Miscellania

Well, I've kind of slacked off lately on the blog-posting. No reason really, I've just been lazy. So, here are 10 miscellaneous photos from the past couple weeks or so.


#1) Breakfast. Some mornings I have enough time to make something nice, like a fried egg sandwich with onions and cheddar cheese. And two or three tiny cups of tea.

#2) At the Aquarium. I've been back to A Coruña again since my post about it, and one of the places I went was the aquarium, where they had a big tank of octopuses. I took a bunch of photos, but most of them were blurry. This was the best one. There were a bunch of little kids there too, and I found it hilarious that their parents kept telling them, "¡Mira! ¡Qué rico!" for all of the exhibits. "Look kiddies! Look at all these rare, beautiful animals! So delicious!"

#3) A Cat. I found her in Fonsagrada, she was super friendly.

#4) Milus. That was the name of the tour guide at the Torre de Hercules (well, the name of his Roman character at least). He was very bubbly and charismatic, and had a lot of interesting things to say about the history of the tower and the area, and the symbolism in the mosaic we're standing on. He's the one in the saia (Galician version of the kilt).

#5) Compass Rose. The mosaic we were standing on. The images stand for Scotland (thistle) Isle of Man (three legs) Ireland (shamrock) Finesterre (skull) Galicia (chalice w/sun) Santiago de Compostela (shell) Greece (winged snake) and one other one (diamonds)

#6) Rua Ramon Ferreiro. The main street that goes from my neighborhood to the center. Off to the right is a Gadis, my favorite grocery store.

#7) Don Leon. A chain of cafeterías/pastelerías/panderías. Coffee shops. When you go to a Don Leon or any other coffee shop and order un chocolate, you will receive a cup of melted chocolate. It's warm chocolaty pudding goodness for less than 2 euros.

#8) La Xunta. the Xunta (pronounced shoon-ta) is the Galician government. This is one of their buildings in Lugo, which is the capitol of Lugo province. The flags are, left to right: Galicia, Spain, Europe.

#9) Goodies. As a Christmas gift, all the teachers and employees at the school got a box of sweets. There were two types of sweets: almondy things (turrón and marzipan) and polverones, which translates to something like 'dusties.' They are little crumbly cake things, mostly flour and sugar. Also, raisins and dried figs.

#10) A fig. Figs are pretty common here, but fig newtons are not.