The mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, has presented a plan to "create 194 new sun shelters in this term, with new shaded areas in places like Plaça Joanic, in Gràcia, and Plaça del Mar, in Barceloneta." To explain it, he said that "the climate changes and the city must adapt" and that "we want to avoid having squares, parks and streets that are cast down by the heat."
A "sun shelter" is what they call in institutional language what would be a traditional shade, in the same way that when they announce "work on the trees" it means that they need to be pruned. "trees", now as in the time of Charlemagne, you can't be there. They are awnings (modern, eh?, not those raffia ones that come to Casa Cuqui), but to think that the trees we drive away would be the best and most logical climate shelter. sundryingNormalcy returning after abnormality is a trend. Any day now you'll tell me it's perfectly fine to buy whole lettuce instead of pre-cut and pre-packaged, as they say. lettuce packing. And there is a new trend, too, that proposes eating oranges instead of vitamin C supplements. It is called orangeeating.
