Una vida Holandesa en Mallorca

Carnaval is not so exciting in Palma as in some other places in Spain... But still we took the opportunity to dress up and go out:-)

At least, so it seemed this weekend. We made a nice excursion to Castell Santueri, through the almond trees:-) Flowering:-) and under the blue blue sky. We lunched with a view and in my t-shirt.

I did not know but it is quite ´normal´ (around 1 every 100 years) to have earthquakes in Palma. Last Saturday morning we had one of 3,2 on Richters´ scale. At 8:07am (according to my alarm clock), I was awake so I noted the shaking of the bed and closet. Bizarre.

Maybe you´ve seen the pictures in Facebook or Flickr already. Last week was the yearly party of Palma, celebrating the name day of its patron Saint, San Sebastian. Wednesday there was the traditional ´torrada´ or bbq in the streets. I didn´t join the carbonisation of sausages but joined the drinking and later correfoc in ses voltes, underneath the cathedral. Dancing with demons:-) This saturday there was the (a bit more quiet) official parade of correfoc of Palma and the fireworks at the cathedral. The advantage of having a ´Spanish´ baby is that you get to take him to the fireworks even if they are at night. Lucas was impressed but not scared (as long as he was close to me, his father went of dancing with demons). Sunday we erased the last traces of a decent education by going to drink chocolate milk with the parents of the baby wave of my work. None of the babies seemed too interested while Lucas managed to drink 2 mugs of chocolate within 5 minutes............. Anyway. This week we will try again hahahahaha

Saw Avatar. Nice special effects (I think). But hey, I know that story!!! Pocahontas right? Only the Disney version of it because of the happy ending.... I wonder if they paid copyrights.... so much for original screenplays. The one thing I liked though is the marine reference: saw the ´seeds´ swimming? Jellyfish! The red tube thingies in the wilderness in the beginning? Chrismas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus)! The horses? Based on Sea horses!
Okay, back to work now reader! Or maybe stop by the internet shop of my friend Andrea who makes wonderful baby slings: www.habibibebe.com, and see how my (and Lucas´) modeling career is taking off;-)

We´re back. Just in time to enjoy the spectacle of two trucks of the firebrigade and a huge cloud of smoke on the house opposite in the street (wind blowing our way). Lucky it didn´t seem to be serious and after a few minutes the calm returned. Our house was cold and humid. Fungus on various parts of the house. Stale smell, you know what I mean. Two weeks is obviously too long to leave a house unoccupied. Took us some hours to blow some heat in the room. Today we discovered they broke into the car and stole the documentation. Which I never leave in the car but we were meant to go to the yearly inspection which we didn´t do because of lack of time but forgot to take out the papers. A nice welcome back....
In Italy it was seriously cold outside but at least nice and cosy inside. Now we are facing the reverse: outside okay but inside humid and chilly........ At least the water doesn´t seem to be charged with electricity like it was before we left. Mysterious........

We´re skiing in Sestriere, Italy:-)
Would be perfect, lots of snow etc see below. If not for the downwards spiraling sleeping habits of baby. We went from sleeping through to waking up once, twice, three times to not wanting to go back to sleep at all. And all because we share the same bedroom. Baby does not want to be in our bed, just wants to be rocked the whole night. Getting desperate, tips welcome;-)
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