Spring break!

Probably no one would say that my new apartment is in a good location -- it's far from the center and the subway -- but it is close to the beach. And I like the neighborhood. It's warehouse-y and there's a family of gypsies that has a home but generally occupies a little side street around the corner, and there are cats and at least one French bulldog.

But the new neighborhood is on hold for a while, because tonight I leave for two weeks of vacation: spring break in the Baltics. I think it will be a good trip and I'm looking forward to it, but it's also true that when I checked the Tallinn weather yesterday, it was 0.9 degrees Celsius and raining and snowing. Latvia and Lithuania might be a little warmer, anyway.

One of the reasons for the Baltics is that my work visa expires today, so if I really want to do this whole immigration thing according to Hoyle, I should leave Spain and then re-enter as a tourist. I didn't realize until after I bought the plane tickets that all three Baltic states have been part of the European Union for almost a decade and there almost definitely won't be passport control. Man, sometimes I still really suck at travel.