First contact with alpinism - El barranco del Postero


Beginning the climbing


The team


The land of snow and ice


Walking the slope up


In other world

First contact with alpinism - Sierra Nevada


The team


Lanjaron Valley


Mount Elorrieta

Back to the mountains - Puente de la Constitución


Snowshoeing through the valley


Mount Elorrieta


Parque nacional de Sierra Nevada... and my shadow

Fiestas de San Andrés - Dólar


Antiguamente las corridas se hacian en la plaza del pueblo
La primera corrida de toros en Dólar se celebró en 1764



Encierro de los toros



Recorrido del Encierro


La corrida


Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει

Human nature: Revolutions

Meanwhile the moderate part of the citizens perished between the two,
either for not joining in the quarrel,
or because envy would not suffer them to escape.

On the Corcyraean Revolution. The History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides

Prague - Chasing winter


Prague


Prague - Bohnice


Entropa - Europe according David Cerny


Prague Law School


Jára Cimrman - Greatest Czech and founder of externalism

Errant in the enchanted forest

Wandering through an enchanted forest
I came across the unexpected and the long time forgotten
Fulfilled I returned home

SPC meeting - Alvaro's wedding


Aren't they cute?


Old friends meeting

Pais Vasco - Summer 2009


Euskal Herria


Tapas - Estilo vasco

Dolar - Puerto de la Ragua Hike


Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar


Dolar

Summer concerts


Yann Tiersen


Gilberto Gil


Bruce Springsteen

Cape Town - Crossing Table Mountain


Table Mountain


Starting poing: Kisternbosch botanical garden.
Skeleton gorge is visible from here



Scrambling up the river bed


The view from the top of Skeleton gorge


Table Mountain feinbos - King of proteas


More feinbos


Platteklip gorge

Cape Town - Cabo da Boa Esperança and Bartolomeu Dias Beach


Cabo da Boa Esperança and Dias Beach


Dias Beach from the top of the hill


The view from the beach

Cape Town - The Great White Shark


This time diving in a cage


A white shark close up


Getting ready to attack

IGARSS 2009 - Cape Town


The University of Cape Town

Cape Town - Diving with sharks

The thrill: Diving with a couple of sand tiger sharks without any protection
The trick: The dive would be in an aquarium so it was a controlled environment
The fun fact: The sharks were fed only once a week, precisely the day I was diving...


Mirando los toros desde la barrera...


A sand tiger shark close up


Diving with turtles... an amazing experience

The outcome: Nothing gory happened. The sharks were curious about my presence, specially at the beginning. Probably they were expecting me to feed them. I had to sink slowly and use the rocks to protect my back (and my divemaster had to use a wooden stick to keep them away)

When I tried to get out, the younger one (a two meters male) got really, really interested in me and circled me for a while. My divemaster was a bit worried (to say the least) but with his help and trying not to freak out it finally got bored and left.

Disclaimer: Sand tigers are not that agressive but then, diving in a aquarium it's much more conflict prone than in outdoors.... It was a thrilling experience anyway ;-)

Festival Internacional de Musica y Danza


The upper room - Corella Ballet


Cancionero del Sacromonte - Marina Heredia at the Sacromonte Abbey


Swan Lake - The Royal Ballet