Muses on happiness

Today my ticket to see Bob Dylan in Toulouse in June arrived!!! YIPEEE! I’m hoping that the concerts in Andorra and Zaragoza will be confirmed soon and I can get tickets to them. I plan to start a week’s holiday on June 20th driving to Toulouse for the first concert (and hopefully seeing some fellow translator friends the following day), then maybe on to Andorra and then to Zaragoza, where I intend to spend a couple of days visiting the Expo on water and another couple of days nourishing my soul at the Monasterio de Piedra just outside Zaragoza. Check out its website to see why! I stayed in the hotel many, many years ago with my parents on a holiday and have this wonderful memory of the place. I see from the website that the hotel has upgraded somewhat since then, but hey!! I’m worth it But all that beautiful water and nature will renew me spiritually, ready to face the summer with new energy.

Other concerts I have spied, but can’t yet get tickets for, are Joan Baez at the Palau de la Música Catalana and Leonard Cohen – who’s going on tour for the first time in 15 years – at Cap Roig in Palafrugell. It seems he’ll be there two nights running so hopefully I’ll be able to get a ticket! It’s a beautiful place for a concert, under a full moon – if you’re lucky!! – in a beautiful botanical garden overlooking the sea, but it’s a place that appeals to the local jet set and us mere mortals have a hard time getting tickets as it only holds 1600 people. I was SO incredibly lucky (and tenacious) two summers ago and managed to get two tickets to see Dylan there (sigh………..) and last year I saw Joan Baez there which was magic. I’d never seen her live before even though I have enjoyed her music and been singing from her Song Book since I was about 13!!

What a fun summer in store!!