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Wednesday, February 7th, Badalona, Spain
Now
that we are in the same place, following the same
routine each day, it doesn't seem so interesting to write
about our adventures anymore. Between my class and picking up the girls, we
manage to get a little excitement in our days, with Joe
coming to meet me in town twice a week for various
excursions. This week we went to the Palau de la Musica Catalana and Park Guell: two of the
architectural marvels in this city full of architectural
marvels.
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The winter weather has settled in over
the past two weeks with the temperatures dropping down
to freezing during the nights but staying in the mid to
high 50s during the days. We have had hardly any
rain so far, which is bad for Spain, but good for us on
Zia since the boat gets a lot less appealing when it is
wet outside. I'm happy to say that we are plenty
warm so it appears that the decision to continue living
on the boat through the winter was a good one.
We've
made a few friends here. Of course Rafa and Mari
are still here and we were invited to Toni's birthday
party a couple of weeks ago. They rented out a
room for the day and invited all of their aunts and
uncles, brothers and sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins,
grandmothers and grandfathers... and us... to celebrate
the second anniversary of his birth.
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There
are also a couple of friends we have met through the
kids. They have invited various friends from their
class over on the weekends and of course the parents
come along to drop them off. Jose and Monse have a
daughter in Juliana's class and we were invited to their
house last weekend for Sunday lunch. Monse speaks
good English but Jose's is limited to a few words he
learned from watching American films. We spent a
thoroughly enjoyable four hours practicing our Spanish
and getting to know them better. Conversation came
quite easily and they were very patient with my fumbling
Spanish. Both of them are born and bred in
Badalona. They speak Catalan at home but, like all
Catalans, they also speak fluent Castellano.
Aside
from the occasional social engagement, our
weekends are pretty free. We bought rollerblades
for all the girls and enjoy a trip down the
Passeig Maritim at
least once during the weekends.
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We
bought an annual membership to the zoo so we have been
there several times. It is a favorite of the girls
and a great excuse to get them out into the city.
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There
is also a movie theater close to the zoo that shows
movies in their original version so we've seen a couple
of the recent releases. Night at the Museum
was a huge hit with the FishBo family!
We
are starting to talk about plans for the spring.
We'll most likely head for the Balearic Islands in
April: Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera. We
went to Mallorca in October, but stayed mostly in Palma
and missed a bunch of sights so we want to go back.
We are talking about heading east from there to Sardegna,
then north to Corsica and from there, further north, either back to
France or to the Italian coast. Italy will likely
occupy quite a chunk of our summer, but the plan is to
be in Croatia by mid August. From there, we have
kept it open. We'll just wait and see.
As
always, we love hearing from you so drop us a line!
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Many thanks to our friend Craig Homenko for his assistance in setting up the website.
We also would like
to thank our buddy Scott Brunner who has been kind
enough to host the website on his server.
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