A 3 day sailing weekend along the Costa Brava

Photo Gallery: Sailing Costa Brava (35 pictures)

Tags: Costa Brava, Sailing, Spain

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

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

Tags: Barcelona, Calçotada, Spain

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.

Tags: Barcelona, Spain, Spring

A quick 2.5h mountain bike tour with Christof around Tibidabo. Here’s the tracker log.

Tags: Barcelona, mountain bike, Spain, tibidabo

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.

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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

Hiking Montserrat [map] with a very fun group of people and catching a glimpse of the Black Virgin in the Monestir de Montserrat.

More photos are available here. Courtesy of  Tatiana Rybak.

Tags: Hiking, Montserrat, Spain

Another session of mushroom hunting in the Collsacabra mountains of Catalunya [map] with my friends Pascual from Argentina and Jordi and his family. We also visited Anigami, an outdoor- and adventure company owned by some of their friends and had quite some fun there. All in all another great weekend in España, or better Catalunya – not to upset anyone

All 38 photos are in my Picasa Gallery.

Tags: Catalunya, Collsacabra, Mushroom, Spain