Tag: travel
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Three(ish) Weeks In Spain
With exceptions for those of us who had work to do at the start or end, my family and I just spent three weeks hopping around the East of Spain, featuring surfing, a theme park, exploring, dodging the heat, and - of course - a total solar eclipse.
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I guess it's the laptop and the pile of towels that cause the confusion, but people keep asking me questions (usually in Spanish) about where to get towels from and whether they can use the pool at this hotel.
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Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and a blue ponytail, sits at a poolside table in a hotel roof terrace, using his laptop alongside a pile of towels.
And I have to keep explaining that nope, I don't work here, I'm just watching my kids play while I catch up on my RSS reader!
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Found GC9Q6G6 PORTA DE BARCELONA
This checkin to GC9Q6G6 PORTA DE BARCELONA reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick find exactly where it should be while driving from Tarragona to Barcelona. My family and I were in the area for the eclipse and then for a trip to PortAventura and are heading to Barcelona …
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Well that was pretty spectacular. 🤩
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Over the silhouette of hills, a total solar eclipse is just coming to an end, with a 'diamond ring' effect resulting from the sun's reappearance visible.
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L'Aqüeducte Romà de les Ferreres
Of all the architecture with which the devil is (per legend) credited with the construction, L'Aqüeducte Romà de les Ferreres might be the most impressive.
Nice work, Satan.
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Casa Ventola
I'm spending the week on the East coast of Spain, hoping to see the imminent solar eclipse. And in the meantime, I've been finding local geocaches (including my thousandth!) and exploring the local sights with my family.
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Apparently, zero of the imagineers building this Disneyland Paris cafe conceived that "Chuck Wagon" sounds like what a cowboy would call a wheeled vomit trough. 😂
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Faux Old-West building painted with lettering identifying it as the Chuck Wagon Cafe.
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Contactless Transport in London vs Paris
Paris is rolling-out contactless tap-in payments for its transport network. Sounds like London's... except that Paris's includes a "convenience tax" that seems to disproportionately target short-term visitors. What might this say about each city's relationship with tourism?
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The secret API I used to tell LeShuttle about different outbound and return passengers
Channel Tunnel operator LeShuttle's website wouldn't provide a working UI to specify that I'd have different passengers in my car for the outbound and return journeys. So, obviously, I reverse-engineered their API and pushed the information to their database directly.
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Food divided by Distance
In the kind of dream that only happens when I'm ill, I invented an app that would track both your location and your food consumption, and report to social media your journey progress as a proportion of your remaining meal.
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F-Day plus 12
It's been only twelve days since our house flooded (it feels like a lot longer!), and progress is slow on getting damage assessments and medium-term accommodation planning sorted.
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Amusing announcement from the captain of my plane out of Tenerife South this afternoon. In place of the usual recommendation to keep your seatbelt fastened while seated in case of turbulence, he advised that there was a "risk of potholes".
I'm sure the analogy makes sense to the Brits aboard, but I hope it translated well for the Spanish speakers on this plane!
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Found GC45BDD Mirador La Paz
My partner Ruth and I are staying at the Meliá hotel down in the city, from which amazingly I was able to get a WiFi connection despite the considerable distance!
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Found GC9PMF7 Crossing the street
QEF while on the way down from Taoro Park with Ruth. SL, TFTC!
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Did not find GC1PYFN Parque Taoro
Ruth and I made several attempts today without success: a muggle was sat nearby in such a way that access to the GZ was obstructed. We took a walk to the nearby Anglican church - whose architecture, if you ignore the volcanic rock, is uncannily like that of Anglican churches in the UK - but then we returned the muggle had very much set up camp and was going nowhere. We attempted to find a way to the cache from the opposite side without luck, and eventually had to give up. 😔