http://www.geekdave.com/blog Thoughts, pictures, and updates from the road... Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:17:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just got back from a three week trip in India! Check out the pictures: [GetPicasaAlbums user="dave.on.the.other.side.of.the.world" col="2" random="n"] http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=36 Following more advice from my new Spanish friend Anna, I have been happily hopping along the north coast of Spain.  Two days ago, I arrived in a small town called Ondarroa, situated right on the coast with a beautiful harbor and sweeping beaches (starting to become a familiar sight up ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=35 I've spent the last three nights in a small city called San Sebastian, on the northern coast of Spain.  I came here on the advice of Helena, my short-term sister in Barcelona, who informed me that it would be a festival week.  What good advice that was.  This week is ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=33 So originally I was only going to stay 3 days here, but it has turned into over a week.  I found a really amazing person named Anna to be my couchsurfing host, and I've been spending lots of time with her and her friends this week.  As usual, we cooked ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=32 No matter how many trips one has taken, or how many travel books one has read, there are always lessons to be learned on the road.  I'd like to take a brief intermission from my usual narriative to share some lessons I've learned so far, and some stories to go ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=31 Married on July 31st, followed by the craziest wedding party ever.  After staying up til 5am to catch the train the night before, and sleeping on and off for a few hours on the way to Perpignan, it took me a whole lot of caffeine to keep me awake and ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=23 I ate snails!  They were pretty tasty, served in their shells with some kind of buttery pesto sauce.  Some of them put up a good fight as I tried to extricate them from their shells, even though I was armed with utensils that looked like medieval torture devices.  Yesterday I took ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=22 Hello friends... I am writing from the lobby of a youth hostel in the historic French town Besançon.  Just crossed the Switzerland-France border earlier today. I ended up spending four nights in the Swiss town Gryon, high up in the Alps.  The hostel there is wonderful, and many of the occupants were ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=21 Just wanted to share some pictures from a hike I took in the Swiss Alps the other day.  Picture a small trail snaking through gigantic snow-capped mountains, with sweeping panoramic views of valleys and towns below... small farms here and there with herds of cows grazing, their cowbells ringing loudly together like a ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=19 Greetings from Interlaken, a beautiful small town nestled between two enormous lakes and surrounded by mountains. I am couchsurfing with a local journalist named Bettina who met me at the train station yesterday. She went to work, and it's raining this morning, so I decided to post some ... http://www.geekdave.com/blog/?p=15