Hotel Restaurante Juanito Baeza

... interesting to see. Next i took the metro to the centro de arte renia sofia, i really wanted to go here just because picasso's gurnica is housed here. to my pleasant surprise there was a special exhibition of picasso's work on and i had a great time looking through the 4 floors of his work. i also hired an audio guide to hear explanations of his work in english. after that i just went back to ...

... weeks. Thus, I should have a few minutes everyday to blog and add a photo or two so our friends and family can keep in touch with us. We have relied on the help of some International MBA students to help plan our travels. We have booked a recommended hotel in Rome and used a Egypt based travel service (Travco) for our Egypt portion of ...

... frowned upon to stay in a bar for longer than an hour or so. Oh, yeah. That's for losers. All the cool kids are hitting multiple bars on a night by night basis, and so did we. Oh, yeah: downtown Madrid is really nice. It won't take your breath away, but it's worth dropping your mom a small note about :)

... t have passwords. &^@*&#!!! Well, that has the potential to suck! But Augustin happens to come by, and tells me our client gave him the password to give us. Excellent! The password works, and we start to do our thing. Augustin and I both talk with the client on the phone a short while later, and she confirms she will be coming in. In the mean time, password in hand, we start setting up and checking each computer. Windows is (of course) in Spanish on each of ...

... Brilliant.

Through the lovely, English, dreaded, eco-warrior couple Ali and Meg at the Magic Roundabout, (www.magicroundabout.info) we had arranged to stay with a family for 3 weeks until New Year. As a community, Las Palmas is now thinking of ways to attract more eco-tourists and visitors to the Quijos region as it is of direct consequence that the area will become protected, respected and visited and so positively impacting on the local people in return and ...

... showed pencil and charcoal work and mainly straight traditional styles before he became more abstract in his art. Picasso was born in 1881 and it was around 1920 that his more popular abstract work developed. A guide book told us that some of these designs contained what were said to be images of cats or dogs. Some were a bit difficult to identify as that. The building that housed the Picasso collection was around 1700 vintage and with its courtyards and large potted plants was a fitting ...

... packed with wealth donated from the spanish royals, there is a really famous item here, a vial containing the blood of Christ, apparently once a year on the anniversary of his death it liquifies (I take their word that it does, but can assure you that what I saw was dry, not liquid) then the zoo, bit of a strange call, but weird and wonderful animals are great, and after an entire life in africa, you pretty much know the big 5 and such, but a tapir for example is an ...

... was quite a difference between this place which was occupied purely by gringos and those in Banos.Left the springs after sundown for the remaining drive in to Quito where we were allowed out alone for dinner-going back to the bar we visited for a beer on our first visit.Had to be good-the bouncers were armed and you weren't allowed to take in your own guns!

deciding it would be nice to not only see how the locals lived, i figured it was only right to see how they died...so off me and my argentinian friend were to the local cemetary and its church...after agreeing that walking around inside the church while a funeral is going on is not socially acceptable, we vacated and proceeded to the cemetary...here, they dont just dig a hole in the ground and shove you in...if you have the money, you basically move into an ...

El Fin de semana con la señorita Valo This weekend I had a visitor from Stockholm, Sweden for 5 days and 4 nights, although it turned into 5 nights...more about that later. Ilana Valo (Valo) arrived Thursday afternoon. She patiently waited and hour and a half in the airport for me, since I got on the wrong train and ended up outside BCN before turning around, going back to where I started, getting on the correct rain and ending up at the airport. At least the man who checks the ...