Well, finally got to go the Piscines Bernat Picornell yesterday with Mijkl where us two dirty squatters squandered the eight euro fifty for a few hours of lounging in a hot tub (which wasn´t so hot but gave a hell of a body massage), both a dry and a wet sauna, and of course the Olympic-sized swimming pool. Did I mention we took the most luxurious, water-wasting shower ever? :) We were both relaxed (´languid´as Mijkl calls it) and squeaky clean by the end of it, we couldn´t recognize ourselves! :)

Afterwards, we headed to the opening of the squat library and had free vegan food (curried vegetables with seitan and rice, chocolate cake for dessert) and sat around a short circular table on chairs that used to belong to some kindergarten school and talked - of course - politics. Well I wasn't much in the mood for chatting with the punk anarchists that evening so I just relegated myself to browsing through the varied books of the library and settling on CrimethInc's Days of War, Nights of Love, which of course I want to read cover to cover someday.

Today we willed ourselves out of bed at 3:30 in the afternoon (after a couple of hours of reading more activist-inspiring books in bed) and had coffee and breakfast in the kitchen upstairs. Other plans today? Calling my grandmother and a couple of other personal admin calls relating to my return flight...

Now that I have a definite date of departure (from Barcelona), I am finally settling into the pace of this Catalan city... go figure...