This day last year, I was taking a walk along Calle Sant Sever in Barcelona when I chanced upon these wonderful stalls selling Christmas decors. I am embarrassed to admit that it was the first time I have ever seen Christmas decors made from real and fresh (read: not plastic) pine leaves, branches, twigs and…
Around this time last year, I was fortunate enough to have travelled to Barcelona. It was autumn. The weather was beginning to get a bit nasty and I was unprepared for the biting cold. But Barcelona is such a beautiful city that it was easy to forget the weather and focus on the wonderful…
june, 2008 day 14 on the way to san sebastian, spain flowers everywhere! in the fields, in between great boulders of rock, at the foot of roadsigns between busy intersections. flowers everywhere! growing on the backrest of a chair carelessly left to rot by the roadside, triumphantly creeping over the walls of abandoned cottages, or…
Speaking of the Camino de Santiago, here’s a teaser of the documentary about the author Paolo Coelho’s pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. At 38, he walked the Camino de Santiago and the experience changed his life significantly. I hope to have the same ‘breakthrough’ when I walk the Camino a couple of years from now. …