Tempest Trails
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SPAIN | Wednesday, 18 Oct 2006 | Views [221]
I spent much of the next two weeks learning about Barcelona´s countercultural philosophies, debates and practices. I met people from all over the world and started picking up my Spanish again. In the meantime, I was also still searching for a new flat ... Read more >
Tags: People
SPAIN | Thursday, 5 Oct 2006 | Views [302]
Although I had been fairly ill since coming back to Barcelona, I was well aware that my two month sublease expired on October 1st, less than one week away. I searched through www.loquo.com, where I had found the current flat in less than three days, ... Read more >
Tags: People
SPAIN | Tuesday, 26 Sep 2006 | Views [226]
I spent the next three days hibernating, catching up on paperwork and overdue website blogs (:)) and doggedly transferring my photos from my overloaded camera phone onto my long missed laptop. I was sill fairly ill, but happy to finally be back and ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
MOROCCO | Sunday, 17 Sep 2006 | Views [647]
With a heavy heart I journeyed in one, long bus trip all the way from Essouaira to Tangiers (about fifteen house including stop offs). I skipped the tour of Tangiers again and headed straight for the port, taking the fast ferry back to Algeciras.... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
MOROCCO | Monday, 11 Sep 2006 | Views [491]
I contacted my housemates back in Barcelona to let them know I was alright and stayed in Rabat for the next week, meeting people, getting used to the culture, asking questions and getting organised for the trip down South. I went to visit a shop where ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
MOROCCO | Monday, 28 Aug 2006 | Views [678]
On Friday I was just about ready to head back up to Spain, satisfied with my short stay in Morocco and promising myself a more substantial visit sometime in the distant future. As I was taking one last look around the Medina, I bumped into Bob who worked ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
MOROCCO | Friday, 25 Aug 2006 | Views [586] | Comments [2]
The next day we wandered into the market area of the Medina at around 2pm for some lunch, but once again found it sparesely populated. It turns out that like in Spain, Morocco also has a siesta, from about 1 or 2 in the afternoon until around 5 o´clock.... Read more >
Tags: Culture
MOROCCO | Tuesday, 22 Aug 2006 | Views [320]
Early on Saturday morning, I bade a hearty farewell to Pablo at Sevilla´s bus station, then prepared for the next leg of my adventure. I bussed from Sevilla to Algeciras all Saturday morning and met up with the Austrian couple (Barry and Beth) there ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
SPAIN | Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 | Views [387]
The next evening I found myself in Cadiz, dropped off by the most hospitable resident in all of Andalusia, Pablo, who gave me a quick tour of the town and insisted I come stay with him and his family in Sevilla after I´d seen Cadiz. I took his number ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
SPAIN | Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 | Views [440]
"Is it morning already¨?" Consciousness seeped in through my fuzziness and revealed the wafting beachcomber voices and brilliant sunshine to actually be a bright torch brandished by a pair of Andalucian policemen babbling at me in Spanish.... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
SPAIN | Friday, 11 Aug 2006 | Views [535]
Our first night in Algeciras we slept near the beach three in the car again and awoke early for a morning swim at the beach before cleaning and returning the car. After a few hours of nervously driving around this overcrowded Spanish port town unable ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
SPAIN | Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Views [384]
From the Boom festival in Portugal to a week in Morocco: boy, do plans have a habit of changing! My day bag was already packed of a weeklong camping festival in Portugal, so it was a small matter to swap a few items to be more suited to a week of hotels ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
SPAIN | Sunday, 6 Aug 2006 | Views [473]
On Saturday I woke up late and headed to Barcelona beach for a few hours for some sun, surf and a much needed 5 euro Thai massage. There I bumped into some friends I knew from the last time I was in Barcelona in May, who invited me to come to a nightclub ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 28 Jul 2006 | Views [413] | Comments [1]
To all those eagerly awaiting the next installments of my blog: sorry for the delay folks. A slight unpredictable adventure through the south of Spain and Morocco separated me from my computor for a while. All details in good time, though in this ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Views [635] | Comments [1]
Play
To Your Heart’s Content!
What a crazy first weekend of July! I got a lift from some people I met at the
fire twirling meets on Monday nights in the Meadows in Edinburgh
down to the Play festival near Shrewsbury in ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 5 Jul 2006 | Views [817]
Well, the sunny weather didn't last long and the winds and gales Scotland
is better known for have returned. The days are still about 18 hours
long, with sunrise arriving before 4am any day. In the past two weeks I
have explored Edinburgh
a ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 3 Jul 2006 | Views [336]
Play
To Your Heart’s Content!
What a crazy first weekend of July! I got a lift from some people I met at the
fire twirling meets on Monday nights in the Meadows in Edinburgh
down to the Play festival near Shrewsbury in ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 17 Jun 2006 | Views [689]
Send my love to the Winter gales in Australia. I'm staying in sunny Scotland! So I finally made it to Scotland late Saturday night and was picked up at Glasgow Pickwick airport by a good friend I hadn’t seen in a few years (a warming ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
SPAIN | Thursday, 1 Jun 2006 | Views [201]
Retrospective: 1/ 06/ 2006 Continued: Thursday, unfortunately, I missed my plane to Scotland (yeah, yeah: laugh it up!). I had managed to purchase cheap plane tickets by choosing to leave from an airport further afield. I arrived at the ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
SPAIN | Thursday, 1 Jun 2006 | Views [219]
Retrospective: Written on 1/6/ 2006 - Part 1 (too big to install in a single sitting) Lil ol me in the wilds of Spain & loving it! If you don't speak Spanish, don't worry too much: they are very sympathetic over this way because they can't ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
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