One of the places that fascinated us when we first visited Valencia, 6 months ago, was a small group of strange trees in the Turia park. They had a bizarre trunk, swollen at the bottom and thinner at the top, a lot of thorns and curiously shaped leaves.

They looked straight from a Harry Potter movie set. Hence, we called them "the Harry Potter trees".

Today we revisited that place, in a short walk after lunch. That's how the small forrest looked like:

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It was the same and yet, we had a different feeling.

The park was almost empty (probably because of the soccer game between Valencia FC and Leganos, probably because there was siesta time, or probably because in the autumn there are simply less people in the town). The sun was shining in an unexpected clear sky window, after a night filled with "gota fria" sessions. The grass under the trees was humid, but not too much, almost like dew drops on the morning.

We sat down on the grass for a few minutes and soaked in the sun.

Last time we saw it, this place was part of the "remote and exotic places" category, as opposed to the "places we can see all the time" category.

Now it felt familiar. We knew we can just take a 10 minutes walk if we want to stay there again. It was part of our proximity, part of our immediate story.

I wish I had something more clever to end this article with, but I don't.

I'm just dumbly fascinated by how we can make places we saw only a couple of times feel like "home".

Previous posts in the challenge:

• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day One: All Ultramarathons Start With Just One Small Step
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Two: How Much Garbage Do You Carry With You?
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Three: Pushing Things To Happen Versus Letting Them Happen "Through" You
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Four: The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly On The Plain
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Five: Books, Coffee And The Smell Of A Gentle Autumn

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