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Rautalampi’s ghastly fog

It’s been decades since I’m bothering my friends with the preach that, in a clever society, some rudiments of thermodynamics should be taught in mandatory elementary school, for reasons not solely environmental but also economical. Unfortunately, very few of us … Continue reading

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The outermost Álava.

. En el último capítulo de la serie Vasconia en dos ruedas castigué al lector con una soporífera ración de historia, y hoy quiero regalarlo con un episodio más pictórico y digerible: vamos a viajar en moto por una de … Continue reading

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Andorra: a large shopping mall.

When you come to think of it, you can’t but get surprised by the amount of wrong certitudes we take for granted, unmodified, along decades and, often, along our whole life. Ones more relevant than others, of course; many of … Continue reading

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The Pyrenean route.

The Pyrenean Route (actually, and literally translated, Pyrenean Axis) is the state road which, under different numbers and across different regions, runs roughly parallel South of the Pyrenees mountain range; and it’s a great motorcycle route that, with a good … Continue reading

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A monastic life?

I leave behind Peñafiel, its castle and famous wineries; ahead is the plain, losing its harshness as it slowly gets higher, towards more beautiful and faraway regions. The blue sky is partly cloudy with cumulus humilis, the wind caresses the … Continue reading

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Episode 4 (1st part): Road #1

  When I woke up in the morning of our fourth day’s journey, the world seemed rather more hospitable a place than in the eve: there was a bright sun to cheer us up and news were good: Benito was … Continue reading

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Episode 3: The beautiful Nothing

  On asking the employee in the Reykjavik tourist office what there is between Mývatn and Egilsstadir, i.e. the upper leftt quarter of the island, he had quickly replied: Nothing; and then added: but it’s a beautiful Nothing. And it was a … Continue reading

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65 º nordur. Episode 2: Akureyri

Located on the shoreline at the bottom of Eyjafördur in the north of Iceland, Akureyri is a lovely, small and rather quiet town; although with 17,000 inhabitants is the second largest in the country, after Reikjavik, ten times bigger. After the … Continue reading

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