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We are sitting at the port of Portbou checking messages, feeling the sun on us while the children play at floating walnut shells in the sea. Henry has found lots of little sea creatures which he's been putting into walnut shells with sea water. Very funny.

While Wendy was using the computer I was handing out walnuts to people near us. First some English types, they didn't say much but liked the walnuts. We got the walnuts at the market which is here today, the man was very generous, way too generous and so we had to start giving some away. He was also selling big bags of live snails. The poor things were trying to get out of the mesh bags but could only get their bodies out. Henry said "they'll escape", I didn't think so but he said "They can get out of their shells