Today, we had a strange adventure, to say the least. Throughout the adventure I kept thinking I was remembering things.
Let me explain. Because we've already been in quite a few adventures already (over 100 in total) and we're using the same map of Dijleland, the adventures we make may go through places we'd already been in. Those places may have been recently or a long time ago. For example, a few adventures ago, at the early 200s, we walked the exact same route we had walked in another adventure, but there were differences. The first difference was the fact that we were walking in the opposite direction, and the second being that in the earlier adventure, the walk had been covered in snow, but in the later adventure it was all sunny and nice. It was interesting to compare the pictures we took with and without snow.
But unfortunately, if the place we had been in was a long time ago, we would only be left with a feeling of déja vu as we walk by what could or could not be a place we had already walked.
And it was that déja vu feeling that I had, like a bell ringing at the back of by head, but the sound of the ringing was so far away I couldn’t tell if I’d heard it or not.
Animals of the day: sheep, horses and cows. The animals in the neighbourhood seemed to be very sophisticated as the cows seemed to be very good at small talk, the horses greeted us with pleasure and the sheep had a mannerly conversation with Tonio. But for the two lots of sheep, as soon as I spoke they tended to lose interest or respect in us; but I couldn’t tell which. And as we wound around in the plentiful narrow passages, we were gladly accompanied by the many animals around us. We even looked into more detail at the plants and insects as I spotted a yellow spotted spider, a sponge coloured spider, a bronze-coloured beetle and about 100 or more flies... which, to be honest, was 100 more than we wanted disturbing us.
But at last, we made it back to the car, jumped in and headed home... did you enjoy this animal, plant and memory filled adventure? If you have, then make sure to join us on our next trip. Also, make sure to check out Tonio's blog called the Wanderer. Until next time!
Today's walk started off like the other time, through roads with too many cars and also, on this occasion, cyclists whizzing by. This was also due to traffic being diverted to the secondary road where we were walking, because of roadworks on the main access to Sint-Agatha Rode.
Bit by bit, however, it became more rural and calm. We encountered various animals, mostly cows, sheep and horses. I had a, sort of, meaningful conversation with a sheep. She more or less repeated her same argument, while I tried to be a bit more elaborate in my remarks. But maybe they're not familiar with the Maltese language. This flock of sheep had been sheltering inside a shed and I gave them my standard greeting: "Insellmilkom!" Literally, "Greetings to you". In Malta, for some reason, it's only used on the radio and on TV. And by myself. My new-found friends the sheep took this to mean that they should go out into the field to graze, which they immediately set out to do.
Sheep will be sheep...
Still, mosquitoes or not, this whole "Adventures in Dijleland" idea was one of the best I've ever had. Yet again, it was an interesting and a lovely couple of hours with Gianluca and, as always, a means to take some pretty pictures.
I'm looking forward to the next one.
