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1 week before San Juan/ 1 semana antes de San Juan

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The Spanish festival San Juan is around the corner. Each year people of this country celebrate the shortest night of year, or the arrival of high summer in different ways. Famous east coast, like Barcelona , opens seaside for bonfires and fireworks, so it’s ideal to spend a short night and wait for a beautiful sunrise. Yesterday in underground I spotted this advertisement of local metro/ railway services: NO PARA, NO PARA, NO PARA, means Nonstop, nonstop, nonstop. Since normally public transport runs overnight only on Saturdays and special events, this reminds people they will have same convenience to travel as they like this year on that magically fire-lighted night. Well, the design of a subway train (Metro) and a long-distance train (Renfe) running on a Moebius Strip can be no simpler: (though a little bit horrible that they might crash), the idea that there is no end of their way comes out quite straight. Yet I could not help thinking directly of the incident on San Juan last