{"id":9326,"date":"2019-07-23T05:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2019-07-23T06:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:02:23","slug":"estar-en-babia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=9326","title":{"rendered":"Estar en Babia"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a phrase some Spanish children hear all the time in school, “\u00bfEst\u00e1s en Babia?” It is our equivalent of, “Are you daydreaming?”<\/p>\n

“To be in Babia” became an easy way to describe someone who was someplace else mentally. The phrase goes back to the kings and queens of Spain when they would leave their castles and political responsibilities and head for the mountains. They would disconnect in the silence of nature. Babia is a comarca (larger than our counties, but smaller than our states) in the northern mountains of Spain, about an hour and a half north of us.<\/p>\n

We visited for a few days, wanting to escape and “estar en Babia.”<\/p>\n

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