Madrid is warming up for the elections and everyday something new is been inaugurated (i.e. New Metro stations, a tunnel at the ring road M-30, which is meant to be the longest tunnel for a city – 12 km, …).
I arrived to Spain in time to say goodby to Ysabelle (Canadian friend whom doesn´t know what she is doing…) before starting the Santiago de Compostela pilgrim path. I also went to Ana and Vicent´s weeding in Lerma (Burgos). They took me the travelling lead and left Madrid EAST towards Asia and plan to arrive from the WEST in 5 weeks time (i.e. round-the-wold-trip).
My village Fuentelisendo is getting ready for the summer with the summing pool that Jose (my brother) and Laura are building although have not worked out what is going to be the admission system. We celebrated mother’s day with “la Rafa” and enjoyed very much the countryside which was very pretty after a rainy winter.
I arrived to Madrid a week ago from Santiago de Chile after spending two weeks in Chilean land. I had a very good time in the three places I was: National Park Torres del Paine, Chiloé and Santiago de Chile.
The south of Chile is similar in a way to the south of New Zealand. Thank you Cecilia for hosting me at your house in Punta Arenas. If you ever visit Puerto Natales I recommend to visit a wine and cheese shop at Eberhard street (not in the Lonely Planet…). Here I was suggested to visit Chiloé which was my next stop.
I originally planned to stay for two days and ended up staying four! I really liked it and I founded it very special. I liked its arquitecture , its green colours, its sea food, its people, its MAM (Museo de Arte Moderno) – thank you Eduard Rojas for pushing all projects as well as your time.
To Santiago I flew Aerolíneas del Sur and when reading the onboard magazine I founded out that Mr. Enrique Meliá (fomer CEO of Spanair) was its CEO. Everyone in Chile was talking about “Transantiago”, a restructure of Santiago´s city (not public) transport with which nobody was happy. These local problems from the capitol affecting the whole country gives and indication about Chile been a very centralised country.
Thank you “my sangre” for your hospitality, for taking me to visit Casablanca Valley wine region and in general for your generosity. Now I can say that I know few good Chilean gossip…
Thank also Iona you for presenting some of your best friends. As you can imagine I have to get back to Chile: I have to return the Terremoto invitation at La piojera I have to return Machuque movie which I really enjoyed on my return fligh.
Now, I have to go because I am going to go to the post office in order to put my vote for the 27th of May elections. Just in case I am on the road again…
I arrived to Spain in time to say goodby to Ysabelle (Canadian friend whom doesn´t know what she is doing…) before starting the Santiago de Compostela pilgrim path. I also went to Ana and Vicent´s weeding in Lerma (Burgos). They took me the travelling lead and left Madrid EAST towards Asia and plan to arrive from the WEST in 5 weeks time (i.e. round-the-wold-trip).
My village Fuentelisendo is getting ready for the summer with the summing pool that Jose (my brother) and Laura are building although have not worked out what is going to be the admission system. We celebrated mother’s day with “la Rafa” and enjoyed very much the countryside which was very pretty after a rainy winter.
I arrived to Madrid a week ago from Santiago de Chile after spending two weeks in Chilean land. I had a very good time in the three places I was: National Park Torres del Paine, Chiloé and Santiago de Chile.
The south of Chile is similar in a way to the south of New Zealand. Thank you Cecilia for hosting me at your house in Punta Arenas. If you ever visit Puerto Natales I recommend to visit a wine and cheese shop at Eberhard street (not in the Lonely Planet…). Here I was suggested to visit Chiloé which was my next stop.
I originally planned to stay for two days and ended up staying four! I really liked it and I founded it very special. I liked its arquitecture , its green colours, its sea food, its people, its MAM (Museo de Arte Moderno) – thank you Eduard Rojas for pushing all projects as well as your time.
To Santiago I flew Aerolíneas del Sur and when reading the onboard magazine I founded out that Mr. Enrique Meliá (fomer CEO of Spanair) was its CEO. Everyone in Chile was talking about “Transantiago”, a restructure of Santiago´s city (not public) transport with which nobody was happy. These local problems from the capitol affecting the whole country gives and indication about Chile been a very centralised country.
Thank you “my sangre” for your hospitality, for taking me to visit Casablanca Valley wine region and in general for your generosity. Now I can say that I know few good Chilean gossip…
Thank also Iona you for presenting some of your best friends. As you can imagine I have to get back to Chile: I have to return the Terremoto invitation at La piojera I have to return Machuque movie which I really enjoyed on my return fligh.
Now, I have to go because I am going to go to the post office in order to put my vote for the 27th of May elections. Just in case I am on the road again…
