We live as long as we fly
As I already wrote, I rode my 🚲 out of town a couple of times on weekday evenings, scaring off the casual strollers in the Turia. Once to the south, to Silla, another time to the north, to Pu
çol. Spain has more than just the famous pilgrim's way (El Camino de Santiago) that everyone constantly dreams of walking and mentions as if there were no other hikes in the world.
The next day we met up with a colleague and his wife, took a walk around the city, and chatted. The details about local life that they shared with me have leaked into other parts, and will surely continue to do so. Much to my regret, this day was a Sunday, which meant I had to work the very next day. I built myself a makeshift little nest out of a regular small table and a living room chair. To level out the height, I put a pillow under me. Pulled out a drawer and laid my favorite puffy jacket on it to save my wrist. Took out my brand new little Microsoft Compact Design Keyboard so I wouldn't have to reach far for the laptop, along with the wireless Logitech mouse I'd brought with me. I ordered the keyboard on Amazon before the flight, and overall it’s fine. However, I completely failed to realize that the Spaniards have their own layout. And although the Latin letters are in the same place, the top row is different from the LV or US layouts, which gets pretty annoying. I type mostly by touch, but when I occasionally glance at the keyboard, I get confused. I gotta say, the Spaniards were very original and added the ¿¡ symbols to their language, which they use to start questions and exclamations. It’s handy, of course, to know right away that you’re dealing with a question, I won’t argue with that. It looks kind of like quotes, first the opening sign, then our usual, closing one. They enclose only the part of the sentence directly containing the question I hope that’s ¿clear?
¡Wonderful!
If you've read the previous parts, you might have noticed incredible futuristic buildings in the background of the story about the trip to Albufera. This is part of the City of Arts and Sciences, built in the riverbed of the same diverted Turia river. The city has an oceanarium, a science museum, a domed IMAX theater, and other stuff. And they look so stylish. This brings us to the conversation that, according to studies, most people prefer classical architecture over all sorts of modernism. That may be true, but not all modernism is created equal. I don't know if the City of Sciences is modernism, but according to my strictly unscientific poll, people actually really like these buildings, and so do I.
