Monthly Archives: September 2011

Stoic monkey

Day 120: Monkeying Around

Algeciras, Spain – Gibraltar, UK – Algeciras, Spain We totally would have pulled off a few of this in Gibraltar, cos the town sucks. But these, taken mostly up the Gilbratar’s rock, made up for all the suckiness :]  Mission macaque-smuggling-in-backpack failed though. These monkeys […]

Airplane landing

Day 119: Meet Me at the Stereo Store Next to the Dead Fountain

Mijas Coste – Marbella – Algeciras, Spain – Gibraltar, UK – Algeciras, Spain Time to move on! We got all too comfy at David’s. Finally, we’re leaving Mijas to catch a bus from Marbella to Algeciras. Algeciras is a Spanish town without anything interesting. The […]

David, David Jr. and Blanca

Day 118: Two Cameras, Five Souls and A Pool

Mijas Coste, Spain David’s kids Blanca and David Jr were spending the weekend with their Papi. These kids are just as fun and as loco as the dad. All of us had a wild session of photo taking. I finally got to use the Pentax […]

David's Paella

Day 117: Paella Paella Paella Without Ingredient

Mijas Coste – Marbella – Mijas Coste, Spain Another lazy day. Woke up  at almost 11. Made paella  for lunch at 2. Here’s the secret to David’s Paella-Without-Ingredient: 1. Sing the Paella anthem 2. Put together the ingredient (basically whatever you have) 3. Throw them […]

Cruisin' to Malaga

Day 116: Time Slows Down

Mijas Coste – Malaga – Mijas Coste, Spain I don’t think I had woken up as late as today since my whole tripl. It was good to slow down the pace. It’s hard not to, considering Davids town, Mijas Coste, is totally a vacation town […]

Sagrada Familia

Day 115: Lust for Life

Sant Boi – Barcelona – Sant Boi – Malaga – Mijas Costa, Spain I would bet my money that Gaudi was one of the following: a) an alien b) once captured by Martians and spent a good amount of his time in the outerspace colony […]

Gaudi's Mosaic

Day 114: Pink Orange Red

Sant Boi – Barcelona – Sant Boi, Spain So Pedro had to work today and Marta didn’t. Marta brought me to Park Guell, which is a public park designed by Gaudi. The park was packed with tourists. Probably because it’s Gaudi and it’s free. We […]

Catalan's giants

Day 113: Vintage Future

Sant Boi – Barcelona – Sant Boi, Spain Pedro and Marta spent their precious day off showing me around Barcelona. It so happened that today was Catalan national holiday. Catalunya is one of the seventeen autonomous communities in the Kingdom of Spain, which its capital […]

Avignon

Day 112: Ola!!!

Nice – Avignon, France – Barcelona – Sant Boi, Spain I didn’t really “see” Avignon. However, I was physically there for 45 mins, so here: Upon arriving in Barcelona, I took a half hour metro ride to the suburb to a town called Sant Boi. […]

Last view of Switzerland

Day 111: Slipping Away

Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland – Lake Como, Italy – Nice, France Honestly, I don’t remember much of the day. I was dozing off most of my time on the full-day bus trip. Lake Como seemed like a nice place to stop in on next time around. Why? […]

Ice Age squirrel

Day 110: Between Heaven and Earth

Lauterbrunnen – Eigerwand – Eismeer – Jungfraujoch – Eigergletscher – Lauterbrunnen , Switzerland Leah and I woke up crazy early in the morning and saved some 30 euros to get the cheap early bird ticket to Jungfraujoch, Top of Europe (highest peak in Europe). By […]

Crazy dude biking the alps

Day 109: With Capabilities Like No Others

Lauterbrunnen – Murren – Grimmenwald – Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland My morning paragliding excursion was cancelled due to the weather  Good thing the rest of the day made up for the disappointment. I went hiking with a bunch of people: Honey, Leah, Nick, Ronnie and Daniel. Good […]