A weekend in Roses (Costa Brava) and Cap de Creus.
- Gallery: Cap de Creus (43 pictures)
- Google Earth: Cap de Creus
Tags: Cap de Creus, Catalunya, Roses, Spain
6
Mar
Park Güell
Nature, sunshine, smiling people, street music … that’s all you need for a happy life 
Gallery: Park Güell (12 pictures)
Google Earth: Park Güell
Tags: Barcelona, Park Güell
21
Feb
Barcelona City Tour
Have been playing around with My Tracks for Google Android this weekend. It’s an application that tracks your location on a map (e.g. during a bike tour or a day of skiing down the slopes or whatever else you can think of) and monitors real time statistics like time, distance, speed and elevation. I didn’t log the whole thing, because I was already on low battery when I left the house, but this should give you a pretty good idea of how it works. Here are the two links to view the route: [ Google Maps | Google Earth ]. FYI, I had my Nexus One almost the whole time in my pocket. For that I’m pretty surprised with the resulting accuracy of my track.
My Tracks doesn’t support adding pictures, yet, but you can easily do that with Google’s My Maps Editor for Android. And other than playing around with new mobile technology all day long I was also able to enjoy another beautiful “winter” day in Barcelona (see pictures below).
A beautiful, sunny day today. Perfect for spending an afternoon reading in Parc del Turó del Putget.
6
Feb
Calçotada
Calçotada at Can Cortes. For those, who don’t know what Calçots are, check out this Wikipedia article.
Photos are a courtesy of Marc Charach
What was supposed to be a business meeting started totally innocent at 11am in a cafe in the Barri Gotic, continued with beers at the beach at 1pm, delicious sea food at 3pm in a nice restaurant at the waterfront and some long drinks in the late afternoon with a gorgeous view down on Barcelona and the Mediterranean sea. Returned back to the office at 7pm. Drunk. Not much work done. But I had definitely a great time and good talks. The best moments in life are those that happen spontaneously. Thanks guys for providing such an exceptional work environment.
A quick 2.5h mountain bike tour with Christof around Tibidabo. Here’s the tracker log.
Tags: Barcelona, mountain bike, Spain, tibidabo
Sunshine, great people and lot of snow. I’m very positively surprised by Andorra. Wouldn’t have thought that there is such good skiing here in the Pyrenees.
Tags: Andorra, skiing, Snowboarding, Soldeu
Whoever was wondering what I did the last months in Barcelona besides kiteboarding, playing beach volleyball and jumping around in the mountains, here is the answer. After 2.5 months of hard work, long office hours and sometimes even weekends behind two big computer screens we are finally ready to release the first version of bliquo for Google Android today.
The app is available for free on the Android Market and there is no charge for using it or making reservations. Actually you will even get discounts if you book via bliquo. For iPhone users there’s also version available in the App Store. For now the application is only out in the Spanish market, but there might be more countries coming in early 2010 as well as new exciting features. Stay tuned!
Download it to your Android or iPhone, test it and let me know what you think
English
bliquo is your search engine for urban leisure: restaurants, cafes, bars, nightclubs… and thousands of offers and discounts.
Find a place, make a reservation and save money in just a few clicks. It is the fastest and easiest way to decide what to do and where to go.
- FIND the best places in town to go eating, having some drinks, hanging out…
- BOOK A TABLE at your favorite restaurant and take advantage of huge discounts and offers. More than 3.000 restaurants just in Spain.
- BENEFIT from OFFERS in the form of digital coupons and flyers: 2 for 1 bars, special menus, big discounts…Forget about paper coupons and the hassle of keeping them in your wallet. From now on simply collect and use offer coupons directly with bliquo.
- DISCOVER the closest Japanese where to have dinner, the opening hours of the bar with the best beers in the area, the pictures of the coolest party places… and let us guide you there.
- FILTER according to your preferences: pizza houses, vegetarians, tapas, karaoke, pubs with live music, gay and lesbian discotheques…
- RATE the places you have been to, leave your opinion about them and check others’ reviews.
- REMEMBER easily all those places you don’t want to forget bookmarking them for a quick access.
- SEARCH for that place you heard about by just typing its name.
Tags: android, Barcelona, bars, bliquo, cafes, dinner, discount, drink, eat, iphone, nightclubs, party, restaurants, Spain, urban leisure, wine
Hiking & biking weekend in Horta de Sant Joan (Terra Alta) [map] in the South West of Catalonia at the border to Aragón. Biking down an old railroad track of the Spanish civil war and two hikes in a gorgeous landscape. One at dusk with a beautiful sunset, the other one during the day with a crowd of hungry vultures circling above our heads. Great wines, a lot of Vermouth and plenty of delicious local food.
All 45 photos are in my Picasa Gallery (courtesy of Elena Panizza)
Tags: Catalunya, Horta de Sant Joan, Spain, Terra Alta