Christmas has arrived in Solsona. The city is decorated with pretty white lights up and down the narrow streets. The other night, just outside of my balcony window, in the Plaza Mayor, an enormous truck drove up (how it maneuvered the aforementioned narrow streets to get there - your guess is as good as mine!) carrying an equally enormous pine tree. A crew of men and the crane from the truck set about hoisting the tree into an upright position in the air, then lowering it into a waiting open manhole filled with water. They secured it (through similarly mysterious means) and a few days later strung it with lights. Now, every night there is a gigantic Christmas tree peeking into the living room, shining with Christmas cheer.
And yesterday, on the first day of winter, it snowed! Hooray! It was gone by the late afternoon, but it was glorious and wintery and white while it lasted. I had traveled to Lleida yesterday morning, to pick up my NIE (Foreign Identification Number), and the journey back to Solsona on the bus was a slippery one. The countryside was covered in a dusting of white and the winding, climbing roads were a slushy treacherous mess. But we made it. And I am now officially legal to be in Spain until September 2010!
Bon Nadal! Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas!
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