The ants go marching

Everywhere I need to go in Spain, I walk. And walk and walk and walk. To meet people, I walk. To catch the bus, I walk. To go to the mall, I walk. To go out at night, I walk. I walk.

There are city buses, which are extremely helpful to get to school since I really don't want to walk to the university. It is possible to walk to classes, although it would take 50min or so, and that's even downhill. Going back up... well, that took over an hour. On a road where the sidewalks require you to be shoulder-to-side-mirror with the traffic. Along non-residential, busy streets most of the way. Which is why I haven't repeated that experience.

You would think then, since I do all this walking, that for sure I must be skinny as all get-out. But things even themselves out with all the food we eat for lunch and supper. So I can't complain too much either way.

I find that I tend to notice odd things while I walk. For example, ants in Spain do not lazily meander about the ground. They tend to do things en masse. Every so often I'll see a whole column of ants across a sidewalk. I don't know why they do this; it's not like the Amazon where ants surge in rank to devour everything in their path. It must be a Spanish thing; they can't stand being without a group of them together.

Another thing I noticed are all the baby carriages/strollers. Quizás I notice this because they block the sidewalk (which is usually a good 8ft wide in most of the inner city) and are so slow. But they are all brandnew and color-coded and comfy.