It is approximately a 3 hour drive to our villa in Spain in Miami Platja (said playa) south of Barcelona. It amazes us that crossing an invisible line that is a border creates such changes in culture, architecture, language, landscape and unbelievable even weather it seems. France is old but maintained, quaint, pretty, green, made of stone.
Spain is ‘under construction’; even buildings decades old seem unfinished somehow, or at least ill maintained. There are of course exceptions to the rule, but landscaping is distinctly lacking on the average street and there is an obvious shortage of grass. However, it is sunny, warm and the Mediterranean is azure blue. This area, although generally Spanish speaking, also has its own language, Catalonian, a mixture of French and Spanish apparently.
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