Category Archives: English language

English language posts

New house

Having a new job it’s not enough change! Last monday I finished my moving, with the help of 3 strong friends (Alga, Enric and Jordi), to my new house. A 2-room penthouse with a nice terrace, in front of Montjuic mountain. A really calm place, with a lot of vegetation, where you can’t smell city… Read More »

Alicante Tournament aftermatch

Last weekend I took part in Alicante Go Tournament, as organizer and player. People from different cities of Spain (and London) came to play. At the beginning I suffered a lot of stress, due to some later time problems with the venue, but finally we had a smooth tournament, with a familiar mood among 36… Read More »

The world without us

Eventually I read the book “The World Without Us“. In the last few months I’ve read quite a lot of essays, like Freakonomics, Philosopher at the End of the Universe, Wikinomics… but I really wanted to assault this book. Last month I found a copy in Liverpool airport, after looking for it almost 1 hour… Read More »

Posting from the beach

In Castelldefels, a coast town on the South of Barcelona, the city council decided to install free wi-fi in the beach. I’m testing it right now 😉 Are anybody risky enough to bring a laptop to a sand beach? However it seems useful if you have a PDA without mobile parts or holes, avoiding the… Read More »

My hammock

It’s summer already, and that means it’s hot, really hot. I read somewhere that when the air temperature is above 27ºC, your head can’t evacuate enough heat, and you have various related problems (can’t sleep, headaches, etc). For me, this is my second 2008 summer. I spent the first one in Costa Rica, in March.… Read More »

Welsh Go Open

Last weekend I went to North Wales to visit my friend (and English former teacher) Vaughan, and we took part in the Welsh Go Open. Luckily we had sunny weather during the sightseeing days, and quite bad weather during the tournament ones. I noticed the quite big difference between the temperature in Wales (around 15ºC)… Read More »