26th May 2008

Photos

I hadn’t updated my Flickr account in a few months. So I just got around to it. If you been around me with a camera any time in the last few months, there may be picks of you here.

Here’s the complete set. Also, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Amsterdam.


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10th Feb 2008

España

One of the best business trips ever: conference in Barcelona, España (preceded by a couple of days in Madrid). Both beautiful cities, but Barcelona in particular captured my heart. I’ve been to both cities before, but it’s been quite a while.

A highlight was certainly the calçot festival in a neighborhood barrio, organized in part by Jazz, the boyfriend of a friend of ours who moved a year ago to Barcelona. A Catalan tradition, the festivals are done in the winter months around the region, wherein heaps of the calçot, a kind of leek, are roasted over an open fire then dipped in a salvitxada or romesco sauce, which is one of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten (the sauce in particular). Pictures of the festival here and Barcelona trip in general here.

If it makes you feel any better, now I’m sitting in a drab hotel room in Düsseldorf preparing to do several months worth of back travel expenses.

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