This is my lovely Catalan boy Jordi and today is his Saint's Day. Here in Catalonia it's the equivalent to St Valentine's for us in the uk. Here on St Jordi you give a book and a rose to show you love someone. It's quite beautiful this tradition. So today I invited Jordi to a sumptuous lunch and then went walking around the town to find books. He gave me my rose this morning which was a lovely surprise.
I don't know why but it's always good weather on St Jordi, we were very hot as we walked through the streets crowded with people and book and rose stalls. I'm not into crowds but this day is different, when you see people buy roses for each other and looking through books it makes everyone seem very civilised and lovely at the same time. He's off watching the footie now so it's been a great day overall for him, bless 'im.
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
St Jordi's day
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