The baker gives me my coffee with milk and says: "Oh, girl, sorry, I only slept two hours today and I'm..." The retirees having breakfast put down their phones and conversations and listen. "So how come you slept two hours? Was your night complicated?" I ask, laughing. "Complicating the night" is the funny synonym for when someone has had a date that ended with a handstand. "I went to Sabina!" he exclaims.

"It's wonderful to sing with you," Joaquín Sabina repeated several times. That was it, to sing for the last time accompanying the singer-songwriter from Úbeda. "It's wonderful," he insisted, overwhelmed by the response of the audience that filled the Palau Sant Jordi for the first of Sabina's last two concerts in Barcelona (the second is on Saturday). Tickets were sold out and everyone was seated in their seats when the performance began at 9:20 p.m., twenty minutes later than scheduled precisely to allow time for those who suffered circulatory collapse due to The demonstration protesting the Israeli assault on the flotilla that wanted to reach Gaza.