Ambulando

Looking at people behind the windows of a bar sipping coffe. Quite banal, isn’t it? Especially when it is a Starfucksbucks, and your breakfast is a Egg White Delice Ciabatta, whatever it means, and you’re sipping a plain flat american coffee. I corrected mine with a dash of cream (a cloud, as Yanez De Gomera […]

Beijing at 4.30 in the morning. A misty light reveals the city profile and it could be easily New York now. Food stalls at the corners of the streets sell breakfast of dumplings and kebabb and tea. Chinese girls search for taxis or any ride home. Chinese girls wear mini skirts and short very short […]

So, Biejing got a night life. And a rich one, it looks to me. The first time I cames, two weeks ago, with my French equipe, our night life was limited to be ripped off in a overpriced bar (80 YUAN for a beer! average price is 10), a sleepy night in a small bar […]

There is a saying about peyote. They say that, once you find one, you will see all the others around. But not before you have found that first one. I do not know how much true is this, I firmly believes in magic of the desert, but I never went searching for peyote. When in […]

So at least I fix one of my problems. I had to bite a bitter morsel and make a little compromise for my flyless trip, but at the end I would be in Hong Kong on time for my flight to Europe. I booked a flight to Shenzen and from there I can reach Hong […]

my trip got a huge blow yesterday! The agency in Singapore told me that all the passenger service are suspended from Singapore. The only other way to get to Australia by boat it is to embark in China or South Corea or Taiwan. It means at the end it could not be possible for me […]

Electric Scooter you do not see them. you do not hear them. but there they are. silent. waiting for you. they are shaolin monks in disguise. they leave no marks on the sand. they hit when you are off guard. they are at your back. and they beep. suddenly. and you jump.

yawn. coffee. fresh water. eyes eyes. black black. sleep. minute. hour. midday. connection. slow. coffee. moka. shower. water water. hair. beard. soap. eye. night. kebab. Bismillah. ir-Rahman. ir-Rahim. bar bar. beer beer. wine. rice. rice tequila shot. salt too salt. lemon no juice. music music. loud. beer beer. screwdriver. screw. brain. out. eyes. wine wine. […]

First thing about Beijing is heat. That kind of heatt I felt before only in D.F.: humid and damp, sticky, smelly with different flavours to the point of being flavourless, sweaty and sweety. The heat I love. The heat coming from any city whose population surpass 20 million souls. A sort of South b/heat. Now, […]

One of the principal reason to make Mongolia was horse riding. Not that I am a good rider, but I like it, and I was eager to learn from people that literally (and literaryly) lives on horse’s saddle. I got my ride at the end, but it was more a Luna Park ride than the […]

Berlin is on the list of likely destination for working after this trip. I would prefer to stay in Barcelona, but if the condition are not the ones I want, I am prepared to sell myself to some other country willing to pay me. So it could be Berlin, or London again (me not very […]

Leaving is not always the easy bit of a trip. You will be never sure of everything is right, if something has been going missing during the night (it happens, it is the monaceddhru at work), if you forgot something that has no importance now but that would be disastrous in a few days. In […]

In 2001 I was living in Colchester, a small town in Essex, a one hour train ride from London and one hour bus ride to Stansted. There was an University and some military training camps. After a few intense months in Dublin, I was lost in the middle of the English countryside. With a job, […]

Following an hint from a post from Peter Moore, one of my preferred travel writer, I listed my top loved 5 town. Of course the list could be longer, but I did not travel enough, so for now, here they are: 1. Barcelona Barcelona is summer blues. is barbeque smell on the roofs, is cerveza […]