El San Juan

... petit viatge d'un mes pot ser l'inici d'un altre gran viatge... Dins les possibilitats intentaré anar actualitzant aquest blog durant tot el mes. He posat aquesta foto perquè no sabia quina posar i si no en poso cap surt una bandera espanyola enorme.

... , geht es für mich weiter über Costa Rica und Panama nach Kolumbien. Nach einer Segeltour mit kurzem Zwischenstop im San Blas Archipel, komme ich schliesslich pünktlich zum Karneval an die kolumbianische Küste. Drei Monate Praktikum in San Gil und ein ...

El Peregrino Loco on the road to Santiago de Compostela from August to the end of September in 2008. Expect a lot of interesting people, marvellous landscape, and a lot of walking.

Having awaken from our hammock, we gently turned around to look at the jungle behind us making sure we were not being watched by a jaguar (as if we would find it out). The sun was already high up in the sky and the iguanas have already came out and ...

... San Cristobal we made our way down into town for lunch.  We happened upon a cute restaurant called Toro Salao (Tetuan 367, San Juan, Puerto Rico) which had outdoor seating & shade!  This was my favorite meal of the trip!  I devoured ...

... . I scurried through El Morro’s six levels in 38 minutes, wanting to save the last hour of daylight for wandering around Old San Juan’s southern city wall and cobblestoned streets. I made my way back to the city wall to watch the sun set over ...

... of Puerto Rico itself. Remnants of old cannons and a couple of working ones are preserved well. It has splendid views of both Old San Juan and particularly of the bay. We loved the sunset from there, it was amazing. Content with how we spent the day, we ...

... original massive wooden doors in the City Wall surrounding Old San Juan. Each night, the doors were closed at sundown to protect San Juan's inhabitants and impede access to the city. The Puerta de San Juan is actually a tunnel through the thick city ...

... some very familiar:   Pizza Hut, Subway, and many others), and museums.  The main fort is called El Morro.  It was built to protect San Juan Bay’s deep harbor from attack by sea.  We stayed there for about two hours.  I ...

We reached San Juan in the night and took a cab to the Sheraton which was our place of stay in the island. Sheraton is not far from the Luis Munoz Airport and it took us 20-25 minutes to get there. The weather was awesome, temperature was around 24degrees ...

On Friday, May 25, a group of seven of us departed Ft.Lauderdale Airport to go to San Juan, Puerto Rico for Memorial Day weekend.  The seven included: Lydia, Jared, Jeanette, Joel, Melanie, Agnerys, and ...

... the beach during the morning (the north end of Condado beach has several palm trees that provide shade), and evening strolls in Old San Juan followed by dinner and drinks. Old San Juan is the prettiest "downtown" that we've seen in the whole Caribbean, ...

Next stop on our journey was a small hotel called El Jardin, just outside san juan del sur. The hotel is on top of a very steep hill about three kilometers down a dirt track, the sort of road that makes an offroad driving experience exciting when you wear ...

... had only one bus-boy, so virtually no tables were clean. Hostess refused to clear anything saying, it was "Services job." But flight to San Juan was also on time. Felt like a very long flight. Kyla and I had bulkhead seats, so I least I didn't have to ...