Just some photos of the tennis match between Spain and USA.

Meteo du matin, légèrement ensoleillée, 12 degrés. De l'aéroport, nous avons pris le métro pour arriver en centre ville 30mn plus tard, et à 500m de l'hotel Lido. En apres midi, petite marche vers certains points du centre ville, et comme il commencait á pleuvoir, on a pris le bus des tours de ville pour effectuer les 2 différents circuits. Au c...

This was awesome. The hotel really deserves what it costs, though i didn't have much time to spend inside it, 'cos i wanted to explore as much as i can the city. I also visited Toledo, one of the most impressive cities i've ever known. You enter to the city, and you are automatically transported to the Middle Age. Everything seems to form a Knig...

Another crazy plan!!!! I´m on my way to Orjiva to spend some time at the Dragon festival (a free music festival, near Granada).. With some complications and delay I finally found my way out of Matavenero again... I got a lift to Benavente with someone who lives some times in the village. He went to Tamera, a (spiritual) community in Portugal, to...

Madrid was very different than the other cities we have visited so far in Spain. the train ride here Tuesday morning started out like before of desert stretching forever, but gradually changed to hills of pine trees for a prettier view. Madrid itself is very large and very lush, with a huge park and mountains all around town, definitely a displa...

So the night before last, we went to sleep around 1230am...super early by spanish standards. Nick figured we´d be up by 930 or 10...but i set an alarm for 1120 just in case. we had to be out of our hostel by 12. next thing we know its 1120 as the alarm goes off and we are both sound asleep. nick admits he didn´t figure into his equaiton that we ...

"Me da mala espina." It makes my backbone bad: this is one of my favourite expressions in Spanish. It's the bad side of a gut feeling, and, waking up this morning at 5:48, hearing the rain pound on the cobblestones outside of the refuge, hearing Santiago shifting in his sleeping bag, I thought: No. Something in my gut, my spine, told me that thi...

Flying to Madrid on my own was very strange after 2 years of almost constant travel with Mandy. Getting lost on the subway system into the city centre also immediately disproved my theory of me being the one with the sense of direction!! I checked into Cats Hostel which was a cool building with decent dorms and a traditional courtyard area to re...

My first full day in Madrid, and I woke up to rain. Pouring rain. I think it´s my fault though. I must have bragged about my first 4 weeks of gorgeous weather one too many times, and the clouds decided to roll on in once I reached Granada. Cordoba it poured too and I think that´s where I caught a cold. So it was a good museum day I figured. Walk...