The next day, Sunday, I also had a bike plan. Not as easy as "you ride down to the sea and take the bike bus back", but still okay. I decided to return by train. On the plus side – there are a lot of stations, and you can change your route on the fly. On the downside – it's not always clear where and what time the 🚆 stops.
I headed to the sea again, but not to the southeast, like on Saturday, but to the northeast, towards the city of Figueres. Mapping out a route wasn't exactly simple, unlike back in my native lands. Latvia is underestimated by many as a place to live. The thing is, we have plenty of land with no one around, and the terrain is moderately hilly. In practice, this means you can walk or ride wherever you want, with minimal restrictions. If you love being in nature, this is a huge bonus. In Girona, things are completely different. In Valencia, everything around is vegetable gardens, while in Girona, the hills quickly turn into 🗻, where for bike rides you need a solid level of fitness and low body weight.
By the way, speaking of land. In Latvia, a hectare of agricultural land costs about 4k €. In the Netherlands, the EU leader in this metric – 70k! Seventy, Carl!
Of course, if there are absolutely no ⛰, like in those same Netherlands, it's also boring. Nothing to look at, no action. And in general, the famous pop anthropologist Drobyshevsky tells us that the main trait of primates is curiosity without a specific goal. Almost no other animals have this. 🐈 are very interested in their surroundings, but only in what might be useful to them. Humans, as we know, are constantly engaged in utter bullshit like collecting stamps or running Doom on coffee machines. I'm not even talking about sufferers of attention deficit disorders like me, who can't even read a paragraph without getting distracted. On the other hand, I prefer useless interest in everything to depressive episodes when there's no interest in anything. For that to happen, just not getting enough sleep is enough for me.