Mercy on La Merce

It is essential to take time out and have dinner with your friends and luckily, I get the opportunity often enough. And not only do I get the opportunity to do it, but once in awhile we get the honor of hosting a few extra guests. Our VIPs were Txell and Monica who spent two weeks in our humble abode and we got to share a few good nights of conversation and food.

Towards the end of September we got to celebrate one last Festa Major, La Merce, Barcelona's Patron Saint. The week was strung together with some rainfall, lots of music, and a 10km race!



We got to witness a little hip hop (bad nonetheless) Antonia Font, an amazing Mallorquin group, and an old-school Catalan crooner, Sisa with a group of famous singers. The last mild summer nights were made up of dinners with friends, dancing on the streets and buying cheap beer.





This year, of course, I had to do something very special to welcome the Merce. Both Alex and I spent a month training hard to run our first race.

Not only did we run and finish, but we did pretty darn well. Alex timing a bright 54minutes and I was just a minute behind, placing in the 300's out of a little over 3'000 women! We were ecstatic and are now planning the next big one, a half marathon.




The musical and sportive week was finished off with a trip to Poble Espanyol with my lovely friends and a colorful firework show. As the last sparks flew up into the sky and exploded, I wished summer goodbye and thanked my lucky stars for being, well, lucky to have spent yet another summer in Barcelona.