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Paseos pirenaicos.

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#snow #coveretday #pirinees #cold #grass #magnificient #review #mountain #autumn #green #natural #colors #sky #road #morning #colors #perfect #respiranatura #naturalovers https://www.instagram.com/p/CJUILq6hKBE/?igshid=lzkjr6ds6m49

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el Pont Nou sobre el Ter 

Camprodon - Pirineus - Catalunya 2017

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Val d’Aran’s architecture by Jaume CP BCN (x x x) on Flickr

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Winter wonderland ❄️⛷🎿 . . #panticosa #estaciondeesqui #formigal #formigalpanticosa #esqui #pistadeesqui #ski #skiing #winter #pirineos #pirineoaragones #nieve #snow #winterwonderland #invierno #montaña #paisaje #landscape #lifestyle #lifestyleblogger #mountains #pirinees (en Aramón Formigal-Panticosa)

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“Plau-me el bastó del caminant al puny, abraçar els horitzons d’una mirada, fer-me entrar a dins la immensitat del cel i el gran adormiment de les muntanyes.” Joan Maragall. — #cerdanya #puigcerda #muntanyes #pireneos #pirineus #pirinees #easter #setmanasanta #catalunya #neu #holidays #relax (en Puigcerdá, Cataluna, Spain)

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Last friday, before coming back home from the #Pirinees in #PeñaOroel for the forth ir fith time but this time following the hardest path and then un #LoarresCastle with my loyal travel companions #stormpilot #Mountain #pirineos #CastilloDeLoarre #Castle #Loarre #Medieval #StarWars #SW #PoeDameron #Finn #MyEdit #Landscape #Spain #aragon

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Ordesa. La Pineta. Pirineo Aragonés. Huesca. Spain. 17-marzo.2017.

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Repeating Andorra and Amsterdam

So in December, thanks to the holidays, shifts and vacation days I could not take before, I didn't work at all.

Since December 1st until January 7th I had vacations. So that was very nice.

I spent most of it in Barcelona with a close friend that was visiting, and it was pretty awesome. However, I did a couple of trips worth mentioning.

First, during the first week, we all went to Andorra. Not sure if I mentioned before, but Andorra is this little country on the Pirinees, quite isolated, where people go to ski in winter mostly. Other seasons it has amazing trails and mountains, but in winter it's like a huge ski resort. So we went to spend some time there.

The place was nice and we had fun, but the previous time I had visited was in summer and it was soo much better, because of the lack of people. Andorra is pretty tiny and in the middle of huge mountains, so the cities, the streets, the roads, etc, are rather small. The main road has one lane in plenty of sections. The towns are narrow and steep. So, the moment it's a bit overcrowded, massive lines are formed everywhere and it's really hard to move, to park, to do anything really...

The place we were staying in was really good, and what we visited was nice, but as a driver the feeling I got was that for most of the trip I was stuck in the car or having to keep controlling the gears and waiting for cars to move, in steep narrow roads. It was a bit stressful.

We did manage to ski, and this time I tried skis. The snowboard last time was a bit frustrating, I didn't manage to control it at all, so this time I tried the skis, with no class or anything just to see how it was. After the experience I can say that it's harder to brake, which means it's more dangerous, but at the same time it was easier to grasp some basics and I managed to go down with them as I wanted, so that was really good. I have to say though that the boots were horrible and hurt a lot, but oh well. Actually after this trip I went back to another mountain and finally managed to control better the snowboard, and I think using skis also helped to understand better how to move around snow in general.

The tracks were pretty amazing, and the mountains looked really pretty, but also it was not that cold nor there was a lot of snow, which is normal for the time of the year.

Apart from skiing we visited the towns, went to caldea (the local spa, very nice ) and enjoyed our time there, it's just that we spent a lot of it on the car.

Special mention to the trip back, which was nightmarish thanks to stupid Spanish border control just allowing one lane to go out, which means a big big traffic jam before reaching that point, for kilometers and kilometers.

So, after Andorra, which was more like a family trip, I went to Amsterdam (which was not).

I've been to Amsterdam 2 times before this one. The first one was with my high school and it was a...mind-opening trip, let's say. It was really awesome and we had tons of fun. Also, the high school banned trips to Amsterdam afterwards, a clear sign of a good trip :p . After this one, I went back there with some Erasmus people while I was in Sweden, and at that time it felt weird and not as fun, but it was ok.

Anyway Amsterdam always felt really beautiful, really friendly and with a special magic atmosphere of freedom somehow, so when deciding what to visit someone proposed this city and I loved the idea.

It was my third time and I was not disappointed. The streets and channels, the little houses that cannot be made very tall, the Christmas lights, the atmosphere, it was beautiful. We just walked around without visiting anything special, and just enjoying  the city, and it was pretty awesome. We were staying in a very centric and cosy place, and we ate and drank and just relaxed, without hurries. It was really cold though, but its normal for these dates too.

One of the nights we went out with a local friend and it was one of the best nights I've had in a long time. We first spend time at his place, then a little walk on the red light district (he lives there so we just walked around his house), and then went to a weird club that had an underground area, dark and foggy and with threatening electronic music...the visuals were like something out of Silent Hill, and the music was electronic but dark and heavy and thick. It was spectacular and we had a lot of fun. We left late, and just then it started snowing, adding to this eerie feeling that was great

It was so good that we'd definitely like to go back (but when it's warmer please).

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Here in the Pirinees [OC] [4160x3120] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/3c3BOa8

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Kevin's Camino Journey

Aug 28: First entry into tumbler..... And first stab at capturing blog info for the next 2mos Pilgrim walk into north of Spain. Sept 14 will fly to Barcelona, make my way to St. Jean Pied de Port in Pirinees via train and bus. My walk will start on Sept 18th: 1yr from my beloved wife's sudden passing. She would have no part of this walk in her physical life, but I'm pretty sure she's ok joining me in spirit on this one. I have been doing a fair amount of planning for this. Everything I need on this 475mi. /35 day walk, I have to carry, so I'm trying to limit as much as possible. I hope to carry no more than 15 to 18 lbs of "stuff". I've been walking, trying to build up my fitness. Walking 15 mi/day could be day after day could be a challenge. We'll see. There are options to ease the effort, but hope not to pursue them.

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Carretera y Manta ( Camino day 0 ) -March 16th 2017

Dear Friends , First of all, l apologise for the long absence. Despite what some of you have told me , I have not accomodate. On the contrary, my life has become so crazy, Tenerife- Kent- Paris- London -Kent- Madrid- Pyrinees, now , that I had little time or inclination to writte. But now, the final day has come . After having made a promise more than two years ago, before my ankle replacement , and after walking for the last 6 1/2 months ( based on my I-phone ) around 1,300 kms, I start tomorrow the real Camino. I do it with a heavy heart , for multiple causes, but full of excitement and dread. I intended to start relatively slow ( around 15 kms/day ) ,but the reality will be different, as I want to make it to Pamplona on Saturday night, to rest there on Sunday, what means two journeys before of 21/22 kms each. This is ( combined ) a marathon length ( 44 kms ). I know, I know... is not the same. Walking , rather than running, and over two days , but hey, still 44kms!. My training was more around 7-8kms/day with a few peak days of 15/17 ( where I felt totally wasted ) so will see if I can make it , or if the whole thing turns into an humiliating fiasco. The great thing is that for the first 4 days I have company as my super fit friend Carlos is coming to the rescue ( secretely I plan to do the last 5 kms piggy-bag style ! 😜 . It will be good for his soul, as a penance exercise ).

Dashing Carlitos Then I will be alone for another 4 days , back to Madrid to collect Nico , and then 4 days hiking with him. So first round ( intended ) will be around 12 days , covering about 270 kms, with some few days of rest in between. However, there is no plan, real one, other than trying to survive day by day. To do that I have the most extended list of probably useless stuff , trying ( failing ) at the same time to carry the minimum possible weight. The list includes things like energy sachets , all types of imaginable compeeds for the feet, tablets of potasium/magnesium,cream for muscle recovery, ankle and knee braces, lintern, binoculars, swiss knife, pain killers , antiobiotics ( unfortunately I start with an ear infection ), vaseline, and on and on.

Survival kit : Everything you can think of.

Consequence : Mammouth, gigantic back pack, 25 kgs or more . OMG !! One word on the vaseline . Contrary to normal belief is not intended to have unnatural sexual practices with Carlos, or with other animals ( goat, sheeps) available, but to smear over feet and crotch areas ( avoiding genital ones ) to prevent friction and blisters. This is just one of the useful advices I have received , to add to the one of using a massage ball in the feets after the journey, or the other of having cold showers in the legs , etc, etc . Also there is the thrill of the unknown. We start in the Pirinees , in Roncesvalles, famous for the " Chanson de Roland " a legend ( partly real ) were a party of Carlomagno knights , headed by Roland, favorite of the magnum, were ambushed and killed by barbaric local vasques on the Middle ages.

First stop

The good news : life is cheap. I can eat , but Carlos is worldwide famous for his dino appetite. We had two mammouth dinners and felt totally bloated for 35€

Real deep Spain : local enjoying a break 😂 Talking about crime in Spain, it has become famous the Camino one , where an american-thai lady of fortysomething has been found dead in the forest without hands . The criminal cut them off and buried them in another place to avoid identification . This is black rural Spain, and anything can happen, so hiking alone as a girl has some risks. The criminal was a local peasant , obvioulsy a cooko, that in fact change an arrow of direction to send people to an ambush close to her farm. All very creepy. I hope my brutal looks ( a fellow Buchinger patient told me he would kot like to come across me on a dark alley at night ) works in my favor , at least for once .

Carlitos and I , after getting our pilgrim credentials and with the famous compostelian pilgrim shell.

And with our first Camino friend : Bongjae ( or something like that ) a Korean with blonde dye hair. Welcome to Camino !. Well, that is enough for today. As of now , if I managed, and am not too wasted I will try to post everyday to tell you about my adventures and progress, or lack of . Be well Ivan Ps- Carlitos is gently dozing by my side. He is a doll !.Maybe I use the vaseline after all 😜

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