visited the church this morning, wandered around quietly and took a few photos where i could. sat in silence for a while in a tiny chapel under the main alter. it smelled of incense and it was so utterly silent, i felt like i was falling into a trance.
later, trying to follow directions to a hardware store to pick up some extra supplies for our booth, we ended up on the outskirts of the city and made our way into the middle of the ruins of an old fortress. climbing the muddy grass covered hills that substituted for most of where the fortress should have been, we reached a top peak where we could look out over the city. it was really beautiful. the fortress was huge, and was essentially a huge expanse of grass covered hills with remains of stone walls and a large moat in areas. bounding down the small dirt path that wove through the trees and over the hills i felt like a little kid again exploring hidden castles and imagined how much fun it would be to run and jump and play in this spot. we never found the hardware store, but finding that place was worth it.
on our way through the ruins, we saw a magpie. the english are superstitious and believe that magpies can be good luck ("one for sorrow, two for joy...") and so we saluted the lone magpie in hopes of not having "sorrow" be our destiny. a little later, we saw another and just as we were wishing there were two together, both flew up out of the bush in unison and solidified our good luck.
so far, so good...
No comments:
Post a Comment