Beyond The Pale

• Stork Chicks 2 years ago The last time I wrote about the wetland storks was in early May. At that point, the adults were tending to their nests, but there weren’t any chicks yet.It wasn’t until the 29th of May that I saw the first chick. There it was, a little white head. You could hardly see it because the nests...
• Disappointment 2 years ago  When I recently called ahead to my favorite restaurant, El Pont Vell in Besalú, to reserve a table, I was, of course, disappointed when they told me they would be closed that day. That being a Sunday, I was alsosurprised. Closed? Yes, closed. In fact, the village would be clossed. They...
• Festa! 2 years ago  All cities, towns, and villages here in Catalonia have a festa major – an annual festival, usually to celebrate their patron saint – that goes on for days. In Figueres it is Santa Creu(Holy Cross), celebrated at the end of April and spilling over into the first days of May. The main church...
• Sights, Sounds, and Surprises 2 years ago It’s never the same there twice at the wetlands. The seasons change, the scenery changes, the birds change, and you often see something totally unexpected. These days it is full of bird song. The path I take to get to the stork nests is wooded on both sides. There are dozens of birds up in...
• Vilafreser 2 years ago Returning recently from a doggy acupuncture trip to Girona, I saw a small village off to the left of the highway. Funny that I don’t remember noticing it before. Maybe it was the bright yellow fields of rapeseed that caught my eye this time. I didn’t want to stop, what with the dog in the...

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