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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Viladrau. April 2019


Viladrau

Slowing into a rural life style—to the extent we can, as visitors—we begin the first mountain walk of our stay. Not every sign post meets our approval, in the heat of a sunny spring day. Yon tree is not the tree depicted on this brochure, a problem sure to get my coat off, my sleeves imagined rolled. The sensation then returns—smallness in relation. Viladrau is renowned for its mineral springs. And its natural beauty. In the distance the mountain grows, and an ease to pause flows more easily in the visitors’ step. Run down weathered doors return the occasional walker to the beaten path. Eyes now keener toward the lichen and the drop.

Mediterranean scrubland
and the branch tip
through rubble walls. 



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