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A Swedish couple in search of the isle of Capri drove to Carpi, an industrial town in northern Italy, because they misspelt the name in their car’s GPS.

> Swedes miss Capri after GPS gaffe – BBC

geleceğe not: Gülme komşuna gelir başına.

La llegada del AVE a Tarragona es una buena noticia, y por muchos motivos:…Leer el articulo

¿A ver cuando llegan hasta la frontera?

Swedish versions of concepts like real estate speculation is probably non existent so these 24000 islands seem to be very well protected. Though i am underlining the known fact that there are lots of Swedish who prefer to live in Turkish, Greek or Spanish coast. If we can count on what Ingemo told us, until mid-90s, it was forbidden to foreigners to land some of these islands due to cold war issues. All these islands of Baltic sea were thought to be the ideal spots through the “enemy” might have been infiltrating. How stupid…  The northern part of the Ornö island was totally deserted during our stay as it was out-of-season period (end of August). It was extremely calm and very beautiful with the sea, mossed rocks, huge trees, lakes and the locals of the island like squirrels, foxes and the company. The Söderviken zone is not completely open to Baltic sea and closer to Swedish mainland so the sensation was rather as if we were surrounded by a big lake where thousands of Swedes were sailing peacefully. Probably it is one of the zones of the world where boat-per-capita is the highest. It is just so nice to see people this much in contact with the sea. When we took the boat trip to visit Huvudskär island  which is out of Stockholm Archipelago, we noticed that beyond the sheltered waters of the Archipelago there was the Baltic, windy and shaky.

Greta mentioned several times that Stockholm didn’t change a lot since the days she used to visit the town with her grandma. (nearly 15-20 years ago) Even the bald taxi driver of Stockholm was there as the old ice cream cartoon character was inclined the way it was. Although some of the local Swedish people were complaining that the days of welfare already came to an end, we appreciated that in old city center of Stockholm some entreprising people were serving masaje in-situ sin compromisos, as seen below. We could not figure out if this is the new swedish social democracy: massage for everyone but not free?

• Link to Huvudskär 360 » Ogo
• Sailing Stockholm’s Archipelago

RJCP » Volar es un placer

Yo viajé el primer día de incorporación de nuevas medidas. Había un caos total en los aeropuertos de Barcelona a las 6 de la mañana y como no aun mas en Fiumicino de Roma mas tarde donde hice una escala. Lo de Roma era un festival en el que solo faltaba aplicar el sistema naturista propuesto por Rjcp.

update: ( You can visit the personal web page of the creator of this panoramic view of Istanbul: www.muratgermen.com )

AQUI, PODEIS VER MAS FOTOS DE EUSKADI/PAIS VASCO.

update: Natalia me ha avisado que San Juan de Gaztelugatxe está en Bermeo. Lo remarco para que no haya malentendidos. Si vais a Bilbao y no lo encontráis, ya no es mi responsabilidad.

San Juan de Gaztelugatxe

San Juan de Gaztelugatxe (Basque: Gaztelugatxeko Doniene) is a tiny island on the coast of Biscay belonging to the municipality of Bermeo, in Basque Country (Spain). It is connected to the mainland by a man made bridge. On top of the island stands a hermitage, dedicated to San Juan, that dates from the 10th century, although certain discoveries indicate that the date might be the 9th century. Along with another small neighboring island, Aketze, they form a protected Biotope, that extends from the town of Bakio until cape Machichaco, on the Bay of Biscay. (Wikipedia: San Juan de Gaztelugatxe)

I would like to welcome all the visitors reaching this page to find images of intriguing San Juan de Gaztelugatxe. It is one of the interesting spots in the Basque country. Basque region itself is one of the most must-to-visit corners of Spain thanks to its particular culture, gastronomy and nature.

Tags: panoramic, Spain, País Vasco, Donostia, San Sebastian, San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Bilbao, sand art, Euskadi , beach, la concha, Bermeo

Where is Huvudskär ? > See the map

Click here if you want to experience the QTVR version which is much more entertaining… Be patient while file is loading.

Technorati Tags: Sweden, Huvudskär, island, panoramic, 360, qtvr, ogomogo, faro, lighthouse, fener, phare, Baltic Sea

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Here we go!

Languedoc is a great wine region with some known denominations like Corbieres and Minervois. Young grape leaves have already sprouted all over and time and palates will tell if 2006 turns out to a memorable vintage. The second photo is taken in Chateau de Violet in Peyriac Minervois. It is one of the many wine domains established in the zone. Madame Emilie made great friendship with Greta.

If they go on with prohibition of street soccer how can french ever expect to have another soccer genious like Zinedine Zidane? Photo taken in a charming small village called Caunes-Minervois. By the way nice flower pots with grape reliefs.

It is worth a visit to the Carcassonne town center where they held a market every saturday morning. Also you might find it interesting to take a look at the Cité (castle) and the old bridge from the riverside. While the Cité of Carcassonne is full of restaurants and souvenir shops, the town center is pretty popular and calm.

Carcassonne Castle (Cité):

Labastide-en-Val is a very nice small village that you might reach if you get lost driving through the Corbieres region.

Technorati Tags: France, Carcassonne, vineyard, Minervois, south France, Labastide en Val, castle

and more Prague photos inside the post >

You might also find a few photos and a short movie of street musicians taken by Greta during our trip to Prague on her blog: pachichiplet.blogsome.com – Ceská republika

So here we go, a selection of photos that I took during our trip to Prague in April 2006.

>Franz Kafka and Alphonse Mucha’s fame yields them dominant on the billboards among lots of other cultural activities that are proposed in Prague.

>Busstop in Lycolaje, outskirts of Prague.
>Lycolaje, Prague.

>Sculptures of Olbram Zoubek were presented near the old city center. This street exhibition could be seen until June 04 2006.

>Prague is (if not the first) one of the most important cities for puppet art lovers. You could find lots of different theatres and shops specialized in this meticulous form of expression.
>Also a Czech animation feature film, FimFaRum 2 was about to make the movie theaters.

>Beer lovers feel themselves lucky in Prague.

>Babiccina placka guy and lady and someone holding a delicios babiccina placka roll.

>Streets around Mustek district and a view from the National Museum.

>Motorcycle courier in the old city center of Prague
>City is full of old “antique” cars at the service of tourists but I like this Peugeot 304 more than the other brilliant and old cars.
>Legendary Skoda parked in a street next to the Jewish district of Prague.

>Prague is also a city of hills and old pavements.
>The painted wall is called John Lennon wall. In the old days this wall and the writings and drawings on it were the symbol of the ideas and desires of Czech society. Now it is only tourist spot.

>Staromestska metro station in Prague. The public transport functions really well in our opinion.
>Horse drawn carriages are also serving the tourists. The carriage riders are cool and they talk on mobile phone while driving.
>Prague also is a city of trams.

>One of the sculptures on the famous and crowded Charles Bridge and the view of the castle.
>Riverside of Prague

>The old city center, cathedral, astronomical clock and of course tourists like us.
>Some street views from the city center.

>and some other curiosities from Prague:

> and my broken umbrella that could not stand the strong wind and raindrops… take your umbrella with you !!!

Tags: prague, photos, czech republic, travel