For hiking info, kindly scroll down Warning: this is going to be a long stream of unconsciousness and is not going to make any sense, least of all to me. Apologies for that. Someone once wrote that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you and trusting them not to. Google search attributes the … More 162 – Clouds in My Coffee
Beginning of January and I am now officially 5 months late with my blog content. That is assuming that I will be able to finish this post before Epiphany. I mean the religious holiday, of course, I am sadly not expecting any ground-breaking revelatory event in my life anytime soon. That goes for any other … More 159 – Venite, Adoremus Dominum
This is a flashback post to my holidays in Verdiago last July. For people unfamiliar with this blog, Verdiago is a tiny village I discovered in 2020, when Spain was just coming out of the first wave of Covid-19 and one of the harshest confinement in Europe. We would not be allowed to come back … More 158 – Improvised Hiking in León
Let’s see if I can produce a nice, clean, to-the-point post for once. Probably not, but I’ll give it my best shot. I should have published this article way earlier, when it could have been useful to people looking for outdoor options, while we could not leave the Autonomous Community of Madrid. The state of … More 155 – 4M & Confinement Hikes
Sorry folks, I am a little behind with the blog, as I still need to work my way out of 2020. Pretty much same as all of us, I’m afraid, as nothing suggests things may get significantly closer to normal any time soon. Speaking of which, my mysterious fellow melomaniac neighbour doesn’t seem too convinced … More 152 – Patones de Arriba
In most countries, “a bridge” refers to any type of construction that connects two points over an obstacle. In Spanish, Italian and possibly other mediterranean languages it also means a situation where a bank holiday falls close to the weekend, so you “bridge” the day in between, when you’d normally work. This concept is unknown … More 151 – El Puente
As this weird year is coming to its end, I find myself in a confined region with over 20 days of holidays (that I need to take before the end of January) and nowhere to go. So I have been taking the odd day off, depending on the weather forecast. I treat my holidays the … More 149 – Social(ly) Distancing
Flashback to the last weekend of September, before Madrid was “confined”. Which in reality never happened, unless you count the two weeks of confinement of the working class neighbourhoods (a wicked masterplan conjured by Madrid’s local establishment), and intermittent peripheral confinement imposed by the central Government, when the rest of the city could not leave … More 148 – Hiking La Pedriza
The last chapter of my stay in León will recount some additional activities one can enjoy in this beautiful region apart from those covered in my previous posts. There will be no incendiary content this time. Probably. Unless some sudden change of heart occurs later in the writing process. Not that there is a shortage … More 146 – Who Cares?
As I finally managed to bring myself to tackle my tiny writer’s block, I am sitting at my bureau in my perfectly designed little apartment and contemplating the only thing about it don’t like: the view. I love my place. I probably pay too much for what it is, I could most likely find something … More 143 – Dove corrono, dolcissime, le mie malinconie…
Kacenka on the road 