It's been almost two years!

Breathtaking view of the 13th-century Alhambra Palace from the Mirador San Nicolás. Behind La Alhambra you can see la Sierra Nevada (Snowy Peak) that is only 30-something minutes away by car.

... since the last time I posted here. A lot of things have happened, of course, I moved countries, about three times... maybe four. I started a new job. I visited cities that I've never knew before like Athens, Brest and Granada. And I started a new project called Minimaps. I've been meaning to come here and tell you. And here I am. Better late than never.

I'll illustrate this post with the photos of my latest trip to Granada, that I just posted in Minimaps blog. Please enjoy, have a look at Minimaps and get involved if you want, it's a collective placemaking project, and if you have a couple of free days coming and you have no idea where to go, book a ticket a to Granada, it's an amazing place.

Super happy new year to all!

Going up the Albaicín neighborhood: houses and the little orange trees you can find everywhere in Granada.

They are SO beautiful.

Food, food, food. Granada and the whole south of Spain is very famous for their delicious and ver generous tapas. Also, being Granada very close to the sea it's fish dishes are delish!

Santa: What happened last night?

Holidays in Italy V

I don't know why I have so few photos of Bellagio, it's an incredible place. If ever in Como, you really have to go, visit the gardens of Villa Melzi, and after that as usual, have a Spritz in a terrace (:

First four photos are Bellagio, last two are Cernobbio, a cute little town close to Como. You can get there in the vaporetto.

Badalona

I don't know why I've been so slow posting the photos of my holidays in Catalunya. But here I am, is still summer, so is not too late.

This are some photos of Badalona. My grandmother María Luisa was born in this little city by the Mediterranean Sea, that I recently dicovered was founded by the Romans in the 3rd century BC, with the name of Baetulo, and it's the home of the famous Anís del Mono distillery. I saw the sign when I was on the train, it caught me off guard, therefore, no photo, but you can have a look at this Juan Gris painting instead. I've also just discovered that there's a wikipedia in catalán, of course.


I didn't walk around Badalona much as it was an incredibly hot day and I was most interested in swimming in the sea. In the photos you can see a bit of the streets next to the train station, the passeig de la Rambla and the Platja dels Patins a Vela (:


*Film photos to come... soon?

Sitges

Half an hour and € 7,00 away from Barcelona is Sitges, an amazing cute little beach town famous for its neverending parties, its fantastic cinema festival (literally 'fantastic', have a look at this year's poster) and home town of Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, founder of course of the famous rum distillery (there is a Museum if you want to visit, Casa Bacardí, where apparently mojitos and piña coladas are part of the tour).

We head down to Sitges just for one day and although it was a really nice experience I wish I had planned to stay at least a couple of days. On our super trip we bought fruits on the town and headed to the beach where we relaxed and swam, then we had a nice, decent priced, paella at the Hotel Santa María and walked around town looking for the best ice cream.

If you are in Barcelona, please please please, go to Sitges you are seriously in for a treat.


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PS. My LC-A+ came along in this minitrip with me, when I develop the photos, I'll share them with you ;)