San Fermin 2011 Festival
One of the sweet spots to shoot the bull race is from the corner of Estafeta Street with Mercaderes. Unfortunately it is not enough to have the correct photog accreditation and the bib, but you must also be an early riser and hit the streets with the first rays of sun, specifically at around 5am [...]
Break in Prague
It is not unusual to meet an average Joe who was born in the US, lived in his own town for the whole life and never wanted or needed to travel beyond the state limit. Even though the trend is dying out, the auto sufficiency, relative geographical isolation and, in the end, the distance continues [...]
Bucharest, The Little Paris of the East, isn’t that ironic?
When France decided to send Roma Gypsies back to Romania, alleging that it was a “decent and humane” policy to remove people from deplorable conditions back to their homeland, it was also well aware that the Romanian citizens are members of the European Union. And despite of not being part of the Schengen Treaty, restricting [...]
Spanish “Shearing of the Beasts” Festival
Every year thousands of tourists arrive to the Galician village of Sabucedo (Spain) to participate in the 400-year-old festival ‘Rapa das bestas’, the Shearing of the Beasts. Several hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the nearby mountains and put into the village’s pen to be marked and their mane and tails trimmed. This [...]
Peñalara ascent to 2428m
When the alarm at half past six went off the plans for that day are short of being cancelled by the inherent human desire to continue sleeping on a fine Saturday morning. Since Thursday as the fatigue generated by clients and demanding bosses started to build up, I remembered how little snow I have seen this [...]
Travel to Navarre’s Bardenas Reales Park
While most travelers were heading to Madrid, Sevilla, Malaga or other capitals where the passion of the Spanish Holy Week is lived with great devotion, only few headed farther away to more remote sites of the Spanish geography, evading from beaches and ever present paella. The traffic on my way to Navarre was very fluid [...]
