If you decide to take a walk around Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Spain on a December night, brace yourself for the crowd. I’m talking people-power crowd here, the kind that can topple you over should someone decide to shout “fuego!”. Puerta del Sol is one of the most crowded squares in Spain, especially during […]
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 […]