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Oh, Spain! Is so filled with amazing events! Walking home just now I saw a man busking with his telescope. It was pointed up towards the moon, a peach lying in dark glossy syrup, and ...read more
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I saw two girls, two women, long-haired and standing round bags, close together on the subway and talking American. The train jolted round a corner and the girl nearer me fell against her lover as ...read more
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Today a very fortunate wander took me into a place I adored: several places and all of them new. I couldn't handle the surly manner and derisory service, the lack of smiles from the waiters ...read more
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Unable to stomach any more Spanish food I went out and found a tiny Thai place. It was up a narrow staircase from the paved street where people wander in the evening in great numbers; ...read more
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I saw three Spanish boys doing parkour in the gardens. I have run out of money and am hungry: it's temporary. To a Spaniard gardens means a large, bare, gravelled expanse with formally clipped hedges ...read more
Following a little family down the long walkways of Terminal One to reach Terminal Two and the mouth of the subway, I kept seeing how the little girl held tight to her mother's hand and ...read more
Finally experienced the piercing joy of eating ice-cream in the freezing cold, I always used to wonder why people would do that. But tonight I walked into this swanky ice-cream bar where the guy had ...read more
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Changing the side of the street I walk home on to avoid having to avoid the strenuously charming guy who always seems to be patrolling in front of his shop - often with a pretty ...read more
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I just saw a Berliner sitting with legs planted apart in the sunshine and hugely enjoying his hot dog - or some kind of meat that will never die forced into a large white bread ...read more