The whole town

Today is the day the local magazine, TOTSantCugat, comes out.  Tot means all or whole in Catalan.

You'll find them ALL over, including outside the hardware store,

the candy shop,

a doctor's office,

the tobacco shop,

a door with the handle in the middle
(not sure why they are here),

the pharmacy,

and the optician, to name a few.

I can't really blame the people who take the magazine and leave the ads.

I can't read much Catalan, but I pick one up and make an attempt to learn something before looking at it online to really know what is going on.

News

I look at the headlines of US newspapers and sometimes listen to headlines, but I was curious about following the local news.  I had found Spain's news in English which felt more like ex-pat news and not so local.

I looked for a Barcelona newspaper and found ara.cat, which is in Catalan (and also elperiodico.com, which is in Spanish).

That's how I learned about the fire burning in the hills between our town and Barcelona.  I went to our balcony and there it was.

I felt the sense of impending doom as I do in L.A., but I never smelled the smoke and when I came back from errands I could no longer see any signs of fire.  I hope everyone is safe!