. See picture)
We chat and chat and, by god, how much do I miss just talking to women!
We do talk in a different manner than boys. I believe that we women sort of think while talking... we just chat and the exchange of words help us make our mind when something trouble us. Men are more goal oriented ad take conversations more as the way to reach a goal. We women just go with the flow and analyze thing while we're at it.
Does this make sense to you? I'd appreciate comments on this.
One of the areas where I need to work, now that it looks as we're going to stay here for a long while, is friendships of mi own, specially female friends. I need to work on that.
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