Tuesday, March 19, 2002 18:50 Weather: Hot, and wall-to-wall blue skies Location: Room 12, Hotel Marrakesh, Chefchaouen, Morocco What a day! It’s very hard to believe that I had lunch in Seville yesterday. I’m in a whole other world here… I got up at 7:30 this morning, had a quick shower, and packed my bags […]
Monday, March 18, 2002 18:32 Location: Playa de los Lances (beach), Tarifa, Spain Weather: Warm and sunny, finally! Windy… Today was a total triumph. I finally feel as though I’m beginning to understand and appreciate Spain. There’s a certain rhythm: a quick breakfast around 8:30, busy morning, lunch from 12:30 to 2:00, slow afternoon of […]
19:45 Apparently getting up at 6:30 am on a Sunday in Seville puts you in a pretty exclusive club. When I set out at 7:30 to try and do some laundry, get some breakfast, and see some sights, everything was closed. I did see a few cars, but very few pedestrians, and almost no open […]
Sunday, March 17, 2002. 07:00. Location: Hostal Bienvenido, room 19, Seville. Weather: Cold, scattered cloud. I´m sitting in a solidly-constructed but unheated room on the rooftop of the Hostal Bienvenido, a low-budget guest house in the Barrio de Santa Cruz district of Seville. I realized as I was going to bed last night that I […]
2:30 pm. After a cold wet morning poking around the main sights of Evora, I´m lingering over lunch. This is partially because I´ve been somewhat taken advantage of by the owner of the nice restaurant where I chose to stop: he asked me what I wanted to drink, chose to interpret ¨fruit juice¨as ¨red wine¨, […]
Friday, March 15, 2002, 09:20 am Weather: high clouds, sprinkling rain Location: Evora town square coffee shop I have a bit of a sore throat this morning, as if I´m coming down with something, and I know exactly why. After doing some shopping and walking around downtown Lisbon yesterday I was ready to leave, so […]
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 08.00 am Weather: rain, sun, who knows? Wait 5 minutes… Location: coffee shop next to Pensão Prata I can´t believe how much I’ve lived and experienced in the last four days! Last Saturday seems an eternity ago. And it seemed that way last night when I walked up the hill to […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2002. 17.10 GMT Weather: rained all day on and off — now sunny Location: coffee show outside Baixa-Chiado station I got another early start today, making it down to the Praça do Comércio by 8:40, which gave me twenty minutes to kill before the tourist office with its precious net terminals was […]
You may note I´m having difficulty getting Blogger to show the correct post time… I´m working on it, but I´m not sure if it can be solved from here. Tuesday, 12 March 2002. 17.03 GMT Location: Commuter train from Sintra back to Lisbon Weather: Cloudy, but it stopped raining Wow, what a hike! The three […]
Tuesday, 12 March 2002. 09.10 GMT Location: Tourist office, Sintra Weather: Sunshine? Hah! More rain. I returned to the Pensão for a nap. All that walking is tiring! When I emerged, I planned to go out for a leisurely dinner before the concert. However, I was intercepted by the guest house keeper, Fernando. We conversed […]