Sunny Sunday in Mallorca
Just a musing post on this sunny Sunday morning in Mallorca Spain….
I’m sitting in a very nice cafe just outside the Mediaeval Cathedral here in Mallorca having a cappuccino and typing into my laptop. As the bells ring for Sunday Mass I ponder the odd set of things in my life now… When I’m done here I will wander back across town to get back onboard a sailing ship rigged like one from the 19th century. I have traveled halfway around the world on transport that would have been amazing only 50 years ago, I’ve chatted in realtime across the planet from outside a building that was built in the middle ages.
There is an odd kind of mental disconnect when I sum all this up. It’s a kind of temporal confusion. Odd but exciting at the same time.
The Mate says we will be leaving on Tuesday for Gibraltar. That will be my first time at sea, the start of this passage at last.
Time to go and look around a bit more before I have to embed myself in the ways of our fine ship once more.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
November 16th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Cognitive dissonance is how Bujold described it. I felt the same way, when I was walking past a guy selling live chickens out of crates, in order to get to an internet cafe, in Luxor. And being confronted with a very old-style toilet in an older part of up-to-the-minute Taipei. You expect things to be different; when they are almost, but not quite, like the things at home, it creates a weird feeling.
Bon voyage.