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Gallery: Laughing Lisa

Wednesday, 18 Oct 2006 | Photo Gallery

Barcelona pics
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Laughing Lisa

Wednesday, 18 Oct 2006 | Views [804]

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


Flat luck!

Thursday, 5 Oct 2006 | Views [1013]

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


Gallery: Barcelona - again!

Tuesday, 26 Sep 2006 | Photo Gallery

La Merce festival
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Barcelona - again!

Tuesday, 26 Sep 2006 | Views [879]

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


Gallery: Medieval Malaga

Sunday, 17 Sep 2006 | Photo Gallery

Malaga´s monuments
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Gallery: Andalucian Tranquility: Part Two.

Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 | Photo Gallery

Cadiz and Sevilla!
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Andalucian Tranquility: Part Two.

Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 | Views [1592]

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


Gallery: Andalucian Tranquility: Part One

Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 | Photo Gallery

Heaven on Earth!
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Andalucian Tranquility: Part One.

Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 | Views [1538]

"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 Without A Map? Part 2.

Friday, 11 Aug 2006 | Views [1453]

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


Gallery: Barcelona easy

Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Photo Gallery

Barcelona Beach and flat
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¿Spain Without A Map? Part One.

Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Views [1484]

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


Barcelona easy.

Sunday, 6 Aug 2006 | Views [1497]

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


Gallery: Spinning in Spain

Tuesday, 13 Jun 2006 | Photo Gallery

Feel Spain
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Last of Barc - pt2

Thursday, 1 Jun 2006 | Views [548]

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


Last of Barc

Thursday, 1 Jun 2006 | Views [572]

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


"Barca, Barca, Barca!"

Wednesday, 31 May 2006 | Views [1713]

Ola! If you want to sit on the beach, relax your brain and not be disturbed till your holiday ends, don't come to Barcelona! Don´t get too confused that every second place name here includes the words 'la ramblas:' this literally means ... Read more >

Tags: Culture


First installment, take #3!

Wednesday, 24 May 2006 | Views [433] | Comments [3]

Hola everyone, This place is insane! I can´t get over the colourful collaboration of peoples, the thousands of years of intricately decorated gottica buildings layered in ´rambles´over each other. A feast for the eyes! Just take it easy, hold ... Read more >

Tags: Philosophy of travel

 

 

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