A weird day today. It seemed all right waking up in the sunlight, but it was extremely cold. Read on the news that a cold front has arrived in Spain and the first snow has already fallen in the north. In Madrid it has been raining heavily causing flooded roads and lots of traffic jams. [...]
Archive for: October, 2008
Door to door sales
A phenomenon I was not really aware of before coming to Valencia is the door to door sales of just about everything you can think of, imagine and more. I did hear that I needed to be aware of scams were people come to your door and say that they are from some sort of [...]
WordPress 2.7 in the making
Barely have I adapted most of my sites and those of my clients to version 2.5 or later (up to 2.6.3 with the latest security fix) and just having finished a 40-page tutorial for a website CMS (Content Management System) built on the latest version of WordPress, the developers are already at an advanced stage [...]
my Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-10-26
Wow, the sun! Haven’t seen her all week… # Step 1 of the “papeleo” red tape to official residence is arranged, got myself a handy lawyer in the process # of the more than 36,000 boats participating, i’m now within the top 1/3 on 10,188 with 4,188nm to go to Cape Town! # just finished [...]
the week that was
Finally today the sun is shining again and the sky is gorgeous blue after more than a week of pitiful weather. The most important reason why I haven’t been writing my blog: grey and wet outside makes me dull and without energy. Another reason to write today is because I have an hour extra. Wintertime, [...]
my Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-10-19
Good to know that Valencia today also had sheit weather… No more credits, so no more twitter… # Pity that the way back seems to take much longer than the way in. Note to self: Next year take the bus. # All 8 tix are consumed on yummie food and wine, now onto barhopping! 1 [...]
One thing
One thing that sucks about Valencia: “They” say it’s a partytown, but “they” don’t say that their music actually sucks big fucking time and – more important – that their – supposedly awesome – parties start after 4am. I mean, come on, why should you not be able to have a great time before bloody [...]
Utiel Gastronomica
Just came back from my daytrip to Utiel. Fantastic day!!! Quite a bit different than what I expected, we actually went there because of the Utiel Gastronomica. More about that later. We left in the morning by train and against expectations it took 2 hours to get there; a “boemeltreintje” as we call it in [...]
Day Trip to Utiel
This afternoon I booked a day trip for tomorrow organized by school to a village called Utiel. We will go there by train and as far as I understand the journey takes about an hour; according to Google Maps it’s around 80km. Utiel is to the west of Valencia and it is an old historical [...]