so i haven´t bene doing much. i wake up, walk a bit, look for things to do.

mainly i spend the day trying not to move unless it´s worthwhile, because otherwise i sweat a bit. i´m glad i´m not a big swaeter, because i think it would be horrible here.

the most productive things that i have done are book some flights.

on the 8th i am flying to seville to meet harry ben and amy to spend some time on the beach at cadiz. so life as usual, except stronger sun, so need to get some stronger cream.

i return here on the 16th, only to fly to england on the 17th. i´m flying to manchester. dad wont collect me until the evening of the 17th, so i have to find something to do with myself for a day.
then we are going to go walking in teh lake district, so some cool weather which i can´t wait for!

then i´m back here the 21st.

harriet has an appointment with the vet on the 25th. and then maybe i will make a move. unless i have to make another vet appointment. i want to get harriet her passpiort as soon as possible.

i had a serious look into buying a car,
so to register a car in spain and get licence plates will cost over 3000euros!
cars in spain are more expensive than say germany.
cars are nicely cheaper in germany and switzerland.
if i really feel i need a car when i get back to switzerland, i will get one there, as most other countries will be difficult to get my own insurance in.

cars wise i was looking at audi a4 estate diesel 4wd, as this looks the most sensible option. i can afford a nice one, but do i need it.

needless to say i will forget about that for now, and hope that the rover does it´s job.

more flickr updates to see:

here

fin.

a company have used one of my photos:

on their website travel guide, yeh! check it yo:

Schmap

so today i sunbathed, was fun, am very tired now. busy day tomorrow.

so i have been a little busy since i last updated. we haven’t had a good wifi signal here for a while.

i have sun bathed on a nudist beach. i much prefer being naked on the beach, even if it is with a friends family.

i went for a walk to a castle. and on the way home rescued a homeless kitten

she is beautiful and cute, and friendly, and always wants feeding!
the vet says she is in beautiful shape. she had worms and bacteria, but they have been cleaned up. she is in for her first vaccination soon. it will be a while before she is a ok for a passport, in the spring she should be ok to travel to the UK.
but she will join me in the mountains this winter.
it’s a little peculiar being vegetarian and buying meaty stuff!

we finally sold granny and grandad’s house which is great that it is out of the way.

marta and i went to andorra. do not go to andorra it is horrible. the mountains around there are nice. but andorra is a tiny cramped country, steep mountains with it’s valleys filled with horrid shopping centres selling overpriced crap to thousands of smokey tourists.

i have finally managed to get up to date uploading my photos of my travels and life to flickr. it has taken me 8-9 months to get back to this state, but i’m sure i will fall back when i get moving again! it helps to upload pictures that are 1024683 rather than 3888×2592, much quicker!

so have a look at a few:

so we’re off to the beach now, woo!!!

today has involved many explosions, some pleasant,a nd some not.

at lunch time i hurt myself a lot! i made soup and the bowl i poured it into exploded, couldn’t handle the tastey mushroomy godness soup! or the heat.my heeart is racing, argh! got cuts on my feet and burned thumbs and shins. eeeeeeeeep owch!

so as a result i didn’t feel much like going out. there isn’t much to do on sunday, just lazing on the beach.

so i’ve started watching batman. i’ve been beaten up by marta’s rabbit. and i let it out of teh cage twice, evil evil girl! i’ve uploaded some more photos:

damn alignment!!!!!

and lastly i watched the fireworks. so ow the Mataro party is almost over for the year.

the origins of sata claus (quoted from wikipedia):

“The origins of Joulupukki

One interesting theory about the origins of Joulupukki and his flying reindeer, comes from the aboriginal Sami people of Lapland. In the forests there is a common poisonous mushroom, Amanita muscaria that is red with white dots. The shamans of Sami used to feed this mushroom to the reindeer, whereby the intestinal tract of the reindeer would filter out the poison, but leave the intoxicating substances. The urine of the reindeer would then be collected, and used as a hallucinogenic by the shamans. The shamans would often have out-of-the-body experiences and fly in the sky, returning through the chimney hole of their tent or cottage to their bodies. This shamanistic tradition would nicely explain the flying reindeer, the use of chimneys, and even the red-white colouring of Joulupukki.”

interesting.

so today was hot hot hot, well it felt like it. yesterday i got reading my book,a nd spent a long time reading it, i must have read over 200 pages of it. i couldn’t put it down, and i didn’t go to sleep until after 2am because of it.

i will not start another book until i have found a job. i probably wont read if i have a job, due to lack of time.

so today i woke up just before lunch, and wandered to the beach to sleep some more.

marta’s mum is great she cooks food and leaves it here for me to eat.

so i’m off out with marta’s mum and mum’s boyfriend to teh town party, and maybe out later, but i don’t plan on being out too late, i’m taking no money. and i wish to go to barcelona to continue my job hunt, earlier in the day, to avoid having to walk or move in the heat.

photo i took in sweden of an old volvo, now hotrod with flames paint job:

so i’m sun burned.

this morning when i walked past the mirror i notice how white my legs are compared to the rest of my body, well my thighs and arse are white as snow. i even took photos, for my 365 days.

so yeh my legs are tingly, serves me right for thinking my legs were so white that they’d reflect the sun!!!! i also have photos i just took, to show the after. these will all be online at a later date for all to laugh at!

no luck with a job yet.

excitment adventure:

i like to explore, i walk when possible because i like walking and exploring. i don’t fear getting lost, i don’t fear getting attacked, so it is rare than i feel the need to move a little quicker.

today i felt the need to move a little faster.

i walked to vilassa de mar to catch the train, 6km. took a short cut by a supermarket hoping to get to the beach. there is a stretch of 2km here where there is no beach, just rocks, and people don’t usually walk there. but i could at least see a road beyond this field. since there were cars and people at the other end i assumed that it was a well used short cut.

however when i got to the other end of the field i found it was all men, and they weren’t going anywhere. i could see that the road was 10m away from me by now, but up a steep slope and past a fence, but when i realised that all of these men were walking around in the trees and in this tunnel, all of whom were part naked or fully naked, i realised it wasn’t where i wanted to be, and rushed up this slope and to the road.

i finally got to a tunnel to the beginning of the next section of beach to see that the tunnel they were going down went to nothing but sea. no nudist beach!

so on my way back i went a slightly different route, but still cut by teh opposite side of the field, i felt it was safe as a cyclist was doing the same. but as i was a 1/4 through the field there was a tree with 2 men under, both naked and one masterbating.

i came across this once in london on walthamstow marsh while i was exploring.

eeep is all i can say! hehe.

this photo i took way back in may in berlin, i love it. so much so that it’s been my comuter background since:

so today turned out pretty unproductive.

last night i spoke with dad online, and then just as i was about to head to sleep nic came online, so for her it was afternoon and me it was morning already, so i got to sleep late, so woke up late, and spent today uploading to flickr, researching jobs, reading about history, and checking out gadgets.

i have a plan set for tomorrow and places to visit. i’m not so comfortable about cheating the train company, but not paying, whether it’s a fear of getting caught, or morals, it doesn’t matter, but hey it’s spain and everybody seems to do it. i find it hard to take in, how open people are about stealing in this country.

so a photo: (anne in our hotel room in the Qbic hotel, within the Amsterdam World Trade Centre)

i saw indiana jones in copenhagen, thought it was pretty crap, but am now downloading hulk and batman. funny how i find this acceptable, but i grew up with this, as i guess do spanish people with their lifestyle!

good night

this is mainly for dad, as i know you read this. but here are the photos from the day of granny’s funeral:

the montage:

and the photo of us looking smart:

so leaving verbier, nic and i went to Chateau Chillon(may 1st), and then Vevey for lunch, was nice to see other parts of swissland. i took her to the airport and she was off back to england.

i stayed at Lillianne’s which was a nice place over the lake in Lutry. she has some very nice wine, with her name on the bottle!

then i set off on the friday morning for Florence, got a flat tyre before i left Switzerland, with all shops closed for the holiday weekend!

so it was the first time for me to stay in a hostel. called Bigallo al Spedale it was out of town, a village called Bagno a Ripoli in the olive groves on a hill over looking the city located in a 13th century hospice/pilgrimage place. the guy wrking on the desk seemed surprised that i didn’t want to go out partying, but i had just driven about 800km.

i went to sit outside and read my book, and a girl offered me wine, turns out she worked there as the night shift and had her school friends down for the weekend from Milan and Rome, so we drank wine, she cooked pasta, and we had a great night chatting.

so saturday i spent in florence. which is very pretty, wonderful architecture, and lots of scooters, and art(at least a 4 hour queue for the museum di Uffizi(Office Museum) which needs to be booked 3-4 months in advance to avoid the queues). but it is woo touristy, there is little escape from the hoards. i spent the morning walking around viewing the sights. then had a lunch, some lovely food. by the time that was done it was too hot to be in the sun. unfortunately i was changing lenses on my camera and one slipped and the fitting got bent, which is sad. so i went to Palazzo Putti, due to reading that it was the place to go for modern art. their idea of modern art being at least 500 years old! but at the back is the Bobolino gardens which was a nice place to walk around and relax after walking the city to extensively. what was great is that it was half price as i am under 26!

i wondered some more, and waited until the sun was setting to photograph the bridge with the sunset behind it, and got some great photos, but that will have to wait to be shown until i have time.

i ended up walking back to the hostel, being picked up by a nice old couple staying there, 2km from the hostel. there was a bit of a party going on, and many more people staying there that night, so bbq, and wine outside was great, along with chatting to other travellers.

in the morning an american girl (23) was fretting so much about her camera not working, i tried to help her find a disposable, but being sunday nowhere is open, and we ended up rushing everywhere for an hour before she gave up and i could get on my way to paris.

yet again i was lucked with the busiest traffic due to the end of the holiday weekend, and found the auto strada barely moving at times, but i did see the Mediterranean which made me feel like i need to go and be by the sea. it was the longest distance i have ever driven 1200km, and took 12 hours, with a stop in Chamonix for pizza.

it’s got to that time of year that i have to stop to clean the bugs off the wind screen more often than i stop for fuel.

oh and it’s practically impossible to park in central Paris, there are no spaces!

so yesterday it snowed, and snowed, but now it’s sunny and gone.
we had our end of season work dinner, which was nice, it took the guys 45 minutes to agree on a wine for dinner! connoisseurs
so I’ve packed the car, and Nic and i will leave within an hour, so no more internet, Verbier, snow, and most of all home:

so good bye all this, and on to more adventures.

the plan is, today nic and i will visit Chateau Chillon and then i have to get her to teh airport by half eight. i’ll stay at Lilliane’s tonight,a nd tomorrow drive down to florence and spend two nights there.
then on Sunday/4th I will drive to Paris. I will have net access by then and can update later!

ciao ciao xx