When I’m not traveling, and I get to spend the weekend in the city, Sundays are usually dedicated to good coffee and gentle recharging. There are quite a few good coffee shops in in Valencia, some of them toasting their own coffee and, in the last couple of years I extensively tested them. One of … Read more The Dog And The Sombrero

I had my first computer when I was 18. It was called CIP, and it was a communist clone of the famous ZX Spectrum. Same processor, almost the same board. You would load the operating system from a cassette tape, which made such a strange , acute noise. Any other programs (or games, mostly) had … Read more Do What You’re Good At

There are many types of breakthroughs. Some of them are like a sudden jolt of energy, revealing in a split of a second an incredibly clear insight, while others are like rivers, slowly flowing and accumulating, unseen and unnoticed, until they reach, in a silent and oh, so simple movement, the sea of understanding – … Read more Your Story Follows Your State

Depending on where you spent the night, mornings will start a bit differently. In this post I will talk about the “normal” Camino experience, the one in which you sleep in albergues, which are common living facilities. At around 6AM, or even earlier, you will start hearing the movements of the other pilgrims in the … Read more A Typical Day On Camino

Warning, this is going to be a long post. Inception And Reasons Around mid July, a couple of events changed my intentions for August – which was supposed to be a slow, holiday and chill month. On one side, my plans to spend time with family in Valencia had to be cancelled because of the … Read more Camino de Santiago – The Experience

I’ve been wanting to do Camino de Santiago (or some form of it) for a few years now. If you don’t know what Camino de Santiago is, it’s a road (or a network of roads) used by pilgrims to get to Santiago de Compostella, where they will receive, after they completed the pilgrimage a “compostella”, … Read more When Camino de Levante Doesn’t Want You – But Camino de Sanabres Does

We all have a dark side, wether we like it, or not. Most of the time, we don’t like it. But just because we don’t like it, it doesn’t mean it’s not there. It doesn’t mean it’s not part of us. If you really think about it, that’s how the light actually works: while it … Read more Detached Shadows