Cecilia's window

I love these third- and fourth-floor apartments that look out over a vast landscape of rooftops and clotheslines. It has always been my dream to live in an apartment like this. Houses don't appeal to me. I have never liked gardening and would prefer to avoid lawn upkeep altogether. One day, I will live in a community of rooftops and drying clothes. It's an image--the shirts, socks and footballs that your neighbors have lost, the occasional head peering out of a window, the dozens of quirky weathervanes--that I absolutely adore. My apartment has a similar view, but it's a very different feeling from El Raval, the neighborhood in this picture. It's something that I'll really miss when I leave Barcelona.