Category: Spain
(and the psychology of travelling)
What we did after the market
Category: MadridTags: church, fried fish, Madrid, monastery, roadtrip, ruins, spain, stork, tapas, torrelaguna, travel
Posted on May 25, 2014
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A day out of town
Category: MadridTags: algete, bacon, flower, food, Madrid, market, Mercado de las Flores, Parque Europa, queso cabral, Santander, sidra, spain
Posted on February 5, 2014
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The followup to “Indian Secret Sunday”
Posted on February 1, 2014
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My week in Valdelavilla
Posted on January 26, 2014
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I tripped over a post on facebook two weeks ago. It said something like this: Don’t know what’s going on in this photo? Like this page to know what you missed. A photo was attached, of a laid table with food on it. I… Continue Reading “Indian Secret Sunday”
Category: SpainTags: black and white, event, exciting, facebook, fb, food, India, indian food, Madrid, mystery, page, photo, photography, secret, secret sunday, supper club
Posted on October 31, 2013
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I’m currently going to a gym. It’s a new kind of gym: very small, women-only, slow-but-constant concept sort of thing. I usually go about three times a week and am quite proud of myself. This morning I was in the changing room. The doors… Continue Reading “Undressed”
Category: SpainTags: call, changing room, church, clothes, confusion, dressing room, excercise, gym, habit, nun, phone, religion, religious, rosary, undressed, wimple, workout
Posted on October 7, 2013
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A few weeks ago as we were strolling in Valencia, the day before the encounter with the JellyFish(er)-man, my boyfriend and I found a box full of treasures. Not all of them were treasures for us, so we left a handful of objects for… Continue Reading “An unexpected treasure”
Category: Books, SpainTags: antique book, bull, gay, histoire naturelle illustree des animaux du monde, literature, paella, philippe hettinger, spain, torero, travel, Valencia
Posted on August 4, 2013
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A surprise monument full of history
Posted on July 30, 2013
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Valencia, Spain. One very particular day at the beach. Finally we found a larger road, slid onto it and spotted a sign pointing out a beach. We followed a dirt road, parked when it finished and walked towards the Mediterranean sea. We… Continue Reading “A day at the beach”
Category: SpainTags: clotxina, cozze, dragonflies, dragonfly, egret, El Palmar, fine dining, food, heron, jellyfish, la albufera, libellula, medusa, mejillon, mussel, navigator, paddy, rice, rice paddies, spain, tinto de verano, Valencia
Posted on July 14, 2013
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Warm colours seem to be recurrent in Spanish cities. Santander is an orange city with a darker terra di Siena background. When I arrived it was drizzling; chirimiri is the name for it up here – an ethereal layer of wetness that covers everything with… Continue Reading “Santander”
Category: SpainTags: beach, bodega, Bodega La Conveniente, chirimiri, civil war, clouds, drizzle, humidity, Mistela, rain, Raqueros, Santander, Sardinero, Spagna, spain, statue, sun, sweet wine
Posted on July 4, 2013
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A Xylocopa sp. on our lavender. We have a very narrow windowsill but still managed to plant a handful of aromatic plants…and we are not the only ones that are enjoying them!
Category: Garden, MadridTags: aromatic, aromatica, aromatiche, gardening, giardinaggio, hymenoptera, imenottero, insect, insetto, lavanda, lavender, Madrid, pianta, plant, Spagna, spain, Xylocopa
Posted on March 13, 2013
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I consider myself a social person. I knew this already, but I finally knew it on the day I had my “Saturday quest” in Granada. I was feeling lonely and set myself some tasks to do that sunny, sunny autumn day so I’d feel as if… Continue Reading “Never Alone”
Category: Self, SpainTags: alone, anglophone, art, chatting, coffee, concert, dance, dancers, dancing, el niño de las pinturas, extrovert, free tour, friend, friends, granada, guide, jazz, lonely, mural, murals, opinion, photo, photography, shy, social, street art, swing, talking, tapa
Posted on November 25, 2012
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A young, bearded man sitting on a stool behind a cardboard box, covered with a cloth typing on an old, black typewriter in candlelight. On a sign, the handwritten words: Free Poems Poemas Gratis On the cardboard box, covered with the cloth, in front… Continue Reading “The essence of decadence”
Category: SpainTags: bulgaria, decadence, decadenza, free, free poems, granada, gratis, nicolas, nicolas ramajo chiacchio, poema, poemas, poems, poesia, poesie, poet, poeta, poetry
Together with Nicole Duplaix, Chair of the IUCN-SSC Otter Specialist Group , I wrote a book all about otters and how wonderful they are. Check it out We Love Otters