Category: Travel
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Getting Out (Sitges IV)
After the previous two posts, sleepless and, as always, aware that one should employ every minute of vacation time rather than waste it, I went out at 3 am to Trailer, my favorite of the dance clubs here. It turns out that 3 is too early for Trailer, and it was virtually empty – I…
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Temporal (Sitges III)
After midnight, difficult to sleep, hearing David Lang’s shimmering, wispily endless Orpheus Over and Under pieces. There is something bothering me about Neville’s illness and impending death (aside from the obvious), plus its effect on his partner Chris, plus our mutual friend Dennis’ moving away up the coast, and the possible knock-on effects of these…
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Imperturbable (Sitges II)
Even after a demented pair of nights spent trying to keep up with Nick, a handsome, sexy younger guy – one whose approach to everything is aggressively, even competitively, sensual, and who complains in one breath about the “bubble” of Sitges (by which he means the strangely unreal effect of the desire-oriented population – and…
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Dithering (Sitges I)
What do I want to do? Sitges, the little beach town down the coast from Barcelona, is designed for desires: I want to go to the beach, I want to eat dinner. I want muscat grapes, I want fideuá, I want hazelnuts in honey. I want to walk through narrow streets, I want to see…
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Viajes
Off to Spain tomorrow. Yes, it’s true, I got many things done today… back in eight days, then three days in London, then increasing work/administration toward the beginning of the school year…. But tomorrow, Sitges. Sun. A group of my friends, especially Susan; shopping in Barcelona; beach, sand; the clubs with handsome Spanish men. Food…
Paul Attinello 