The weather is killing me.
My face hurts and it is as irritated, as the time I splashed a 60cm jelifish with it.
Not even when hiking tru Phoenix in July I got my skin so irritated. And I can not hide it, so I go around the airports creeping people out.
My flight to Santander was actually booked for tomorrow, however due to new information (knowledge of my cousins being there today) I came to the airport to try take it today [no, I did not make it over the phone, and no I did not tried over the net, I Paid 20 euros for a taxi to the Airport, and attempted the switch directly here]. When at the Iberia counter, the clerk was suspicions, as my ticket is a *negotiated one*, but when pulling it on the screen it did not showed up any restrictions [I guess having too many influences can be suspicious].
After more than half an hour (it seemed like the guy was typing a letter using only the letters "S,D,K,Z,N,>,ALT,Tab, Enter, Space, / ", I got to check my luggage and got a boarding pass.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Taking off from Dusseldorf.
Another traveling day.
Today, at the Dusseldorf airport, I tried to pass the airplane gate without a boarding pass. The gatekeeper lady only speaks German (and I do not). It was not until a waiting passenger on the line asked *should't you have checked your luggage?* that I realized how silly I was. No wonder I did not had a boarding pass.
Later on...
As I was passing the security scanners, I took off from me everything I usually take off including my belt. Yet the pants I am wearing today have a nice metal buton, so it beeped big time on me.
As I was manually scanned, the guy asked *raise one foot*, then *raise the other foot*, *now raise both*, I screamed *WHAT!?* they totally broke my pattern. The guy was cool.
My sister picked us up at the Barcelona's Airport. On the way out, I thought [knowing her] we are going to take a cab. But now, she said, we are going to ride a Bus. And so we did (with all our luggages). We got off at the España Plaza stop. It was a beautiful stop, as we arrived right at sunset, and an orange cast of light showered the monuments.
With all the luggage, and because my parents still had to catch a train to Villafranca, we rushed to our first stop, my sisters apartment (ant that was like a two miles hike carring our luggajes). I thought, no problem, I am still going to be here until Monday, I can come again un Sunday to take some shots (and I do not mean drinks, altought, who knows).
Today, at the Dusseldorf airport, I tried to pass the airplane gate without a boarding pass. The gatekeeper lady only speaks German (and I do not). It was not until a waiting passenger on the line asked *should't you have checked your luggage?* that I realized how silly I was. No wonder I did not had a boarding pass.
Later on...
As I was passing the security scanners, I took off from me everything I usually take off including my belt. Yet the pants I am wearing today have a nice metal buton, so it beeped big time on me.
As I was manually scanned, the guy asked *raise one foot*, then *raise the other foot*, *now raise both*, I screamed *WHAT!?* they totally broke my pattern. The guy was cool.
My sister picked us up at the Barcelona's Airport. On the way out, I thought [knowing her] we are going to take a cab. But now, she said, we are going to ride a Bus. And so we did (with all our luggages). We got off at the España Plaza stop. It was a beautiful stop, as we arrived right at sunset, and an orange cast of light showered the monuments.
With all the luggage, and because my parents still had to catch a train to Villafranca, we rushed to our first stop, my sisters apartment (ant that was like a two miles hike carring our luggajes). I thought, no problem, I am still going to be here until Monday, I can come again un Sunday to take some shots (and I do not mean drinks, altought, who knows).
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Last day on Koln
Today I was wondering, what would it be to move and live here in Germany. There are so many *features* that I like about this place. One of them is all the walking. The public transportation system works so well, that it completely takes the guessing and the anxiety of waiting for a train to show up. There are light signs on every stop, indicating in how many minutes the train will show up. And the measurement is quite accurate.
The population, in the four days I have been here, I have not seen a single fat German. And I have been eating what they eat and it definitely has more calories and fat than the American food.
But the walking must be making wonders for them. I who am not a German, have been waking at least 10 km each time I get out of the hotel.
And the girls, I am still looking, trying to find out the ugly ones.
On the other hand, I would have to leave behind probably all my hobbies. Going out to the beach in the middle of the week, and maybe at midnight might not be possible without a car.
Additionally going to do rappel on public land, or waterfalls might not be possible either.
Yet, I do not miss those activities, they have been easily replaced (I guess I am not a man of attachments).
I had the alarm clock setup to wake me up at 6am today.
Last night I had planned to go to Netherlands, it is only 200km away, and on the ICE train that is less than two hours. I could have gone round trip in a single day.
Yet, when I woke up, it was raining hard, I heard the pieces of ice hitting the windows of the room. And I thought, Netherlands is further north, it is going to be worst over there.
So I bailed out from the plan.
Later, during the day, I was kind of butchering myself, thinking I should have gone.anyways.
Because of that, Netherlands that was not originally on my list of countries I want to visit, is now on. I already did the numbers, a round trip from Panama in August would be around $1600.00. If I could save $200.00 every month, for two years I can make it happen. It would easily cover the cost of the trip and tourism expenses. What an exciting idea. Maybe it was better that I could not go today. Now I have another burning desire inside (on the down side, it is making it a little bit hard for me to sleep tonight).
The population, in the four days I have been here, I have not seen a single fat German. And I have been eating what they eat and it definitely has more calories and fat than the American food.
But the walking must be making wonders for them. I who am not a German, have been waking at least 10 km each time I get out of the hotel.
And the girls, I am still looking, trying to find out the ugly ones.
On the other hand, I would have to leave behind probably all my hobbies. Going out to the beach in the middle of the week, and maybe at midnight might not be possible without a car.
Additionally going to do rappel on public land, or waterfalls might not be possible either.
Yet, I do not miss those activities, they have been easily replaced (I guess I am not a man of attachments).
I had the alarm clock setup to wake me up at 6am today.
Last night I had planned to go to Netherlands, it is only 200km away, and on the ICE train that is less than two hours. I could have gone round trip in a single day.
Yet, when I woke up, it was raining hard, I heard the pieces of ice hitting the windows of the room. And I thought, Netherlands is further north, it is going to be worst over there.
So I bailed out from the plan.
Later, during the day, I was kind of butchering myself, thinking I should have gone.anyways.
Because of that, Netherlands that was not originally on my list of countries I want to visit, is now on. I already did the numbers, a round trip from Panama in August would be around $1600.00. If I could save $200.00 every month, for two years I can make it happen. It would easily cover the cost of the trip and tourism expenses. What an exciting idea. Maybe it was better that I could not go today. Now I have another burning desire inside (on the down side, it is making it a little bit hard for me to sleep tonight).
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