Archive for Spain
August 26, 2005 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Food, Spain
I’m already a huge fan of paella ever since first trying it in Sydney 10 years ago.
By the way, I love saying PAELLA. It’s pronounced PA-EH-YAH, not PA-EH-LAH.
There is Jeff’s vegetarian paella, my seafood paella, and two tapas dishes – Potatoes in Catalan garlic sauce and sauteed mushrooms.
By the way I came across this supercool Prawn thing. It’s about the size of a tiger prawn but has a hard outer shell. Tastes like a cross between lobster and prawns. Anyone shed some light on this? Any marine biologists out there??
Black Paella, made from ink squid !! A trivia for you, does it still come out black on the other end?
August 25, 2005 at 9:13 pm · Filed under Architecture, Culture, Spain
And this is what I woke up to…
… spot the Nouvel and Foster towers.
We got off the seaport and tried to catch taxis. But EVERY single one of them just stopped and took off when we showed them the address. Am I going to a really seedy part of town?
Later a local explained that we arrived at 2PM sharp, which means lunchtime for them. NO ONE works during lunch time. From 2PM to 4PM, absolute standstill. The whole city just shuts down for two hours.
Our Hostel – Gat Xino Hostal
Really funky place. Feels queasy waking up in the morning, crawl your way to the toilet that’s totally GREEN.
The Famous La Rambla of Barcelona
Extremely lively street, feels like a carnival. Apparently the Rambla started off more than a main street, it’s also the main “drain” of the Old Historical centre.
So it was designed so that all branching streets will dump their water there.
This street performer made a full outfit just from plastic bottles. Very ecological …
August 24, 2005 at 5:23 pm · Filed under Italy, Spain, Transit, Turkey
We’ve never really gave this part of the trip a name. So just wrote it as The Great Crossing in our schedule and name stucked somehow. It’s the bit where we cross the whole European continent along the Mediterranean in one trip, from Istanbul to Barcelona.
We started off with a flight from Istanbul to Rome via Turkish Airlines. Pretty much a non-event because I was so flat out tired from the Conference.
When we got to Rome, the Airport “Express” was late and drove us nuts. Fortunately in a very Italian way, the train to Civitavecchia (Rome’s seaport) was late as well so it worked out.
This is one big chuck of a ferry. More like a cruiser but not really a luxury liner. It’s like a four star hotel on water with propellers. It was a good break cruising for two days on the Mediterranean.
July 11, 2005 at 6:41 pm · Filed under Spain, Uncategorized
First off, I want to say the THE VIDEOS ARE FIXED, GO BACK AND SEE THEM !!
I had just finish the longest singular route for my whole trip, flying halfway across Europe from Istanbul to Rome, then a ferry from Rome to Barcelona, a trip that took two days. My brain is tripping a little, which I really have to sort out because my Barcelona workshop begins tomorrow!!
Which brings me to how I will maintain the blog from now on. It’s pretty silly to update my studio stuff here, since this page is for “bringing Europe to you”. So I may post more culturally general stuff, like Tastebuds. Anyway, it also means less frequent updates in the coming days. I will resume my “backpacking” on the 28th of July by going to Helsinki in Finland, it will return to normal then.
This is also the only time I have to give the website a face-lift and possibly fill-in stuff like, a minimap of where I’ve been etc. We’ll see how we go, adios !!
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