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heading North on a train, such a comfortable way to travel!

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tough packing decisions... what to take?

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Palm Sunday palm drying in the sun

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renovation in progress

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one of Alicante's many fountains

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Mona de Pascua, typical sweet bread (w/ a hardboiled egg) eaten around here the days after Easter

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HAPPY EASTER!!!

Today's pic (click it bigger!) is from Alicante's Easter Sunday procession. At 11h30 the Virgin was carried out of her church and Christ out of his, and at noon they met in front of City Hall and danced for joy at seeing each other! :o)

Joyous meeting between the Virgin and Christ resuscitated!

 

I'll be writing more about this procession over at Cris Crossing the Globe within the next couple of days.

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Wondering if she still likes these plants so much when they're wet... :p

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Experiments in cooking following a friend's recipes! Cream of cauliflower and parmesan, artichoke mousse pie. Yum!

Spanish Football Fever

Just so you don't forget my football obsession from last summer... I'm going to dip my toes back in the subject! ;o)

Although usually I go nuts for football only every 4 years - and occasionally every 2 - i.e. when Spain's National team plays the World Cup (or European Cup), it doesn't mean I'm not interested in the sport in the in-between times. It's just that I haven't been bitten by the football bug, the one that's responsible for so many "football widows" in Spain (and many other countries) on weekends. I have a favourite team (Real Madrid with goalie "San" Iker Casillas, captain of the national team and who with this victory has now won every possible title), but I won't sit down to watch them face-off with the others every week. I'll definitely choose a good movie, a TV series or going out somewhere instead of putting football on the screen. But I LOVES me a good match! So when it looks like there's going to be one, usually a particularly important event, count me in!

Right now there are cars honking their horns in streets outside my window. Twenty minutes ago someone set off a huge blast (firecracker) that sent my dog running to hide in the bathtub. A little over half an hour ago my mom was yelling "gooooooooool" out the balcony and I could hear neighbours in other appartments yelling the same thing.

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Enjoying the drive

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Leftover sandstone from remodelling... so many things I can do with this! ;o)

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un-bandaged knee!!! fewer bruises than I expected, but still injured enough to hurt and keep me calm for a few more weeks

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Palm Sunday in Elche