Granollers

Man on a Crane

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I wrote a week ago about some building works on our street.
For the past two days there has been an enormous crane on the site. I always find cranes exciting  although I am not clear what they are for. In this situation surely they can’t be lifting heaving things into place as there is so little room.  This crane is huge and the arm stretches way across the road and beyond.
Today I looked up to see a man making his way along the arm. He wasn’t wearing any harness as far as I could see. This is Health and Safety Spanish style I think.
He inched along to the end

  lay down and fiddled with something mechanical and then inched his way back to safety

Yes, that small shape up there is him!
How was it possible to do this?  I couldn’t believe that everyone was just walking by normally while someone did an amazing thing way up in the sky.

He wasn’t wearing a helmet either – I suppose that if he had fallen a blow to the head would be the least of his problems.

Street Music

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Sometimes there are musicians in the centre of Granollers. 
Some people even take a break from shopping to listen and dance!

Building works

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I’ve been in Granollers for almost two and a half years now.  During that time it seems there have always been building works going on. First it was the streets, creating the pedestrian zone that now has most of the shops. Millions of new paving bricks were laid. Some of them now make a pleasant jiga-jum sound when I cycle over them. I try to always go over those ones – simple pleasures!

 Then they were working in the square outside the library.
They usually put up a picture so you can imagine the end result. 

Now that is all finished and on Thursdays the square is filled with market stalls including the bit I try to avoid – the chickens and ducks in their small cages.


At the moment there is another hole in the road. I don’t know what they are building but at least it shows that in spite of the ‘crisis’ there is still money to spend on construction. I’ll let you know what emerges from this deep pit

The New Cafe

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Thanks to Kate at Chronicles of a Country Girl  I have discovered a new way to play with my photos. It’s an application called Photo Grid and you can spend many happy hours jiggling all your photos around in different combinations.
Here is this mornings walk

I love that we are in the middle of this busy commercial town and yet within five minutes walk there is a field of wheat – now all cut and drying in the sunshine. Swifts were flying low over the stubble. I think there are less swallows there this year but the swifts are around in huge numbers.

We went for a coffee in the new place I have discovered. I passed by many times and as it looks very boring I didn’t stop to try it out. But in this hot sunshine the terrace is an oasis of shade and peace. The woman who runs it is very friendly and the croissants are soft and fresh.

It is Sant Joan here and Mazey Day in Penzance.

Happy celebrations everyone!

Orxata in La Perla Granollers

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It was 8.30 before the streets cooled down enough to take Bonnie for a walk.
For a Birthday walk as she was 10 years old today. The clock on the pharmacy still said it was 30C but a cool breeze was blowing down the main street and it felt pleasant.
I decided to stop for an orxata – the delicious drink made from tiger nuts, water and sugar.
But I didn’t stop at that, I ordered a cubano which is a glass of orxata with a large dollop of ice cream inside.  Usually I have vanilla ice cream but tonight I wanted coconut

It came with a straw which had a little spoon attached at the bottom, so you can alternate between drinking and eating

I’m afraid I then ordered another – exactly the same. Well it is Summer Solstice.