Este año tuve la suerte de poder participar en el XI Torneo Iberoamericano, en Costa Rica. Durante el evento fui enviando “reports” a la lista española de jugadores de Go, espago@yahoogroups.com… he aquí el recopilatorio. DISCLAIMER: léase con mucho humor e ironía… Report day -1 Hola, como algunos sabéis, voy a participar en el torneo… Read More »
Which one is better? a) Use all (or most) of your free days in a row. You totally disconnect from work issues, but when you come back your’ll have a flood in your mail inbox. b) Use them little by little, so do small breaks during the year. You don’t totally forget about work things,… Read More »
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 »
While I was flying to Corcovado, in a small airplane, I had the opportunity of looking at the instruments in the cabin. I knew the functionality of some of these flight instruments because I “studied” them when I was a child, from the heavy MS Flight Simulator 4.0 manual. It’s interesting to discover that when… Read More »
Some years ago I went to Syria, and when I came back, I felt that Europe is a too squared place. Too perfectly designed. Last Thursday I arrived to Madrid, from my 2 week trip to Costa Rica. In that country people have enough money to live, but not to choice among lots of things.… Read More »
I spent my last two days near Arenal volcano (about 2 km from it). I saw rocks falling down all the time, day and night (when it’s even more impressive, due to the red light colour). I saw more animals, specially colorful birds. Pura vida! Today I’ll come back to Spain. I took a bus… Read More »
Today I took a bus to Monteverde (actually Santa Elena town). The weather is quite different here in the mountains than it was in the jungle+beach in Corcovado (Drake bay). Warm but peaceful. I did canopy this evening, which is moving among the trees using a rope and a pulley. It was interesting, but more… Read More »
I took a airplane from San José to Palmar, then a car to Sierpe, and then a boat to Drake Bay (near Corcovado natural park) … and then I arrived to the Paradise. I mean, the real paradise. We had some heavy rain while in the boat, and the captain said “welcome to the rainforest”.… Read More »
I came back to San José, after a quite long trip by bus. My stay in the jungle was… intense. I took the opportunity to meet with some Go players in San José. They were so kind to invite me to have dinner, while playing some games. I was a bit stronger than them, so… Read More »
Today we took a boat to move along the rivers and channels of Tortuguero national park. We saw a lot of different birds, monkeys, some alligators (really close to the boat… I mean 1 meter) and some undefined animals (I can hardly remember all those names). Of course, I took pictures non-stop. All the tones… Read More »