After two months in our rental house in Lomo Quiebre, September is here and Labor Day weekend. That's a typical travel weekend for us. Sarah is traveling back to San Francisco via Madrid and I am going back to Stockholm via Oslo. It's been a nice summer here, but a little too hot.
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Yes, it's an Indian pizza. Spiced with masala and topped with paneer cheese. Gotta love it!
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Puerto de Mogan, 2023-08-11, 2.15 pm. Cloudy but nevertheless 42 degrees (108F) at sea level (!). One word for it: horrible!
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A beer and a Sangria machine. 15 years ago I would've bought one of these.
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Today the coastal communities of Spain are celebrating Virgen del Carmen. Hundreds of boats with loud music and dancing circle the coast.
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It's crazy hot here at the moment. 39 degrees C (102 degrees F). Climbing the steps up to our house make you look like you've been in a sauna for an hour.
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We're back in our cute house in Spain. Perry is taking one of his afternoon naps. If I start making coffee from freshly ground beans you bet he'll wake up in an instant.
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Diablo IV is out, one of the most anticipated games of all time. To celebrate the occasion, a giant mural has been created on a wall in central Stockholm. Awesome.
Happy Thanksgiving folks! Jake has been playing around with his drone and sent us this beautiful pic of our beloved SF. I love the evening colors on the high rises.
Happy Labor Day weekend, folks. Summer is pretty much over for me and Sarah. Sarah went to Montreal for her annual 4-week work there on Tuesday and I am back in Sweden.
Imagine all the blocks not disappearing when whacking in Minecraft. This is Puerto Rico harbor.
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A scrawny lime tree grows right outside our window. Sarah says the small ones are the most potent. They are perfect for food seasoning and drinks.
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Hot weather today (95°F/35°C). But I'm as happy as can be as I just got better from a nasty summer bug that made me sleep like 15 hours or more.
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Richard, my father in law, lives in Lafayette, CA. Today it's Father's Day in the US. Unfortunately Sarah and I are in Europe. But that doesn't keep us from celebrating our good old Rick. This is a pic of me outside the Veteran Memorial Center downtown Lafayette, taken a few years ago.
Went on a road trip today. The nature looks very much like southern Nevada or Arizona.
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Last year we stayed at Cordial Santa Agueda when we were in Arguineguin. It was barely finished. But now it seems to be up and running at full speed. Expensive but spanking new. You even got your own pool :-)
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Sarah is not very pleased with the food. She thinks everything tastes the same. I don't really care that much as I only eat the veggie options. But it's clean and professionally presented.
We're staying at Bull Dorado Beach hotel on the far south coast. It's the third time actually. The very first time was 10 years ago in 2012. Feels like an eternity.
It is possible to get good pizza in Sweden. Especially if you choose your toppings yourself. This is a buffalo mozzarella pizza with pesto, sun dried tomato and halloumi. It works. I promise.
Gotta love the tweet Videocardz posted the other day on Nvidias "roadmap", after the very peculiar announcement of their rtx 2050.
We have a lot to be grateful of, but before the world's "done" we have a ton of things to do. Start with yourself. You dig it?
On my flight back to Sweden I got some grilled tofu. It was dry and tasted like... nothing. But what can you expect. Sarah left for Washington DC already yesterday.
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An accurate artistic representation of the dog in our alley. He's all black in real life, but with a personality just as colorful as in this mural :-)
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Ridiculously hot today (40C/104F). I'm at one of the restaurants on the boardwalk and sweat is pouring down my neck. Sarah gets headache when it's too hot, so she's staying at home with an unlimited supply of iced tea.
Just struck us the other day that the locals who live down by the harbor have their garden on the roof. Cool!
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We've got a nice view from up here, but it's a pain in the a** to climb the steps.
A restaurant down at the yacht club has these strange creatures guarding their entrance. A perfect example of how nature can provide the most awesome things to add that little "extra" to it. We're definitely going to copy this for our own house in Sausalito.
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We're ditching the hotels and renting a little house for a change. Complete with the local atmosphere: steep stairs, dogs barking, cats meowing, kids playing in the alleys and laundry flapping from every line like when you were a kid. Gotta love it!
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Continuing the nasty body parts references: This jar was found in our kitchen...
