Jardí Botànic de Barcelona

Barcelona (iii)

133 Speaking of tending to the wild – the Botanical Garden of Barcelona is a place to get lost. Not in the sense that it’s extensive or has a confusing structure, but because it has been planted to replicate how these ecosystems might have looked, had they evolved with much less management and care thanContinue reading “Barcelona (iii)”

Barcelona (ii)

110 Visiting new cities can be a tiring exercise. Maybe that’s a contributing factor to why I fell into the habit of visiting botanic gardens. Except for maybe Kew in London and Jadin des Plantes in Paris, my general experience is that botanic gardens are places in otherwise busy cities where you can get aContinue reading “Barcelona (ii)”

stories about sheep

109 I’m reading a book about sheep. “A Short History of the World According to Sheep” by Sally Coulthard. I love how it meanders through the centuries, touching upon everything from the incredible properties of wool to how we started making cheese. Did you know that we have the domestication of sheep to thank forContinue reading “stories about sheep”

train-travel

79 I’ve been thinking about train-travel a lot lately. Maybe because of all the people moving away, the friends who graduated but, because of this strange year, couldn’t get a proper send-off. And also, not being able to get on a train myself. I like train travel. The moments that can happen, in the waiting.Continue reading “train-travel”

all the rivers

56 A while back, I read “All the rivers” by Dorit Rabinyan. It is a novel, the bittersweet love story of an Israeli translator and a Palestinian artist who meet in New York and fall head over heels for each other. Despite the thick walls put up between them by the history and present ofContinue reading “all the rivers”

Barcelona (i)

49 The Botanical Garden of Barcelona might be the most unique botanic garden I’ve ever been to. Among the stadiums from the Summer Olympic Games of 1992 on Montjuïc hill, the botanic garden takes up 14 hectares of hilly terrain. It was established in 1999 and is dedicated to cultivating and displaying plants and ecosystemsContinue reading “Barcelona (i)”