Our Airbnb is in the old town and close to a lot of action. Reviews for it had some complaints about the noise at night. We took this place because it fit our needs best in other ways, fingers crossed our earplugs would be effective enough. The windows are quite modern and “soundproof”. We do hear people talking and laughing and shouting in the streets all night, but it hasn’t been too bad with the good windows and it hasn’t kept us awake.
Things don’t get going until around 10:00 so we decided to try to stay up that late and go out and see what is going on while we are normally asleep. It actually seemed pretty mellow. Just a lot of people out sitting or standing in the street talking. We passed restaurants where people were just starting their dinner. One had a line of people waiting to get in.
Here are some photos. As you probably know, cellphone photos really light things up so it was actually darker than the photos appear. They sky was black, not blue.
Everything looks so polished and clean (well, maybe the dog spilled a few things), almost like a movie set. Kind of fun to see the night life. Although what we consider “nightlife” (parties and bar hopping) is just a regular social time for the Spaniards. (Same in Argentina and Uruguay).
You know I hadn’t thought about it, but you are right, the streets are really clean. We’ve noticed a small street cleaner truck come by often, perhaps every day. And, yes, this is a way of life. Not just a special occasion. We did notice it was very quiet last night (Sunday). Must be their evening of rest. We’ll see what happens tonight (Monday).
It is wonderful to see that people still live the “old way,” and not just on their phones. You see this in Austria too. America has it all wrong.
Yes, I hope they never lose this here in Europe and feel sad we’ve lost it in the US.