@Baxter

Beautiful pictures. Amazing

 

I would like to contribute to the thread, how do you upload your pic's?

 

One way is to upload them to imgur.com, copy and paste the BBcode here.
Another would be imgbb.com.

 

Not really an area but I had to make this pic. It's a stray tomcat pursuing his favourite occupation. He adopted me for some time and gave me the honour of feeding him, petting him and providing him with shelter in bad weather.

 

 

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I just don't go out all that much, it's Wild out there..

 

Couple of shots I took recently of some of the critters that live around the neighborhood...

 

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This dude tried to sell me car insurance yesterday

 

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Brother, were do you live?! This is BEAUTIFUL, i want to live there! hahaha. Its amazing... looks like from some game or something like that... Sadly i am stuck in this 3rd world country with boring landscapes...

 

Get out, clear your head and take a breath of fresh air. And take no gadgets with you.

 

Thank you for the kind words. I live about an hour outside Barcelona in the Alt Penedes. It's wine country, so mostly vineyards and natural areas. A good portion of these shots I took from the terrace of my house, the rest from vantage points during hikes through some of the vineyards we live next to.

 

You are welcome bro, you are lucky to live there, i imagine its a pretty chill place to live in, it seems there is no city near it, its free from polution and contamination.
By the way, the 6th picture reminds me a lot of The Witcher 3 hahaha.

 

Cheers. Yes it's been quite a blessing living out here especially during this pandemic. We bought a house 3 years ago and moved here from the city to raise our little girl. Feels like we dodged a bullet sometimes because if we were still living in our small flat in Barcelona during Covid, I think we would have lost our minds by now. There is absolutely nothing out here except nature and silence. I'll take that over the constant sounds of traffic, construction and the homeless dude with night terrors we heard everything single day for years.

That 6th picture by the way is an old school rock shack that crop workers use to store tools and use for shade during the summer months. I tell my daughter a witch lives in there and she constantly bugs me to knock on the door so she can see what she looks like

 

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Couple more:

 

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You don't know how Right you are..
and how Privileged!

 

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Appreciate the kind words <3 My wife and I are American expats and by no means privileged but we do consider ourselves very lucky to be able to live where we do. Both my wife and I moved to Spain without any family, savings or jobs. It wasn't easy but we managed to scrape enough money together over the span of ten years to buy our home and part of the reason we made our decision to move out here is because of how expensive Barcelona had become. The cost of living is drastically cheaper outside Barcelona city and buying a home just made more sense. We don't have a lot of the conveniences and amenities that the city has to offer, but its way more affordable and the pace of living is calmer which is great for raising our daughter.

 

Awesome!!

And very very uncommon,
I've only met a couple of Americans living in Barcelona,
but they were younger ppl, studying or in that traveling/settling period of their lives..

Knowing you're American it even makes more sense that you choose to live there tho,
it's like more in your culture to live in a sort of independent way, have your own home, the garage, a piece of land..

Nice to have you here tho!
I don't know how my fellow catalans/spaniards may be treating you,
but I personally always liked American ppl, their attitude and ofc their Culture.. so you're more than Welcome here!

 

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hi all,
excellent post, with beautiful pictures!
thank you!

 

That is awesome mate, i am glad you found your place on earth! Not everyone can find it, i wish i could, i am sure i will someday too.
Nice that you are with your daughter there and living a good life outside the chaos of city and society, everyone is crazy today, its cool that you moved to a place without all that crap to be with your family.

And that is funny, hahaha. It sure looks like a witch is living there.

 

Autumn on the Caledonian canal.