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Fiesta San Medir (March 3)

11 June, 2008 (12:49) | Living in Europe | By: admin

We were awaken at 7:00 AM to the sound of fireworks. Mark went outside in his slippers and messy hair and looked up to see skyrockets exploding over Placa Taulet. He looked up the street and saw that it was full of horses, around 25 horses with riders. By this time I joined him. The […]

Calçots

10 June, 2008 (11:11) | Living in Europe | By: admin

After working so much with computers, 1’s and 0’s, emails, ftp, html, programmers in India, virtual everything without ever meeting or knowing anyone we work with online, a weekend out in the country feasting on calçots with thirty other guests turned out to be especially exhilarating because it was so tactile. Our new, best friend […]

Impressions from Fes

10 June, 2008 (06:57) | Living in Europe | By: admin

Walking down the tiny streets to the side of the hotel that lead down to the Medina we meet with our young friend Omar. Fes seems to be a land of polyglots. Little kids speak numerous languages, Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, German, English. Omar is one of the young multi-lingual boys who follows us around […]