It is said that people from Bilbao are born wherever they want. I chose Valladolid. There mountains are flat and not higher than a good old birch tree. Alex Txikon couldn’t follow my steps and decided to go for more steper ways on the walls of the Basque Country mountains. He managed a few years …
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Immigrants?
It was the first time for all of us. We drove into the city center, found parking place and walked to the well known Scottish like name «fats» food company. We swallowed our happy meal and walked back to the car by a different street leaving the town before the French fries reached the stomach. …
Hospitality
Norway is several thousands kilometres far away from Tabasalu. My first job in Estonia was here. The brother in law of my wife colleague, not knowing who I was, allowed me to do some exercise in the mornings cleaning the snow and ice from a couple of kindergardens and he payed me for that. Tonight …
The shinning.
Isolated in a huge luxury hotel on the mountains during the white winter, the caretaker, a blocked writer, tries to overcome his lack of inspiration. He is not a blogger. Jack could be whatever but not that. He is the one who open the toilet door with an axe just to show his grimy smile. …
When the mountain doesn’t come…
Then I have to go to the mountain to have some sunbathing. One week later my slopes flatter devices, also known as crampons, were bringing me back to the same mountain. In this occasion the track was already set. The ascending time was much shorter. And the reward was the sunlight making softer the snow …
Hard work kills horses.
Andy Kirkpatrick, the best world climber from Hull, got this advice from a taxi driver after helping him carrying all the bags needed to go up the «Reticent Wall» route in «El Capitan». In a shorter way, even hard workers, as horses are, have a limit. Writing a blog is far different from climbing alone …
Full of light nights.
Not too much to read tonight. We had an earthquake last Sunday. It was 2 seconds of the whole house shaking. Nothing seriuos. Wind was more effective in Bodø. There was not tsunami. In any case and taking into account the power of the nature I have decided to take as many pictures as I …
The goat.
I will make it easy today. In the land where I was born, protected by many mountain ranges filled with «horny» Iberian Ibex goats, we take the example of this animal to reflect the fact that the roots of our behaviour are very well settled making it normal to continue with them. Therefore «the goat …
Sitting bull.
Probably this picture should have been included in the previous post. Is the 3km tunnel under one of those 2 mountains connected by the wires. Actually it is a very singular devise, an horizontal radio station. In order to cover long distances high masts or even towers are used. There is one in the west …
Ande yo caliente…
A new challenge for the non native Spanish speakers. Well, knowing my poor communication skills, even advanced users of «castellano» will have to read it several times to get the idea. Do you have time? Ok, so once you have done the job and found out what i am talking about, dont laugh. That’s it. …
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