May is for Blossoming Briefly
A May smorgasbord of what I’ve been doing in the 3+ weeks since I returned from Spain: · Reflecting : Because I’m nothing if not analytical, of course I’ve been pondering my trip, what worked, what I would have done differently, what I felt and experienced while gone. I was telling a couple of friends about the ‘insider/outsider’ experience, more so this time because I was in one place (Valencia) for a while (16 nights) and really wanted to feel that despite being a turista , I was a slow traveller, one who was taking the time to get to know a place. I wrote in a previous post about a passing jogger calling out “Afuera” to me, clearly labelling me an outsider who didn’t know the path was for joggers and not walkers. But, on the day I was leaving Valencia, when emerging from the metro and heading to Valencia’s Joaquim Sorolla station to catch a train to Cuenca, google maps left me confused, and construction o...
