On my first day of practicing a kind of single mindedness towards our travels and simply relishing, referred henceforth as feather plucking, I noticed birds: a green parakeet near the Tetra Grec, a magpie in Poble Sec, and geese in the 14th century cloister of La Seu Cathedral.
Actually, you can’t help but notice the geese. I mean, c’mon. There’s thirteen of them in permanent residence… in the cloister. They have their own fish pond and a steady stream of adoring tourists who slip them nibbles through the fence of their enclosure. The saint they honor, Saint Eulalia, was tortured to death by the Romans, but the geese seem to have scored a better fate.
