10 days of kiteboarding, hiking, volleyball, BBQ and other things at the Aquarius Camping in Sant Pere Pescador. More photos from my friend Claudia are available here.

What was planned as a 5-hour hike ended up as 8 hours, due to the fact that we got totally lost. However, we discovered really cool places (canyons and rivers) and thanks to Android’s MyTracks we found a way back without hiking all the way back (which would have taken even longer).

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Snowshoeing in the Parc Natural de Cadí-Moixeró.

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Nature, sunshine, smiling people, street music … that’s all you need for a happy life

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A weekend in Roses (Costa Brava) and Cap de Creus.

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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.

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