Thursday, August 27, 2009
A floating museum in Bayona
After yesterday´s detour to Kos, let´s return to Galicia and the town I liked best which is Bayona near Portugal. The floating museum this post is referring to, is a replica of the caravella ´Pinta´, one of the three Columbus set out with to discover America (not that he thought he was going...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Escape to another country
No rest for the true gypsies. Luckily for me, my friends are much the same, or rather, don´t put up too much resistance if vogue gets itchy feet and feels like company for rhe next short trip. Yesterday, we went on a daytrip to the Greek island of Kos. It´s only an hour away by speed catamaran,...
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Book published, yeah!
No pictures today, but tomorrow I´ll resume. I´m just so excited and need to share with my blogit friends, because my first novel has finally seen the light of day. If you like, go to amazon or barnes & noble, type in: sweet revenge by inka piegsa-quischotte and..there it is!!! Tell me how it looks....
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Follow me, I´m the bagpiper..
and here he is. One of the typcal musical instruments in Galicia is the bagpipe and I was quite pleased when I happened upon this fellow in Santigo de Compostela. Legends, mysteries, superstitions and the like abound and here are the giants which are carried around in processions to ward off the...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
More pictures for you
I woke up and actually remembered where I was. Good start. So, first stop as always ´blogit´and posting some more pictures. I´m not going to give them to you in chronological order but I rather try to give you glimpses of the variety of sights, themes, stories, history and landscapes which make up...
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First pictures
I´ve made it home and I would never have thought that my little place in Turkey could feel so good. Five weeks living out of a suitcase and moving from place to place does take it´s toll, but on the other hand it was fun and has provided me with all the information and material I wanted for the...
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Greetings from Amsterdam
I'm finally on my way back to Turkey and have just arrived at the world's biggest and most confusing airport: Schipohl/Amsterdam waiting for my connecting flight to Istanbul. But, as you can see, I found the internet centre and thought I use the remaining time to say hallo. This airport is really...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Is here anything vogue won't do?
The answer is: very few things. This is the story about the rock concert I went to yesterday and let me tell you what an event that was. It was Spanish bands and I knew only one of the artists, Antonio Carmona, a gitano who knows his guitar. Anyway, the event took place on the beach with the...
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Bye, bye nature, hello bright lights
Back in La Coruña and on my way to Barcelona. The bookshop ower yesterday had left for a few days but the very helpful lady kept my card and promised me he would be in touch. Knowledgebale herself, she was able to point me to one place I wanted to see: the breach in the wall through which Francis...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Getting warm at last
Today I went on another daytrip further into the countryside in the direction of Lugo. I had discovered that close to a place called Vilalba are thermal springs and natural pools and --lo and behold---I found them and had a good hot relaxing bath. The pool is in the open and smells a bit foul...
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