<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865</id><updated>2012-02-16T17:49:43.894+01:00</updated><category term='Cuba'/><category term='Germany/Alemania'/><category term='Japan/Japon'/><category term='Kenya/ Kenia'/><category term='Suiza/Switzerland'/><category term='England / Inglaterra'/><category term='Canada'/><category term='Books and Films/Libros y Películas'/><category term='Cocina/Cuisine'/><category term='España/ Spain'/><category term='Ecuador'/><category term='Scotland/ Escocia'/><category term='Italy/Italia'/><category term='France/ Francia'/><category term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><category term='Russia/Rusia'/><category term='USA'/><category term='World/Mundo'/><category term='Festivals/ Festivales'/><title type='text'>PITUSITA'S WORLD</title><subtitle type='html'>EL MUNDO DE PITUSITA</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>71</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6667951300879458556</id><published>2012-01-12T18:16:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T18:19:02.178+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Suiza/Switzerland'/><title type='text'>Museumsnacht</title><content type='html'>&lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;Los viernes 13 han sido considerados por las culturas anglosajonas como dias de terror. Incluso existe una pelicula taquillera que lleva ese nombre. El origen de esto se remonta al siglo xiv, cuando caballeros templarios fueron capturados y llevados a la hoguera acusados de herejia, aunque se dice que la causa tenia mas que ver con asuntos economicos y secretos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;Mañana es Viernes 13, y en Basel, sera el dia de los museos. El transporte sera gratuito hasta las 2 de la mañana y por tan solo 20 francos se podran visitar todos los museos. Habra chocolate, cuentos y exposiciones. Los niños iran gratis, solamente hara falta que sobrevivan una noche asi, tan llena de emociones, sin dormirse antes de ver los dragones imaginados de museos como el Kunstmuseum, o el museum Tinguely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';  min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#333333;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;Friday the 13th is considered a wicked day. There is even a blockbuster horror with that title. The beginnings of such beliefs are from the xiv century, when some Templar knights were captured and burned on the stake, accused of heresy, although the real reasons had more to do with secrets and treasures than anything else.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;Tomorrow is Friday, 13th, and it will be a night of fun in Basel. Trams and buses will be free, and everyone will be able to visit all the museums for only 20 francs. (Children are free). There will be chocolates, stories, marshmallows, and plenty of emotions. IF only the children could survive such a spooky night, without falling asleep.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';  min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#333333;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.museumsnacht.ch/"&gt;http://www.museumsnacht.ch/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6667951300879458556?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6607085730430773693</id><published>2011-11-20T17:09:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T17:12:54.009+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Children!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/"&gt;http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A day like today, but of 1959, the UN adopted the Declaration of the rights of the Child!!!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6607085730430773693?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6607085730430773693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/11/children.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6607085730430773693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6607085730430773693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/11/children.html' title='Children!'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7501516495188861612</id><published>2011-10-30T17:21:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T17:29:30.147+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Festivals/ Festivales'/><title type='text'>Pumpkin Time</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;What better way to celebrate halloween than with Charlie Brown and his friends?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywTyGd_VF0&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywTyGd_VF0&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7501516495188861612?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7501516495188861612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/pumpkin-time.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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term='Festivals/ Festivales'/><title type='text'>Festival de Otoño / Autumn Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;El festival de otoño ha comenzado en Basilea. Los niños disfrutan de los parques de diversiones que han aparecido de pronto en diferentes plazas de la ciudad.  El olor a algodón de azúcar y a castañas calenticas,  se mezcla con el aire fresco típico de los días de finales de Octubre. Y Pitusita aprovecha para divertirse como una niña más entre la multitud que grita y ríe celebrando otra estación.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cO-Xv9-NMrM/Tq10bJ7kUJI/AAAAAAAAAiA/iWDxD5A7bnk/s1600/L1020312.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cO-Xv9-NMrM/Tq10bJ7kUJI/AAAAAAAAAiA/iWDxD5A7bnk/s320/L1020312.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669315515800375442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5H66_Rhi6q4/Tq10KBFQHdI/AAAAAAAAAh0/rCdFAdBX8PQ/s1600/L1020329.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5H66_Rhi6q4/Tq10KBFQHdI/AAAAAAAAAh0/rCdFAdBX8PQ/s320/L1020329.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669315221367299538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W2TJZXqOvQ0/Tq1z8_4pbnI/AAAAAAAAAho/IUQITtm0Rls/s1600/L1020324.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W2TJZXqOvQ0/Tq1z8_4pbnI/AAAAAAAAAho/IUQITtm0Rls/s320/L1020324.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669314997707697778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6-RGeuSPUOs/Tq1zuXzp5oI/AAAAAAAAAhc/oefxCd62i_w/s1600/L1020343.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 296px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6-RGeuSPUOs/Tq1zuXzp5oI/AAAAAAAAAhc/oefxCd62i_w/s320/L1020343.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669314746431170178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hHjtz3G8Oqc/Tq1zhV2476I/AAAAAAAAAhQ/IFuKLJ-I6mU/s1600/L1020332.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hHjtz3G8Oqc/Tq1zhV2476I/AAAAAAAAAhQ/IFuKLJ-I6mU/s320/L1020332.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669314522569568162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z1n4-SW6zu8/Tq1zUIngjzI/AAAAAAAAAhE/GQ9QEnnbuXo/s1600/L1020331.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z1n4-SW6zu8/Tq1zUIngjzI/AAAAAAAAAhE/GQ9QEnnbuXo/s320/L1020331.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669314295677095730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4_IGtRSaCc/Tq1zHK00AQI/AAAAAAAAAg4/Msmj_QALtYM/s1600/L1020335.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4_IGtRSaCc/Tq1zHK00AQI/AAAAAAAAAg4/Msmj_QALtYM/s1600/L1020335.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4_IGtRSaCc/Tq1zHK00AQI/AAAAAAAAAg4/Msmj_QALtYM/s320/L1020335.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669314072931467522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Basel autumn festival  has started, children everywhere enjoy the small amusement parks that have sprouted in different squares around the city. The smell of cotton candy and hot chestnuts invades the crispy air typical of these October days, and Pitusita becomes another child in the crowd, that screams and laughs welcoming another season.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oeXE8vH4eHM/Tq1y54C_FCI/AAAAAAAAAgs/Ac9YSAwNMAA/s1600/L1020344.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oeXE8vH4eHM/Tq1y54C_FCI/AAAAAAAAAgs/Ac9YSAwNMAA/s1600/L1020344.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P7My9-XXNys/Tq1ytFznqlI/AAAAAAAAAgg/jigSLkZVu7s/s1600/L1020349.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P7My9-XXNys/Tq1ytFznqlI/AAAAAAAAAgg/jigSLkZVu7s/s320/L1020349.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669313624907688530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AA2m0mBxOeY/Tq1yj_B5SdI/AAAAAAAAAgU/MD-TCabUmCA/s1600/L1020350.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AA2m0mBxOeY/Tq1yj_B5SdI/AAAAAAAAAgU/MD-TCabUmCA/s320/L1020350.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669313468469692882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-4445661385070733925?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/4445661385070733925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/festival-de-otono-autumn-festival.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4445661385070733925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4445661385070733925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/festival-de-otono-autumn-festival.html' title='Festival de Otoño / Autumn Festival'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cO-Xv9-NMrM/Tq10bJ7kUJI/AAAAAAAAAiA/iWDxD5A7bnk/s72-c/L1020312.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7241218508306164899</id><published>2011-10-24T10:30:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T11:01:30.021+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogs</title><content type='html'>Blogging for me should be interactive. I think a blog is supposed to take the readers to places away from their comfort zone, so that they can continue exploring, following different paths. &lt;div&gt;I have noticed that my favourite blogs have certain qualities that make them great: aesthetics, intelligent information that is useful, and authenticity - in other words, I do not feel that they just want to sell, sell, and sell, be it an idea or a product, but instead that the writers want to share a piece of their lives and invite us on a journey. I like it when there is a lot of heart in the writing, the photos, the links, and the videos. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I still have a lot to learn about blogging, in the meantime I get to enjoy what other great bloggers do with theirs, here are a couple of them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://babyccinokids.com/blog/"&gt;http://babyccinokids.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/"&gt;http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://munequitosrusos.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://munequitosrusos.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bloguear, en mi opinión, debe ser algo interactivo, llevando al lector a explorar mas allá, empujándolo a buscar su propio camino.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mis blogs favoritos tienen ciertas características que los marcan, por ejemplo, un buen sentido de la estética, información inteligente y útil, y autenticidad. Nunca siento que me quieran vender algo -aunque lo hagan al final- sino que a través del blog, los autores ofrecen su talento, conocimiento y le ponen corazón a lo escrito, a los enlaces, fotos y vídeos que comparten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yo aún tengo muchísimo que aprender, y más que nada, lo hago porque lo disfruto. Arriba les dejé algunos blogs que me gustan por su contenido y forma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7241218508306164899?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7241218508306164899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/blogs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7241218508306164899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7241218508306164899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/blogs.html' title='Blogs'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3940254647400841233</id><published>2011-10-24T10:13:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T10:26:00.288+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Autumn - El otoño</title><content type='html'>Autumn has arrived in Switzerland! It is coldish, damp, and the colours around are beautiful and elegant. Everything has this yellow and orange twist....take a look at the photos from the National Geographic Magazine, maybe you will get inspired to take that walk with your children on the park, stomping on fallen leaves and puddles.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/autumn-colors/?source=link_fb20111023env-fall"&gt;http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/autumn-colors/?source=link_fb20111023env-fall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;El otoño ha llegado a Suiza. Hace frío, hay humedad y los colores son bellos y elegantes. Todo tiene un aura terracotta. Como también lo tienen estas fotos de la revista National Geographic, que dan ganas de irse con los chicos a dar un paseo, recogiendo hojas caídas, y saltando sobre cualquier charco.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3940254647400841233?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3940254647400841233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/awutumn-el-otono.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3940254647400841233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3940254647400841233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/awutumn-el-otono.html' title='Autumn - El otoño'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3127148621665529544</id><published>2011-10-17T18:53:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T19:22:48.555+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Purple Dragon Club</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;When Pitusita was 2 and half years old we started looking for daycares, creches, kindergardens and the whole lot, to find a safe place where she could interact with other children. We were living in London and I started my search in earnest, but no matter where I looked I only found old, dark and depressing halls. That is until I v&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;isited the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purpledragonplay.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Purple Dragon Club&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; at Battersea, hidden behind Victorian mansions and the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.batterseapark.org/index.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Battersea Park&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;. This was simply nursery haven!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The British are famous for their love of clubs, but this one was a new concept, hip, modern and for children and their families. It had a Scandinavian flair with white walls, light wooden floors, very bright, and with tons of space. They offered cooking lessons, painting and drawing, a soft-play area, wii, ballet, Mandarin, tons of attention and super yummy food with a Michelin star cook. I could also bring my laptop, send emails, do work, read.......We signed on immediately! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;PD was the creation of its founder Sharai Meyers, a mother of two c&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;hildren , who at the time, were 3 years old and 8 months old respectively. She was always approachable and fun, taking inspiration from her own children and her own sense of aesthetics. She managed to  create something magical for all of us to enjoy.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;We are not living in London any longer, but we will always remember with fondness our time there, and in particular because of PD.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now I have read that the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purpledragonplay.com/chelsea.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;flagship club&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; has just opened in Chelsea and that the club at Battersea has been transformed into a &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purpledragonplay.com/battersea.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;kindergarden&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;, and for a split of a second I saw Pitusita in a rainy London, learning about koalas, Australia and kangaroos,  and laughing her head off while I was drinking a smoothy, reading a novel in a cozy corner, and feeling that I was not tota&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;lly alone in a foreign country, because there was always that big&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purpledragonplay.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Purple Dragon&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; to take us in like a cocoon to a caterpillar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDW1sMo4rZc/Tpxf5UdHDhI/AAAAAAAAAgI/kv7iWuI9rKk/s320/piano.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664507869673229842" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;(Image from PDC website)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cuando Pitusita tenía dos años y medio, empezamos a buscar guarderías para q&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ue pudiera interactuar con otros niños. Estábamos viviendo en Londres, y la realidad era que cada guardería, club infantil, o biblioteca, me parecía obscura, antigua, y deprimente , pero buscando y buscando di a parar con el &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purpledragonplay.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Purple Dragon Club&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;, o en español, el club del dragón morado. , que se encontraba en el barrio londinense de Battersea, escondido entre mansiones victorianas y detrás del &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.batterseapark.org/index.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;parque de Battersea&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;, a donde íbamos a menudo para dar de comer a los patos.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Los Británicos son famosos por sus clubs, pero este era un nuevo concepto, diseñado solo para niños y sus familias, moderno, con un estilo escandinavo, paredes blancas, pisos de madera pulida, muy claro y muchísimo espacio. En el club se ofrecían clases de todo tipo: De cocina , de pintura, de mandarín, de ballet..Masajes para niños y adultos, un area de juegos para los mas peques, toda la atención del mundo y una comida riquísima hecha por un cocinero con una estrella de Michelín. También podía traer mi laptop, leer, trabajar, enviar correos elctrónicos. De mas está decir que enseguida nos apuntamos!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;El club ha sido creado por Sharai Meyers, madre de dos niños, que en esa etapa tenían 3 años y 8 meses respectivamente. Ella ha logrado con su creatividad hacer algo mágico gracias a su sentido estético e inspirandose en sus propios hijos. Siempre me pareció muy cercana y divertida.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ya Pitusita y yo no vivimos en Londres, pero lo recordaremos por su encanto, gracias en parte a este club infantil. Recientemente he leído que han convertido el club de Battersea en un &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purpledragonplay.com/battersea.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;jardin infantil&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; y que han abierto un nuevo y mejor club en &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purpledragonplay.com/chelsea.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chelsea&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;. Leyendo estas noticias, volví a ver en mi mente a Pitusita riéndose y escuchando historias de koalas y canguros de la lejana Australia, sentada en algún lugar del club, mientras yo leía una novela en un rincón apacible, sintiéndome acompañada en un país extraño, porque eso tenía el club, siempre estaba allí para acogernos como un capullo a una oruga los siete días de la semana.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3127148621665529544?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3127148621665529544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/purple-dragon-club.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3127148621665529544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3127148621665529544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/purple-dragon-club.html' title='Purple Dragon Club'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDW1sMo4rZc/Tpxf5UdHDhI/AAAAAAAAAgI/kv7iWuI9rKk/s72-c/piano.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3620572960202733506</id><published>2011-10-16T15:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T15:56:29.940+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books and Films/Libros y Películas'/><title type='text'>Spy Kids 4</title><content type='html'>Who has not dreamed of becoming a spy or a superhero? We all did and still secretly do.&lt;div&gt;Take a look at the behind-the scene takes of Spy Kids 4 on the &lt;a href="http://cinefotografiando.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cinefotografiando&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://cinefotografiando.blogspot.com/2011/09/spy-kids-4-robert-rodriguez-filma-con.html"&gt;http://cinefotografiando.blogspot.com/2011/09/spy-kids-4-robert-rodriguez-filma-con.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;¿Quién no ha soñado alguna vez con ser un espía o un superheroe? Creo que todos lo hemos hecho, y que aún lo deseamos alguna vez, secretamente.  &lt;a href="http://cinefotografiando.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cinefotografiando&lt;/a&gt;, un blog de cine y fotografía en español, muestra el behind -the-scenes de Spy Kids 4. Todo un regalo para los amantes del peligro y de las pelis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3620572960202733506?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3620572960202733506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/spy-kids-4.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3620572960202733506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3620572960202733506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/spy-kids-4.html' title='Spy Kids 4'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1634166737883130009</id><published>2011-10-16T15:16:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T22:46:58.614+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books and Films/Libros y Películas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>More Intelligent Life- A magazine/ Una revista online</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 19px; font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica neue', sans-serif, 'Bitstream Vera Sans';font-size:13px;"&gt;For a while I have been reading the online version of &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Intelligent Life&lt;/em&gt;, which is "the lifestyle and culture magazine from &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;The Economist"&lt;/em&gt;. It offers 'features, profiles, interviews, blog posts and multimedia' and it is, as I like it, gratis!. Check out the latest photos from the English seaside, many of which include children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 19px; font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica neue', sans-serif, 'Bitstream Vera Sans';font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 19px; font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica neue', sans-serif, 'Bitstream Vera Sans';font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=" line-height: normal;  font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://moreintelligentlife.com/gallery/peoples-coastline-0"&gt;http://moreintelligentlife.com/gallery/peoples-coastline-0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 19px; font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica neue', sans-serif, 'Bitstream Vera Sans';font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 19px; font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica neue', sans-serif, 'Bitstream Vera Sans';font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=" line-height: normal;  font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Ya hace tiempo que leo la version online de 'Intelligent Life', una revista cultural del 'The Economist' que ofrece perfiles, entrevistas, publicaciones de blogs, y multimedia. Es gratis, como me gusta a mi!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 19px; font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica neue', sans-serif, 'Bitstream Vera Sans';font-size:13px;"&gt;Lo ultimo que he visto son fotos de las costas inglesas, muchas de las cuales tienen como sujeto fotografiado a niños.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1634166737883130009?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1634166737883130009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-inteligent-life-magazine-una.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1634166737883130009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1634166737883130009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-inteligent-life-magazine-una.html' title='More Intelligent Life- A magazine/ Una revista online'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3826366177166465926</id><published>2011-10-16T00:00:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T22:47:42.700+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Suiza/Switzerland'/><title type='text'>We are back/ De regreso</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It has been ages since I have written anything on Pitusita's world, and the thing is that lots and lots have been happening during the past few months: We have moved houses and even countries, and we have travelled and learned a lot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We are now living in the land of fondue, snowy mountains and historical neutrality. We miss London a little bit of course, but I am happy to report that we have managed to settle nicely on our new life, and Pitusita is enjoying her new home.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So, here we are again, and I will be happy to share our adventures with all of you once more. We are back!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yOFLuv5tzUo/TpoJAVDCfMI/AAAAAAAAAf8/OYDeWFZTd2s/s320/DSC_2328.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663849382626360514" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hace siglos que no escribo aquí en el mundo de Pitusita, y es que en los últimos meses muchas cosas han pasado, por ejemplo que hemos viajado un montón, y también nos hemos mudado. Hemos cambiado a Londres por la tierra del fondue, las montañas nevadas y la neutralidad histórica: Nos hemos mudado a la bella Suiza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Extrañamos un poquito nuestra antigua ciudad pero a decir verdad hemos logrado asentarnos sin contratiempos en la nueva vida. Y lo mas importante, Pitusita esta encantada.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por mi parte, vengo con mas ganas de seguir descubriendo y viviendo cada día a tope, y por supuesto compartirlo con todos ustedes. Así que ya estamos de vuelta!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3826366177166465926?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3826366177166465926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/we-are-back-de-regreso.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3826366177166465926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3826366177166465926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/we-are-back-de-regreso.html' title='We are back/ De regreso'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yOFLuv5tzUo/TpoJAVDCfMI/AAAAAAAAAf8/OYDeWFZTd2s/s72-c/DSC_2328.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-2510895036396525549</id><published>2010-10-01T11:03:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-11-04T18:11:55.310+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Lo sublime</title><content type='html'>Este blog es una oportunidad más para la expresión, que a través de la escritura o de la fotografía, me hace disfrutar doblemente de lo sublime de estar vivo, viajando, experimentando, conociendo.....A poco más de un año de haberlo comenzado he decidido tomar una pausa.  Gracias por ser parte de esta travesía.  Yo seguiré viajando por el mundo y también (y sobre todo), interiormente. Espero que algo aquí les haya inspirado para hacer lo mismo, y también espero volver dentro de poco con nuevas historias del mundo de P y poder re-encontrarte en esta casa virtual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This blog is and has been an opportunity to express myself through photography and writing. It has been an outlet for the sublime experience of living, travelling, learning, experimenting....Just over a year after I started it I have decided to take a break from it. Thank you for your presence and support.  I will try to continue travelling around the world but also, and maybe more importantly, within myself. I hope I have inspired you to do the same. Hopefully, I will be back soon enough with more stories to tell about Pitusita and her world, and maybe, just maybe, you will be back as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-2510895036396525549?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/2510895036396525549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/lo-sublime.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2510895036396525549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2510895036396525549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/lo-sublime.html' title='Lo sublime'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7224505132791789659</id><published>2010-09-20T20:21:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T20:46:03.732+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Surrey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Surrey is a region in the UK belonging to the home counties, the ones surrounding London. It is leafy, with nice neighbourhoods, great nurseries and state schools and good transportation links to the city. It might take from a 20 minute to an hour train ride to get you right in front of the Big Ben .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;A few months ago we decided to try out life in Surrey, and specifically in Elmbridge, a borough that includes the towns of Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Cobhan, Esher, Oxshott, and the villages and hamlets of Hersham, Thames Ditton, and Stoke D’Abernon. We had heard about its reputation as the area with the best quality of life in the whole country, and soon enough we were moving from a modern but small apartment in the middle of the city to a spacious house from the 70s in a similar budget.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;I can say that rural England is quite charming, and very quiet. The library, the post-office, the pharmacy and the supermarket are all in the same street, which also happens to be the only 100 meters of downtown. It comes with its own parking lot and a playground right next door. For &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;a city person, it might seem restrictive at first, but for a mom it is quite handy, and when I had a broken bone, it was just perfect. I could go on my crutches everywhere and accomplish absolutely everything without having to walk more than a few meters. If you visit London, I suggest you venture away from the city and visit Surrey. You could take the kids to one of the family farms, a cycling tour, or an equestrian center. Do not forget to check out the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elmbridgekids.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Elmbrigekids site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; to see what activities are taking place at any given time./&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;A bumble bee on a lavender flower in my garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJenfdG22TI/AAAAAAAAAfk/l2oJWooPCMg/s320/a+bumble+bee.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519064027197004082" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Abejorro en una flor de lavanda en mi patio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Surrey es una región del Reino Unido que pertenece a los condados que rodean a Londres, llamados en inglés los ‘home counties’. Sus barrios con abundante foliage, buenas guarderías y escuelas públicas, y el rápido sistema de transporte hacia la ciudad hacen de este lugar un punto de mira para familias que comienzan la vida escolar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Tan solo unos meses atrás decidimos probar la vida rural de Surrey. Me dí a la tarea de averiguar todo lo que tuviera que ver con la región. Aprendí que Elmbridge, el área que incluye los pueblos de Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Cobhan, Esher, y Oxshott, y los poblados y aldeas de Hersham, Thames Ditton, and Stoke D’Abernon, es considerado el mejor lugar de toda Gran Bretaña en lo concerniente a la calidad de vida, y es incluso donde llueve menos (según la encuesta, aunque es algo dudoso ). Así que nos mudamos de un moderno y pequeño apartamento en la ciudad a una casa de los años setenta en Elmbridge, y sin cambiar de presupuesto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Les puedo decir que la vida rural en Inglaterra hechiza pero es bastante tranquila. La biblioteca, la farmacia, el correo, el supermercado y todo lo demás que se necesita se encuentran en los mismos 100 metros que también constituyen el centro del pueblo. Y a tan solo unos metros hay un parque infantil y un estacionamento. Para una chica de ciudad pudiera al principio parecer un poco aburrido, pero para la vida familiar, andando con niños, todo es muy práctico y fácil. Y lo comprobé cuando me fracturé un hueso y pude hacer todas mis diligencias caminando solo unos pasos con la ayuda de mis muletas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Si visitas Londres te sugiero que te aventures a conocer los condados aledaños. Y si decides visitar alguna granja de Surrey, un centro ecuestre o te vas de bici por los senderos, no olvides visitar de antemano la página web dedicada a las &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elmbridgekids.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;actividades infantiles en Elmbridge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; y así poder planificar tu día.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7224505132791789659?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7224505132791789659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/surrey.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7224505132791789659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7224505132791789659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/surrey.html' title='Surrey'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJenfdG22TI/AAAAAAAAAfk/l2oJWooPCMg/s72-c/a+bumble+bee.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1879972859883640921</id><published>2010-09-16T16:17:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T17:41:33.339+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>The Museum of Childhood/El museo de la niñez</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIoPW-631I/AAAAAAAAAfc/IZ4xA1g3sn4/s1600/chm4.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIoEOizOvI/AAAAAAAAAfU/j4Lcc0vBpNg/s1600/chmentr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 204px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIoEOizOvI/AAAAAAAAAfU/j4Lcc0vBpNg/s320/chmentr.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517516546570926834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/"&gt;V&amp;amp;A Museum of Childhood&lt;/a&gt; is located just a block from the Bethnal Green tube station. The entrance is big and welcoming, and it is as most museums in London, free of charge. The building itself is spacious, with ramps and lifts to accommodate everyone. It is obvious that children with all their stuff, including buggies, coats, scooters and so on, are welcome. The display of toys and artefacts is impressive, and at times even spooky, particularly the wax dolls that look at you with huge eyes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;There is a cafe on the ground floor that sells sandwiches and fruits (including sizes for small bites). Perfect for P, who often eats only a quarter of her snack. There is also a lovely shop with rare children's books. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Glass cases on all floors show the history of childhood play. The section with dollhouses and the one with optical toys are absolutely amazing. On the second floor there was a recreation of a seaside holiday circa early 20th century, with sandpit, music and Punch and Judy included. P loved that part in particular, and it was truly difficult to peal her away from the puppets and the party atmosphere. I think this museum will appeal to both children and adults. It might make you wish you were a child once again.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIn9jEhuNI/AAAAAAAAAfM/oPWLMrVlEw4/s1600/chmsala.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIn9jEhuNI/AAAAAAAAAfM/oPWLMrVlEw4/s320/chmsala.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517516431822010578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIn3uBpLCI/AAAAAAAAAfE/UJRrNJDWsUE/s1600/chmrobot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIn3uBpLCI/AAAAAAAAAfE/UJRrNJDWsUE/s320/chmrobot.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517516331683490850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIoPW-631I/AAAAAAAAAfc/IZ4xA1g3sn4/s320/chm4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517516737814912850" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIndTRKDHI/AAAAAAAAAe8/ySorsEs4hv8/s1600/chmfish.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIndTRKDHI/AAAAAAAAAe8/ySorsEs4hv8/s320/chmfish.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517515877824203890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJInXBZBVQI/AAAAAAAAAe0/R_jNS1zo4Eo/s1600/chmdollja.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJInXBZBVQI/AAAAAAAAAe0/R_jNS1zo4Eo/s320/chmdollja.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517515769946133762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/"&gt;El Museo de la Niñez de Londres&lt;/a&gt; se encuentra a solo una cuadra de la estación de metro Bethnal Green. Su entrada es acogedora y como casi todos los museos de esta ciudad, también es gratuito. El edificio en sí es como una nave ancha con rampas y elevadores para facilitar el movimiento de niños y todo lo que le sigue, pues entre cochecitos, carriolas, bolsas, abrigos y el resto, se necesita espacio.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; La exposición de juguetes y artefactos relacionados con la infancia es impresionante y hasta da un poquito de miedo, sobre todo en la sección que muestra muñecas de cera de siglos anteriores que te miran fijamente.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En la planta baja hay una tiendecita y un café donde se pueden adquirir sandwiches, frutas y otras meriendas. Me encantó que hubiera todo tipo de porciones, ya que Pitusita se come a veces un cuarto de su bocadillo y no me gusta tener que botar el resto. La tiendecita por su parte incluye una selección de libros raros para niños. Raros puesto que no siempre se pueden comprar en cualquier tienda.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En los otros pisos, armarios de cristal muestran la historia de los juegos en la infancia e incluye casitas de muñecas de otras épocas y juguetes ópticos que antecedieron los televisores y ordenadores de hoy en día. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En el segundo piso vimos como se recreaban las vacaciones en las costas británicas, que fueran tan populares antaño. Y entre los juegos con la arena, la música, y el guiñol nos sentimos como si estuviéramos en Brighton al principio del sigo XX. Pitusita no quería irse de vuelta a casa, me costó trabajo despegarla de las marionetas.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Creo que este museo les gustará no solo a los niños sino también a los adultos, quienes querrán, además de imaginar la niñez de los abuelos, volver a su propia infan&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;cia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJInQPyDLtI/AAAAAAAAAes/vf3ZuxeDrx4/s1600/chm1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJInQPyDLtI/AAAAAAAAAes/vf3ZuxeDrx4/s320/chm1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517515653550124754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJInKIcWYBI/AAAAAAAAAek/XeKHzlRiPyw/s1600/chmcab.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJInKIcWYBI/AAAAAAAAAek/XeKHzlRiPyw/s320/chmcab.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517515548500844562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1879972859883640921?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1879972859883640921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/museum-of-childhoodel-museo-de-la-ninez.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1879972859883640921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1879972859883640921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/museum-of-childhoodel-museo-de-la-ninez.html' title='The Museum of Childhood/El museo de la niñez'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TJIoEOizOvI/AAAAAAAAAfU/j4Lcc0vBpNg/s72-c/chmentr.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1249134650361333978</id><published>2010-09-13T14:21:00.025+02:00</published><updated>2010-11-04T18:09:41.984+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='España/ Spain'/><title type='text'>Aún por la península ibérica/ Still around the Iberian peninsula</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Ronda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gf09l10I/AAAAAAAAAeU/0s6zCIVT4RM/s1600/anplaz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gf09l10I/AAAAAAAAAeU/0s6zCIVT4RM/s320/anplaz.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516382324740446018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;In Ronda's Bullring, the oldest in Spain, the "Corridas Goyescas" celebrating the way of life painted by Goya, still take place, and the beauty of the place is worth the trip up the mountains, including the nauseating instants due to motion sickness (I could not help it with the turning and swirling of the car). Some views are totally scary, especially the one from Puente Nuevo, next to the former Inquisition headquarters.//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;En la plaza de toros de Ronda, la plaza más vieja de España, las corridas Goyescas aún se festejan. La plaza y el museo albergado en su interior, junto a las calles adoquinadas que la circundan, hacen que uno sienta que ha valido la pena el haber hecho el viaje en carro a través de montañas que impresionan. Y es que a pesar del vértigo y la náusea provocada por tanto vaivén, uno no podría perderse tal escena, matizada por vistas dramáticas desde el puente nuevo, ese puente que esta justo al lado de los antiguos cuarteles de la inquisición.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gTGX8b4I/AAAAAAAAAeM/rJd9c0kMLxA/s1600/anronda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gTGX8b4I/AAAAAAAAAeM/rJd9c0kMLxA/s320/anronda.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516382106076082050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Marbella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Marbella is supposed to be the playground for the rich and famous, but the old town with its stores, squares and cafés, and the park full of figures made by Dalí, people strolling, and sellers of churros and chocolate everywhere, would make the poorest and unknown souls also welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gM2kZBnI/AAAAAAAAAeE/C3ykwmVLHSA/s1600/marbella3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gM2kZBnI/AAAAAAAAAeE/C3ykwmVLHSA/s320/marbella3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516381998754104946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Puerto Banus, a marina to the west,  is also a catwalk to show off.  If you cannot afford to dock your yacht over there do not despair and do as we did: Enjoy a mojito, or have an ice cream like P, while taking everything in like in a museum.//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gExK2NSI/AAAAAAAAAd8/pT-RGnqjgAk/s1600/marbella2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gExK2NSI/AAAAAAAAAd8/pT-RGnqjgAk/s320/marbella2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516381859865834786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Marbella se considera el patio de los ricos, bellos y famosos. Pero a decir verdad la parte vieja con sus tiendas, plazas y cafés, el parque con las figuras de Dalí, o los deliciosos churros que venden en carritos por las calles por pocos euros, la hacen un lugar interesante para todos. Y el fresco de la noche agrada hasta al más feo, pobre y anónimo de los mortales. Lo mismo ocurre con Puerto Banús, una marina un poco más al oeste que se convierte en pasarela para lucir excesos. Pero si no tienes tu yate en la marina, no desesperes, haz como yo que me tomé un mojito, o como P que se comió un helado mientras ambas nos hacíamos la idea de que estábamos en un museo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4f51T12BI/AAAAAAAAAd0/9ckUe9xXdyc/s320/marbella1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516381671998740498" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4ZCgjg45I/AAAAAAAAAds/2DsTeleCHis/s1600/gib.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4ZCgjg45I/AAAAAAAAAds/2DsTeleCHis/s320/gib.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516374124464759698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Gibraltar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;El guía gibraltareño que nos condujo a través del peñón dijo algo que todavía tengo en mi memoria: 'Gibraltar no es para ser cedido por los británicos ni para ser tomado por los españoles sino para los gibraltareños'. Su manera de hablar me sorprendió, aún cuando sabía que el tema era un punto candente en las relaciones entre España y el Reino Unido. Para mí el peñón era simplemente un punto más a visitar en mi itinerario turístico, un lugar ideal para alguna ganga, una roca agujereada por túneles que sirvieron de refugio en la Segunda guerra mundial, pero para este hombre, Gibraltar era su vida, sus raíces y su historia./&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4Yqb1Sm3I/AAAAAAAAAdk/FNvHR6KhILs/s1600/gib1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 164px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4Yqb1Sm3I/AAAAAAAAAdk/FNvHR6KhILs/s320/gib1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516373710880283506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YhPnc79I/AAAAAAAAAdc/V1GLH3Kz5g0/s1600/gib2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YhPnc79I/AAAAAAAAAdc/V1GLH3Kz5g0/s320/gib2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516373552982192082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YS1rTlGI/AAAAAAAAAdU/PrdIPj0jK2E/s1600/gib3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YS1rTlGI/AAAAAAAAAdU/PrdIPj0jK2E/s320/gib3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516373305500865634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Our guide in Gib talked in a flawless English with a British accent when speaking that language, and also with a perfect Spanish with an Andalusian flair when switching. He said something that I still remember. Something in the lines of..."Gibraltar is not for the British to give or the Spaniards to take but for the People of Gibraltar to decide" I knew the topic was a contentious point but to talk about it even on our short trip surprised me. For me the rock had been just another point in my itinerary, maybe a place where I could shop for a bargain, and which looked like a piece of cheese full of holes that served as refuge during WWII. But for this man Gibraltar is his life, his history. It is alive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YNKKuK1I/AAAAAAAAAdM/nAsLOPlk-C0/s1600/gib4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YNKKuK1I/AAAAAAAAAdM/nAsLOPlk-C0/s320/gib4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516373207922125650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YEpnit1I/AAAAAAAAAdE/mZn6r9UL8D0/s1600/gib5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4YEpnit1I/AAAAAAAAAdE/mZn6r9UL8D0/s320/gib5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516373061745686354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Apple Chancery'; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;El aeropuerto de Gibraltar sorprende pues corta la entrada abruptamente. No es raro que se pare el tráfico para dejar despegar un avión. Imagino que es imposible construir un aeropuerto en otro lugar, ya que todo es rocoso. De hecho el nombre Gibraltar, según nos explicó el guía saltando sin pestañear entre un inglés con marcado acento británico y un español con fuerte acento andaluz, se deriva del árabe y quiere decir la montaña de Tariq (Jamal Tariq), o lo que es lo mismo, la montaña del general moro que conquistó la Iberia de los Visigodos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Apple Chancery'; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Hoy por hoy Gibraltar ofrece además de la oportunidad para practicar la paciencia en la espera para cruzar la línea (frontera), un chance para ver a los monos macacos, quienes se han convertido en verdaderos pandilleros que están a la caza de cualquier cosa para comer y lo mismo se roban un helado de la mano de un niño, que entran por la ventanilla de un carro y abren las bolsas que se han quedado en los asientos. También se pueden apreciar vistas increíbles que en un día despejado muestran el norte de Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Apple Chancery'; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4Xs40aVKI/AAAAAAAAAc8/cci2xg-8_PM/s1600/gib6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4Xs40aVKI/AAAAAAAAAc8/cci2xg-8_PM/s320/gib6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516372653509334178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4XmBvVs8I/AAAAAAAAAc0/mcWOY3bpjjM/s1600/gib7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4XmBvVs8I/AAAAAAAAAc0/mcWOY3bpjjM/s320/gib7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516372535644894146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The airport in Gibraltar is at the entrance and it cuts the way to the rock. So it is not rare if traffic stops to let a plane land or take off. It took us more than 2 hrs to cross the line (or frontier). It was an exercise in patience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The name Gibraltar comes from the arab Jamal Tariq, meaning mountain of Tariq, the general who conquered the Iberian peninsula from the Visigoths. Today it gives an opportunity to see the macaques, authentic thieves that hunt children's ice creams, or anything edible left behind inside cars and lorries. It also can give you the chance to see, from the Europa Point, the north of Africa on a clear day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4Xe6PdPCI/AAAAAAAAAcs/a0daeVOmoio/s1600/gib8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4Xe6PdPCI/AAAAAAAAAcs/a0daeVOmoio/s320/gib8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516372413373037602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;......and that is all for these series/ Y colorín colorado, esta serie se ha acabado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Chao, Pitusa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4XYmozxII/AAAAAAAAAck/Qc5dNZ2jvdo/s1600/gib.jpg"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1249134650361333978?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1249134650361333978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/aun-por-la-peninsula-iberica-still.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1249134650361333978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1249134650361333978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/aun-por-la-peninsula-iberica-still.html' title='Aún por la península ibérica/ Still around the Iberian peninsula'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TI4gf09l10I/AAAAAAAAAeU/0s6zCIVT4RM/s72-c/anplaz.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-742008792467319170</id><published>2010-09-07T13:09:00.027+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-13T19:04:56.970+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='España/ Spain'/><title type='text'>Andalucia (Part II)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZeWbFfK-I/AAAAAAAAAcU/Ag7M7Gsfpc4/s1600/alha2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZeWbFfK-I/AAAAAAAAAcU/Ag7M7Gsfpc4/s320/alha2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514198533082655714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; display: inline ! important;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La Alhambra&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; display: inline ! important;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Visiting la  Alhambra in Granada requires a whole super organized operation. You need to get tickets in advance either by phone or internet. The earliest available for us was 8 days away. Then you need to be at the gate at least one hour before the designated time to retrieve the tickets, and you can only visit the Nasrid palaces at the particular time specified. Remember that between parking, walking and queues, time does fly. There is anyways a courtesy extension of half an hour for those who are a little late. The rest of the complex can be visited at for as long as you want to.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; display: inline ! important;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La Alhambra is a Unesco World Heritage site and was built for the emirs of the Nasrid dynasty. The elaborate ceilings, the mosaics and the fountains are beyond beautiful.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; display: inline ! important;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);font-family:Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZeR1Xps8I/AAAAAAAAAcM/YKvttyvKePs/s320/alha1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514198454238819266" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Visitar La Alhambra de Granada requiere de una operación bien organizada. Necesitas comprar las entradas por adelantado a través de la internet o el teléfono. Nosotros tuvimos que comprarlas 8 días antes pues en Agosto va mucha gente. Luego necesitas recogerlas al menos con una hora de antelación y solo se pueden visitar los palacios Nazaries a la hora acordada, aunque extienden una media hora como cortesía. El resto del complejo puede visitarse por cuanto tiempo se desee.&lt;br /&gt;La Alhambra ha sido declarada por la Unesco, patrimonio de la humanidad. Fué construida para los emirs de la dinastia nazarie. Los techos, las fuentes, los mosaicos y azulejos son increíblemente bellos.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; display: inline ! important;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZea8jdR7I/AAAAAAAAAcc/F3Qumq9WlQg/s320/alha3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514198610786207666" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Málaga&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZVsLfrp-I/AAAAAAAAAcE/0x9m6uz5iuU/s1600/manca.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZVsLfrp-I/AAAAAAAAAcE/0x9m6uz5iuU/s320/manca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514189011250030562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La catedral de Málaga tiene un interior de estilo renacentista pero su fachada es de estilo barróco y cuando entras enseguida te sientes resguardado del sol, del calor, del bullicio de la ciudad y quizás de muchas otras cos&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;as.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:'Apple Chancery';font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le dicen &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;a la catedral, la manquita, ya que una de sus torres está inacabada. Yo creo que le da un toque especial, y la hacen difícil de olvidar./&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZVB6GeZVI/AAAAAAAAAb8/MbU4mb2QE5A/s320/catedmalaga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514188285026395474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Cathedral has a r&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;enna&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;issa&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;nce interior but a bar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;oque façade. As soon as you enter you feel the coolness of the place that saves you from the heat, the noise, and w&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ho knows from what else.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;They call the cathedral the one-arm lady, due to its incomplete second tower. I think it gives it something special, at least you cannot forget that detail.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; min-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Málaga esta llena de toldos que proyectan una suave sombra y en cada esquina hay algún que otro quiosco con agua, helados y sorbetos. Pitusita era fan número uno de  esos pequeños sorbetos de fres&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;a y limón.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Si sigues caminando te encuentras con &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;El Pimpi, una bodega bien andaluza, donde la farándula se da cita para hablar de cine y música entre tapas. Barriles firmados por artistas como Lola Flores o Antonio Banderas, llenan el establecimiento.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Casi a la salida del Pimpi está La alcazaba de Málaga, la mejor preservada de toda España. A su entrada se pueden apreciar las ruinas de un anfiteatro romano./&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIYfXSzjnnI/AAAAAAAAAbk/uC986tq6imY/s320/banderas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514129278807285362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIYenQWJ3HI/AAAAAAAAAbc/WJnQ9JWp5hE/s320/el+pimpi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514128453513370738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 257px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIYeCJdJAyI/AAAAAAAAAbU/IRREBpisZMo/s320/anfiteatro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514127816008467234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIYd21b_iZI/AAAAAAAAAbM/HprtRRV7JmM/s320/alcazaba+ruinas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514127621656381842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIYdjn1RbdI/AAAAAAAAAbE/Lj3mmp7frIc/s320/alcazaba+ceramics.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514127291586801106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The skies are covered by awnings in balconies or going from opposite sidewalks, giving a generous shade to the pedestrians. In every other corner you can find a kiosk with water, sorbets and ice-creams. Pitusita was a fan of  the strawberry and lemon flavours.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;If you continue walking you might encounter “El Pimpi”, a lovely winebar where artists chat about cinema or music. Wooden barrels signed by famous people such as Anton&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;io Banderas or the late Lola Flores, fill out the place.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Close to El Pimpi you will find the Alcazaba, the best preserved moorish fortification in Spain. Outside its entrance there are ruins of a Roman anfitheater. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; min-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; min-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Benalmádena&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery'; min-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La marina de Benalmádena- un municipio que pertenece a Málaga- es exactamente como uno imagina una marina. Está llena de vida,  gente,  yates, carros de última marca, comercios que venden artesanías locales, bandanas o toallas de playa. Los cafés, clubs, bares o heladerías ofrecen esparcimiento para todas las edades./&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIYiSirbH-I/AAAAAAAAAb0/mwJO5K4DjE8/s320/bena2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514132495703678946" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIYiN7V687I/AAAAAAAAAbs/I4RBKR5HwY4/s320/bena1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514132416425030578" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 247px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Benalmádena is a municipality of Malaga and its marina is exactly as one imagines it would be: Full of life, people, yatchs, luxury cars, craft and beach shops, cafes, bars, clubs, ice-cream parlors...the choice will cover any age range.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In the next entry I will tell you about our visit to Gibraltar, Ronda and Marbella.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px 'Apple Chancery';"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-742008792467319170?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/742008792467319170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/andalucia-part-ii.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/742008792467319170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/742008792467319170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/andalucia-part-ii.html' title='Andalucia (Part II)'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TIZeWbFfK-I/AAAAAAAAAcU/Ag7M7Gsfpc4/s72-c/alha2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7214241727514114676</id><published>2010-09-02T14:59:00.025+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-07T17:53:26.384+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='España/ Spain'/><title type='text'>Andalucia (Part I)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-4wJzBWNI/AAAAAAAAAak/Ihj0rI9Ad6A/s320/caballodanza.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512327606327924946" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The holiday:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Andaluzzzzzzzzzia brings back to life even the saddest creature on earth. There is sunshine galore, colorful flamenco dancers, great tapas bars, and beautiful evening “promenades”, and la&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt; Costa del Sol is really to die for (or get fried), we &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;got 49 degrees one lovely afternoon. But seriously though, we were really spoiled by all the beauty surrounding us. To top it all, we spent our vacations lo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;dged in a real “cortijo”, tucked in the mountains with dear friends, enjoying good food and even better after-dinner conversations.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 188px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-9cAWJRfI/AAAAAAAAAas/HxL1-BmY_-E/s320/cuarentaynueve.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512332757751645682" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;49 grados/degrees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Las vacaciones:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Andaluzzzzzzzzzzzzía le devuelve la vida al más triste de los mortales. La luz anda (Andaluz) por doquier acompañando a las bailadoras de flamenco con sus vestidos coloridos y tanto arte. Y las tapas al mediodía, o los paseos al atardecer te hacen olvidar el calor sofocante de Agosto (hizo hasta 49 grados). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La belleza es simplemente abrumadora. Estuvimos alojados en un cortijo, en las montañas con amigos, buenas cenas y aún mejores sobremesas.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0bjs2QxI/AAAAAAAAAac/xVRq0eVUKOA/s320/vista2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512322854457590546" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;The view from the house/ la vista desde el cortijo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Restaurants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0UH86PtI/AAAAAAAAAaU/XaFNEo9BLjo/s320/view.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512322726749683410" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0MkvpcWI/AAAAAAAAAaM/ed2GZh6to_I/s320/parroquia.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512322597039731042" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;La parroquia de Mijas/ The little church in Mijas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0Ha7YkOI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cZH7Ng5aeTg/s1600/paella.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0Ha7YkOI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cZH7Ng5aeTg/s320/paella.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512322508505256162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Paella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0B8ly_xI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/i_rg4nEADl4/s1600/mijas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0B8ly_xI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/i_rg4nEADl4/s320/mijas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512322414462304018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Plaza de toros/ Bullring in Mijas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-z5jzB6CI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/PZ5PJhSKmco/s1600/mesa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-z5jzB6CI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/PZ5PJhSKmco/s320/mesa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512322270367967266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Dinner time/ Listos para cenar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The place:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Apple Chancery'; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;El cortijo is a typical rural farmhouse in souther Spain. It is formed of disperse dwellings, the main house, a chapel and views that take your breath away. Ours was close to Mijas, a lovely town up in the mountains, where donkey tours are the icing on the cake. Lydia and her husband were great hosts that even organized a dinner where guests traded stories over a good wine and paella .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH_KOYF3YGI/AAAAAAAAAa8/DsL7FDS2gmg/s320/cortijo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512346817258807394" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-style: normal;  font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;El Cortijo es la típica vivienda rural de Andalucía . Está formado por casitas dispersas, la tierra que lo circunda, la casa principal, la capilla y vistas increíbles. El nuestro estaba cerca de Mijas, un pueblito blanco escondido en las montañas, donde los burros te hacen darle la vuelta al pueblo en unos minutos. Lydia y su esposo fueron nuestros anfitriones, organizaron una comida para todos los huéspedes la penúltima noche, y entre vino, historias y paella se nos fueron las horas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zl4OIBiI/AAAAAAAAAZk/ebn6lGfgHS4/s1600/calle3.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zl4OIBiI/AAAAAAAAAZk/ebn6lGfgHS4/s1600/calle3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zl4OIBiI/AAAAAAAAAZk/ebn6lGfgHS4/s320/calle3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512321932252939810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Calles de Mijas/ Streets in Mijas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zgId1bOI/AAAAAAAAAZc/Fp1S4jAhJU0/s1600/calle2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zgId1bOI/AAAAAAAAAZc/Fp1S4jAhJU0/s320/calle2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512321833534581986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zaUjaQVI/AAAAAAAAAZU/HhAFTnvq2dg/s1600/calle1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zaUjaQVI/AAAAAAAAAZU/HhAFTnvq2dg/s320/calle1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512321733699977554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zVHn6bUI/AAAAAAAAAZM/m6ThmDKgdbM/s320/burros.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512321644329856322" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Do you need a taxi?/ Necesitas un taxi?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 312px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-zPS7BDlI/AAAAAAAAAZE/8b1BInLTq6M/s320/burro.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512321544283557458" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The essentials:  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Andalusia is a region where sunlight is quite intense, so remember water, water, and more water....keep yourself and the kids hydrated! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sun protection, and not only around the pool, but at all times. Lip-balm, and a hat or bandana are also at the top of the list. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;We got all sorts of creams for sun protection and after-sun care, but the star of the pack was one of those spf+50 face sticks. It is handy and small, and with a stroke of a T (nose and cheeks) hyperactive children and adults who hate to apply stuff on (you know who you are) are set to go.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Planning: I love the DK guides with their schemas and photos which are very much to the point, but there are plenty of other series on the market. I had the general one for Spain as a whole and our friends had the more specific one about Andalusia. Just stick to one main activity per day, t&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;he kids will appreciate the visit to just one city, living the late afternoon to unwind even more with&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt; an ice-cream, swimming or whatever they are up to.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Remember about safety: have someone supervising the kids, be aware of their whereabouts, use common sense, explain the rules and always be careful about the pool. Our number one rule was to always wear arm bands in the pool area.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;If you can visit with friends with children, the more the merrier. I know this might sound like a typical advice for all vacations, but not so. (For instance, I found Kyoto better suitable for introspection) Spain, and Andalusia in particular, is a perfect place for evenings where children play and laugh on their own with other little friends, while you enjoy a glass of the local sherry and some jamón ibérico (Ham) while listening to a sevillana and talking to your friends. Olé!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In the next post I will write about the different towns we visited.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH_Ha7w2ZPI/AAAAAAAAAa0/uX7eJMsSeQc/s320/plaza+mijas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512343734457885938" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0Ha7YkOI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cZH7Ng5aeTg/s1600/paella.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0Ha7YkOI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cZH7Ng5aeTg/s1600/paella.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-0Ha7YkOI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cZH7Ng5aeTg/s1600/paella.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Mijas Plaza de toros/ Bullring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cositas a tener en cuenta:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Agua, agua y más agua. Recuerda hidratarte ( y a los niños) en todo momento, Andalucia es la región donde la luz del sol anda y desanda.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Protége la piel y no sólo en la playa o la piscina sino a toda hora. Y recuerda llevar sombrero o bandana y crema de labios. Nosotros teníamos miles de cremitas y pociones pero la estrella fue uno de esos pomitos de protección para la cara de +50. Un pincelazo en forma de T y listos, pómulos y nariz resguardados. Algún que otro adulto  (sabes quien eres) también se benefició de tan pronta maniobra.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lleva una guía, a mi me gusta la DK, y tenía la de España al completo, nuestros amigos en cambio llevaron la de Andalucía en específico, pero hay miles en el mercado, así puedes planificarte y hasta tener material de lectura descansando en la playa.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Recomiendo solo una actividad al día, si queda tiempo puedes improvisar pero los chicos a veces se aburren o cansan y prefieren tener extra para ese helado o algo de piscina en la tarde.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Define las reglas desde el principio. Nuestra regla principal para P era andar en el area de la piscina con los flotadores en todo momento.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Si puedes visita con amigos con niños. Parecería un consejo para todo tipo de vacaciones pero no es el caso. Hay otros lugares que se disfrutan más en soledad o con poca gente. (Ex. Kyoto), pero esta región se presta muy bien para noches disfrutando de un jerez y del jamón ibérico, escuchando sevillanas y conversando, mientras que los chicos juegan entre sí. ¡Olé!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 19.0px"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-style: normal;  font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;En la próxima entrada les contaré de los diferentes lugares que visitamos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Apple Chancery'; min-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'Apple Chancery';font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7214241727514114676?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7214241727514114676/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/andalucia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7214241727514114676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7214241727514114676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/andalucia.html' title='Andalucia (Part I)'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TH-4wJzBWNI/AAAAAAAAAak/Ihj0rI9Ad6A/s72-c/caballodanza.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-8338914258724715713</id><published>2010-08-12T22:40:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-12T22:42:28.015+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Chao</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;El mundo de Pitusita se va de vacaciones a explorar el mundo. Así que en las próximas semanas por aquí habrá algo de silencio de mi parte, pero no necesariamente de la tuya. Puedes leer entradas anteriores, pinchar en los enlances, ver de lo que hablamos hace meses.......Eso es si no estas también de vacaciones y haciendo un alto en tu consumo de internet. Yo me desconectaré. Nada de emails, llamadas telefónicas, o blog. La meditación, buenos libros, el mar, comidas con los amigos, y el sol, recargarán mis baterias. (Como a Wall-e)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Hoy ando haciendo el equipaje, (ahora escribo esto mientras tomo un té) y me guío por alguna que otra página de un libro de la “Rough Guide” titulado, Viajar con bebés y niños pequeños. Y me doy cuenta que habitualmente soy mas amiga de la improvisación que de las listas, pero desde que Pitusita existe, me empeño en hacer cada cosa un poquito mejor. A veces lo logro y otras me digo, a  volverlo intentar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Cualdo vuelva contaré nuestras aventuras. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Chao, por ahora.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Pitusa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'; min-height: 19.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Pitusita’s world is going on vacation to explore the world. During the next few weeks there will be some silence around here, but it does not need to be total. You can read again previous posts, click on the links, check out old photos, and so on.....or not....maybe you are on a holiday somewhere without internet or maybe you just want to take it easy for a while. I, myself, will try to disconnect from all types of machines: no blog, emails or phone calls for me. Meditation, books, the sea, friends, and the sun will be my substitutes. I will recharge my batteries that way ( Like Wall-e?) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Now I am packing (just took 5 mins to write and have a cup of tea) and I am skimming through a book from the “Rough Guide” series called :The rough guide to travel with babies and young children. I realize that I used to prefer improvisation to any kind of list. But.....since Pitusita was born I try my very best at everything that has to do with her. Sometimes I manage to do it, and others, I just try again....When we come back I will write about our adventures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Apple Chancery'"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Chao for now, Pitusa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-8338914258724715713?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/8338914258724715713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/chao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8338914258724715713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8338914258724715713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/chao.html' title='Chao'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-5202625155149552794</id><published>2010-08-12T11:30:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-12T22:43:12.760+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>The Transport museum in London/El Museo del Transporte en Londres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TGPDWL28CMI/AAAAAAAAAYs/RA8D8UYA1O4/s1600/tate+to+tate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TGPDWL28CMI/AAAAAAAAAYs/RA8D8UYA1O4/s320/tate+to+tate.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504457955484633282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Didot; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tate to Tate. Available on &lt;a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/shop/"&gt;Tate Online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Didot; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Didot; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;To get an idea of London as a city I would recommend you to, well ...........Get out of that chair and get over here to experience/taste/smell the real thing ;).......but if you cannot do it this very second, do not despair, you can still travel virtually by taking a look at this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-480327"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;time-lapse from CNN iReport&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;. When you actually make it to London, do not forget to take the children to all the well-known museums. I talked about them in another &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/londons-parks-museums-los-parques-y.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;pos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/londons-parks-museums-los-parques-y.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, they are mostly free and might accept donations but it is not compulsory.  To get a taste of the evolution of this city, visit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The London Transport museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;. Its exhibition looks into the 160 year history of the transport system and there are pictures taken during the 1800‘s all the way to the latest projections of eco friendly transport options for the future. You will get a feeling of the amazing transformation that overtook this vibrant city. The museum is located in an old flower market off Covent Garden, right behind the flea market. The whole exhibition is spiced up with children’s activities such as the stamper trail, where kids collect stamps on different pits following a map. Children go free and adults pay a small entrance fee (8 pounds). There is also a lovely upper deck cafe overlooking the shop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Didot; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;After covering the theory in this museum (point A), you can then do the field work and face the real thing, take the tube, then get on a double decker, and finally walk the rest of the way, and get to point B, hopefully B will be any of the great places within London full of fun and joy for the whole family. //&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Didot; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Didot; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Para tener una idea de la ciudad de Londres lo mejor es, bueno...venir a verla, levantarse de esa butaca y ponerse las pilas....pero si no puedes hacerlo por ahora, no sufras, aun puedes viajar, al menos con tus sentidos, viendo este &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-480327"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;video en time-lapse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; que fue enviado a la sección iReport de la CNN. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Didot; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Pero cuando ya puedas ir a Londres en realidad, no olvides llevar a los niños a los museos más famosos de la ciudad, ya he hablado en otras &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/londons-parks-museums-los-parques-y.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;entradas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; acerca de ellos, muchos son gratuitos, pero también acceptan donaciones.  Y para ver de manera palpable la transformación de esta ciudad, recomiendo un saltico al &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Museo del Transporte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;. La exhibición comienza mostrando fotos del sigo XIX y continúa hasta terminar con proyecciones de las opciones mas ecológicas para el futuro. El museo se encuentra en un antiguo mercado de flores, en Covent Garden, detrás del bazar de pulgas (pulguero?) Y los niños la pasarán bien con tantas actividades. (Pitusita logró acuñar todo lo que pedían en la búsqueda de artefactos en un mapa). Las entradas de los chicos son gratuitas, y los adultos pagan 8 libras. También tienen un café en la mezzanine, encima de la tiendecita donde Pitusita disfrutó de un batido de fresa. Así que después de que conozcas la teoría descrita en el museo,te aconsejaría que fueras de ese punto A a cualquier punto B de la ciudad, tomando el metro, o uno de los autobuses dobles, o caminando las avenidas, para disfrutar de Londres, no en time-lapse, sino en tiempo real.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-5202625155149552794?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/5202625155149552794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/transport-museum-in-londonel-museo-del.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5202625155149552794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5202625155149552794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/transport-museum-in-londonel-museo-del.html' title='The Transport museum in London/El Museo del Transporte en Londres'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TGPDWL28CMI/AAAAAAAAAYs/RA8D8UYA1O4/s72-c/tate+to+tate.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-2641954150696985488</id><published>2010-08-11T01:53:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-11T02:10:17.140+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Quedaciones/ Staycations</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Due to the crisis in Europe, many families now choose to have a ‘staycation’, a vacation at home instead of abroad, which could be considerably more expensive. Ideas for a great ‘staycation’ include camping in the backyard with the kids, bbq’s at home, reading all those novels we always wanted to read but never found the time to do so, and for those who do not have the real thing, relaxing in an inflatable pool in the garden. Could one get the real feeling of a holiday staying home? Do you have any ideas for a great ‘staycation’? Is the experience as fulfilling as the real thing?//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TGHp_XGAxHI/AAAAAAAAAYk/H5FE7b-M3zg/s320/staycation.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503937494363718770" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Hay un fenómeno bastante popular por estos lares al que llaman ‘quedaciones’, o algo así, y siginifica quedarse en casa de vacaciones. Y esta muy de moda debido sobre todo a la crisis financiera que impide irse lejos (y gastar m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;ás).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Ideas para las quedaciones son muchas: Acampar en el patio con los niños, asados en familia, leer novelas para las que nunca encontramos tiempo, o incluso relajarnos en piscinitas inflables, ya que muchos no tenemos la real. ¿Lo haz hecho alguna vez? ¿Tienes otras ideas para unas buenas quedaciones? ¿Se puede descansar a plenitud si nos quedamos en casa?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-2641954150696985488?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/2641954150696985488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/quedaciones-staycations.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2641954150696985488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2641954150696985488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/quedaciones-staycations.html' title='Quedaciones/ Staycations'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TGHp_XGAxHI/AAAAAAAAAYk/H5FE7b-M3zg/s72-c/staycation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1248241458891648732</id><published>2010-08-09T14:18:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-09T15:39:21.440+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books and Films/Libros y Películas'/><title type='text'>Sofia's search// La búsqueda de Sofía</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Sofia Coppola is one of those film-makers that brings a Je-ne-sais-quoi to all her films. There is beauty, poetry, longing, and more questions than answers. In “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAS92XPvIM"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Lost in translation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;”, which takes place in Japan, she manages to convey the sense of loss that sometimes accompanies our adventures in a foreign place. The very essence of searching, be it searching for one’s identity, happiness, or just the search for a concrete place to eat, is depicted with great craftsmanship. If you have not seen her work, this film might be a good start, otherwise watch Marie Antoinette - who after all was another foreigner (an Austrian) who lived and died under the guillotine, in France, and enjoy the rich images of the court playing dress up . There is also a new movie that I have yet to watch called Somewhere. I have seen the the trailer and it looks promising, with Sofia’s fresh aesthetics//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Sofía Coppola es una realizadora que siempre añade un "algo" especial a sus películas. En ellas hay belleza, poesía, nostalgia y casi siempre mas preguntas que respuestas. En el filme "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAS92XPvIM"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Lost in Translation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;", que trata, entre otras cosas, de la afinidad entre dos desconocidos en el Japón, se las arregla para brindar la esencia de lo que significa estar perdidos en un mundo extranjero. Ella retrata con talento lo que es la búsqueda de la propia identidad, de la felicidad, o de algo tan concreto como un lugar donde comer. Si no has visto sus trabajos, esta peli es una buena opción. Ella tambié&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;n ha hecho otras como Maria Antonieta, quien al fin y al cabo también era una extranjera (austriaca) que vivió y murió guillotinada, en Francia. Las imágenes de una corte jugando a las casitas y probándose ropajes, es para deleitar. Ahora hay otro filme que aún no he visto, pero que según los avances promete. Se llama Somewhere (En algún lugar?) y parece traer más de lo mismo, ese "algo especial" de la estética de Sofía Coppola.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1248241458891648732?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1248241458891648732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/sofias-search-la-busqueda-de-sofia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1248241458891648732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1248241458891648732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/sofias-search-la-busqueda-de-sofia.html' title='Sofia&apos;s search// La búsqueda de Sofía'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3760079877901507516</id><published>2010-08-05T17:04:00.018+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-06T19:00:18.908+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scotland/ Escocia'/><title type='text'>Las  tierras altas de Escocia/ The Scottish Highlands</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw_WhU549I/AAAAAAAAAYc/qIoBNcocI7c/s1600/eilean+donan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw_WhU549I/AAAAAAAAAYc/qIoBNcocI7c/s320/eilean+donan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502342500875625426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Eilean Donan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw7nCVHNpI/AAAAAAAAAYU/O4mTrYu-ZSI/s1600/view+from+st.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw7nCVHNpI/AAAAAAAAAYU/O4mTrYu-ZSI/s320/view+from+st.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502338386566264466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;font-size:78%;" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;View from Stirling castle&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I have recently read that the Queen and the British royal family went on a ten-day cruise around the Scottish islands on the &lt;a href="http://www.hebridean.co.uk/ship/index.html"&gt;Hebridean Princess&lt;/a&gt;, the smallest luxury cruiser in the world. Many have questioned her choice of location for a summer holiday, but I think I do understand it because I love &lt;a href="http://www.visitscotland.com/"&gt;Scotland&lt;/a&gt; in the summer. I find the misty Scottish highlands sort of charming. We actually celebrated P ‘s birthday last year by taking a road trip all the way to Isle of Skye, which is on the northwest of the UK. We did our share of visits to castles (my choice), and Whisky distilleries ( Mr. P’s choice), and Loch ness (Pitusita’s choice), and truly enjoyed getting away from busy London. We experienced all the clichés, including driving painfully slowly due to a) wandering sheep, b) very narrow roads, c) foggy weather, and d) all of the above. We loved the calmness of sleepy villages close to Inverness, but were also a little disappointed when we did not see the monster surfacing in Loch Ness, just a tiny welcome center with some souvenirs. All in all, it was a great and easy holiday to have with children in tow. You might be surprised by how relaxed you feel at the end, the beauty of its nature is enough to give you a zen experience.//&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw7f_kPs0I/AAAAAAAAAYM/oGH0WFmopjs/s1600/water1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw7f_kPs0I/AAAAAAAAAYM/oGH0WFmopjs/s320/water1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502338265565344578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Beautiful Cliffs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw7BvZ_22I/AAAAAAAAAYE/pPjFujDazVk/s1600/road.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw7BvZ_22I/AAAAAAAAAYE/pPjFujDazVk/s320/road.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502337745831320418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The road ahead/ el camino por delante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw67vGvp7I/AAAAAAAAAX8/aUgqTihwBS8/s1600/sheep.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw67vGvp7I/AAAAAAAAAX8/aUgqTihwBS8/s320/sheep.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502337642671351730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6tZB3N6I/AAAAAAAAAX0/dTl8OyAQe0U/s1600/laggan.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6tZB3N6I/AAAAAAAAAX0/dTl8OyAQe0U/s320/laggan.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502337396227127202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Laggan Dam/Dique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6nWYUm6I/AAAAAAAAAXs/w7ifNpIzQUA/s1600/inn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6nWYUm6I/AAAAAAAAAXs/w7ifNpIzQUA/s320/inn.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502337292436806562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Inn in/ motel en  Kyle of lochalsch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6hQ3TF4I/AAAAAAAAAXk/0NX5j_bWYe0/s1600/focas.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6hQ3TF4I/AAAAAAAAAXk/0NX5j_bWYe0/s320/focas.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502337187876902786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Focas / Seals in the wild&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6a1sUwoI/AAAAAAAAAXc/PiWJmNYrYKw/s1600/focas1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6a1sUwoI/AAAAAAAAAXc/PiWJmNYrYKw/s320/focas1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502337077503902338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p   style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hace poco leí&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; que la Reina, acompañada por la familia real británica, se fue de vacaciones en crucero por las islas escocesas, en el &lt;a href="http://www.hebridean.co.uk/ship/index.html"&gt;Hebridean Princess&lt;/a&gt;, el crucero de lujo mas pequeño del mundo, y que muchos habían cuestionado esta decisión. ¿Por qué no ir, por ejemplo, a algún paradero solitario con playa y sol? Pero creo que sí entiendo el por qué de &lt;a href="http://international.visitscotland.com/es/"&gt;Escocia&lt;/a&gt; como destino. Y es que las tierras altas escocesas tienen su encanto. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;El año pasado nosotros escogimos este mismo lugar para celebrar el cumple de Pitusita, haciendo un recorrido en carro por todo el norte, hasta llegar a la isla de Skye. Visitamos castillos (mi opción), diferentes destilerías de whisky (la opción de el Sr. P) y Loch Ness (la de Pitusita). Experimentamos todos los clichés, incluyendo el de conducir muy despacio por causa de a) ovejitas en medio del camino, b) calles hiper-estrechas, c) niebla, y d) todo lo anterior. Nos encantó&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; la calma&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; de los pueblecitos alrededor de Inverness, las vistas del mar, las imágenes de postales, pero nos desilusionó un poquito el no ver al famoso monstruo emergiendo del lago, y encontrar en su lugar una tiendecita en un triste centro de bienvenida. En general fueron unas vacaciones serenas, y muy buenas para hacer con los niños. La belleza de la naturaleza es tal que te sientes totalmente zen al final del viaje.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6UA2KP5I/AAAAAAAAAXU/W_hWRqsSM9s/s1600/castle.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6UA2KP5I/AAAAAAAAAXU/W_hWRqsSM9s/s320/castle.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502336960238862226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Dunvegan castle/ castillo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6PIrqu4I/AAAAAAAAAXM/L-mYSzAGvp4/s1600/edradour.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 289px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6PIrqu4I/AAAAAAAAAXM/L-mYSzAGvp4/s320/edradour.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502336876442991490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;La destileria mas pequena de Escocia/ the smallest distillery &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6JgQicyI/AAAAAAAAAXE/nQN7LgIlYuE/s1600/cliff1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw6JgQicyI/AAAAAAAAAXE/nQN7LgIlYuE/s320/cliff1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502336779692438306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Acantilados&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3760079877901507516?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3760079877901507516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/las-tierras-altas-de-escocia-scottish.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3760079877901507516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3760079877901507516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/las-tierras-altas-de-escocia-scottish.html' title='Las  tierras altas de Escocia/ The Scottish Highlands'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFw_WhU549I/AAAAAAAAAYc/qIoBNcocI7c/s72-c/eilean+donan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7241391203979814861</id><published>2010-08-04T11:40:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-04T12:08:49.045+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cocina/Cuisine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Cupcakelicious/ Magdaliciosas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Pitusita y yo nos vamos de vez en cuando a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.harrods.com/harrodsstore/experience"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Harrods,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; la famosa tienda de Londres que se encuentra en Knightsbridge, en el barrio de Kensington y Chelsea. Este almacén que abrió sus puertas en 1824 ha caminado un largo trecho, ya que tuvo comienzos modestos vendiendo artículos de mercería, y ahora es toda una tienda de lujo que ha sido recientemente comprada por la familia real de Qatar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Pitusita y yo lo miramos todo como en un museo, y siempre vamos al piso de los juguetes, a ver las casas de muñecas en exhibición, o a jugar con los robots locos que siempre estan haciendo de las suyas cerca de los clientes. A Pitusita le impresionan las potentes voces de los sopranos y tenores que en directo ameniza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;n las compras, y la belleza de las escaleras egipcias, con sus densos ornamentos, pero siempre terminamos nuestro paseo con un recorrido por el “salón de la comida” , el super de la planta baja, con sus mostradores llenos de delicias de vainilla, zanahoria, chocolate, nata,.....sigo? Allí una vendedora vestida impecablemente con su uniforme verde y blanco, guantes y un sombrero de pajilla, nos ayuda en nuestra selección.  Y al pagar por la preciosa cajita, envuelta con tanto esmero, procedemos inmediatamente a romperlo todo, desgarrando el envoltorio con total frenesí,  ya que en ese momento solo existe lo sublime del placer de una magadalena - adivinaste?- que se va desbaratando solita en la boca.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.coloredhome.com/magdalenas/magdalenas.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Receta simple de magadalenas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFk4tvrX9dI/AAAAAAAAAW8/KnhoPBJMJ_0/s320/cupcake.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501490778353432018" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Photo from the web. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Pitusita and I escape from time to time to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.harrods.com/harrodsstore/experience"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Harrods&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;, the famous department store in Knightsbridge, London. The store opened in 1824 with a more humble beginning as a haberdashery, but now is an emblematic luxury store, recently bought by the Qatari royal family. We visit this place not as much for its sartorial choice, although very posh, but for something else hidden away in the food hall. We usually take a quick look at everything, like in a museum. Pitusita is particularly impressed with the live opera singers that entertain shoppers around the beautiful Egyptian escalators. We visit the children department with the many toys, dollhouses, and mischievous robots going in circles around clients....but always move on to more important ( and sweet?) matters on the ground floor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The many goodies waiting for us are made of vanilla, carrots, chocolate, cream....should I go on?....and there is always an impeccably dressed lady, attired with gloves and a hat, in a green and white uniform, to help us. As soon as we pay for the beautifully wrapped parcel that she hands us, we proceed to rip everything off as in a frenzy, to be able to taste the sublime pleasure of.....did you guess?...... a simple cupcake melting in our mouths.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Check out:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The store &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://viewer.zmags.co.uk/publication/2f5b93a9#/2f5b93a9/1"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;magazine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://uktv.co.uk/food/homepage/sid/7032"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Cupcake recipes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; to do at home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7241391203979814861?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7241391203979814861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/cupcakelicious-magdaliciosas.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7241391203979814861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7241391203979814861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/cupcakelicious-magdaliciosas.html' title='Cupcakelicious/ Magdaliciosas'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFk4tvrX9dI/AAAAAAAAAW8/KnhoPBJMJ_0/s72-c/cupcake.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1023849390565641993</id><published>2010-08-01T16:15:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T20:34:57.534+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Jardines de /KEW/ Gardens</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWSUblShQI/AAAAAAAAAW0/W7iLdh4VCTY/s1600/mariposa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWSUblShQI/AAAAAAAAAW0/W7iLdh4VCTY/s320/mariposa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500463399602128130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;    &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Un habitante del jardin/ An inhabitant of the gardens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKiwVfCVI/AAAAAAAAAWs/IjuNxfL86oc/s1600/lily.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKiwVfCVI/AAAAAAAAAWs/IjuNxfL86oc/s320/lily.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500454849598130514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;         &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Giant water lilies/ Nenúfar gigante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Last year &lt;a href="http://www.kew.org/"&gt;Kew Gardens&lt;/a&gt; turned 250 years old, but you would not tell by the way it looks. It is as fresh and new as a spring chicken. Its lawns are green, its trees healthy, its greenhouses neat and beautiful, and its exhibitions exciting. We saw the one called “butterflies, bugs and beasties”, and although a little spooked by the restlessness around us, we loved the colors and the miracle that comes out of funny looking grayish caterpillars nested in the corners of this royal garden.//&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKPKvvepI/AAAAAAAAAWk/w6815r9aNX0/s1600/DSC_0076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKPKvvepI/AAAAAAAAAWk/w6815r9aNX0/s320/DSC_0076.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500454513090198162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pagoda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKKKLak0I/AAAAAAAAAWc/QWA6h9IfjkQ/s1600/DSC_0058_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKKKLak0I/AAAAAAAAAWc/QWA6h9IfjkQ/s320/DSC_0058_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500454427038487362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;These are called mother-in-law cushions/ Los llamados cojines de las suegras&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKC2e2E8I/AAAAAAAAAWU/rItxFA6K2rM/s1600/DSC_0049_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKC2e2E8I/AAAAAAAAAWU/rItxFA6K2rM/s320/DSC_0049_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500454301492188098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMaomjhGoAc&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded#!"&gt;The palm house/ Invernadero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWKC2e2E8I/AAAAAAAAAWU/rItxFA6K2rM/s1600/DSC_0049_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWJ46xJxjI/AAAAAAAAAWM/7zJdHxRw9lc/s1600/DSC_0048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWJ46xJxjI/AAAAAAAAAWM/7zJdHxRw9lc/s320/DSC_0048.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500454130844026418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWJwZPWuiI/AAAAAAAAAWE/OfqbI3NNAeg/s1600/DSC_0027_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWJwZPWuiI/AAAAAAAAAWE/OfqbI3NNAeg/s320/DSC_0027_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500453984404945442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;El año pasado los &lt;a href="http://www.kew.org/"&gt;jardines reales de Kew&lt;/a&gt; cumplieron 250 años, pero se conservan tan bien que no hay quien diga que tienen tantos años. El verdor del cesped, los árboles saludables, y los invernaderos con exhibiciones que entusiasman, son testimonio de un esplendor juvenil. Nosotros visitamos una muestra de “bichos, mariposas y otros animalejos” que a decir verdad nos atemorizó un poquito con tanto revoloteo, pero que también nos hizo admirar el milagro de tanta belleza saliendo de mustias orugas adormecidas en algun rincón del jardín botánico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/explore-kew-gardens/index.htm"&gt;Click on the interactive map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWJQHKLp2I/AAAAAAAAAV8/-1b_Qq--52U/s1600/iguana.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWJQHKLp2I/AAAAAAAAAV8/-1b_Qq--52U/s320/iguana.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500453429795596130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1023849390565641993?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1023849390565641993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/jardines-de-kew-gardens.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1023849390565641993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1023849390565641993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/jardines-de-kew-gardens.html' title='Jardines de /KEW/ Gardens'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFWSUblShQI/AAAAAAAAAW0/W7iLdh4VCTY/s72-c/mariposa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-2529520723402901200</id><published>2010-07-28T18:00:00.016+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-09T15:37:35.454+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books and Films/Libros y Películas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France/ Francia'/><title type='text'>Tales from / Historias de: Paris &amp; NY</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;n the fall of 2002 BC, that is “Before Child”, I lived in Paris for a few months and loved it. I improved my French considerabl&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;y, went to museums, enjoyed long walks next to the Seine, and even longer chats with my many visitors over a cafe au lait and a croissant. I also spent countless lonely Sun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;days’ afternoons around &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLt4YZkyrPw&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Champs Elysées&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, because it was the only area that did not resemble a ghost town. But I always wondered what it would be like to live there with kids; What would this sophisticated city would offer to children? It is the same question I ask myself about New York, another cosmopolitan city that I have visited a couple of times, but never lived in. I have to acknowledge that in the midst of sirens, constr&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;uction, restoration, yellow cabs, fellow tourists, and so on, I felt that it was a city better suited for fun during the BC years. To answer these questions about life with children in these two cities , &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/adam_gopnik/search?contributorName=adam%20gopnik"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Adam Gopnik&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, a writer for the New Yorker, has written two books: The first one, Paris to the moon, is an account of the five years he spent with his infant son and his wife in Pa&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ris, where they also had a second child and where they not only enjoyed the beauty and culture of the city but also suffered the bureaucracy and other issues associated with expat life. The second book “Through the children’s gate: A home in NY” picks up after they left Paris and returned to New York, witnessing tragedy and the rebirth of the city. I love Gopnik’s storytelling and even have a place in my heart for Charlie Ravioli, his daughter’s imaginary friend, because Pitusita also happens to have an invisible friend that nobody else can see. Maybe you can get Gopnik’s books in your local library and enj&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;oy his tales of parenting in two great cities. In the meantime enjoy the photoblogs of two perfect strangers, about &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.parisdailyphoto.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Paris&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://interestingnyc.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;NYC&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;//&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFF_JFCThoI/AAAAAAAAAVk/-quvcd3CbVg/s1600/pandny.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFF_JFCThoI/AAAAAAAAAVk/-quvcd3CbVg/s200/pandny.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499316413943481986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_des_Cygnes"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Statue of Liberty  in íle des cygnes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;En el año &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;2002 AEC, es decir “antes de l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;a era de los chavales (o chicos)” , pasé unos meses en París en los que mejoré el francés considerablemente, visité museos, caminé por callejuelas  cercanas al Sena , y disfruté conversando frente a algún croissant o “cafe au lait” con amigos que aprovechaban mi estancia para visitarme.  Ese tiempo en la llamada ciudad del amor fue muy grato pero también solitario. Debo confesar que pasé muchas tardes de domingo teniendo como amiga solamente a la señora soledad, y usualmente me iba a la avenida de los &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAMuNfs89yE&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Campos Elysios&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; para encontrar a otros transeúntes deambulando por los comercios abiertos. En mi vagabundear por la ciudad a menudo me preguntaba como sería vivir allí con la familia. Y es que cuando uno piensa en ciudades cosmopolitas  casi siempre vienen a la mente París o Nueva York, y a los que ya tenemos hijos peque&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;ño&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;s, siempre nos queda la duda de cuan llevadera sería la vida con ellos. En Nueva York nunca he vivido, pero si visitado, y me ha parecido que la combinación de sirenas, luces, ruidos, construcción, y bares, está mejor destinada para los años AEC . Casi a la medida,  para responder a mis interrogantes, el escritor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/adam_gopnik/search?contributorName=adam%20gopnik"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Adam Gopnik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, columnista de la revista The New Yorker, ha escrito dos libros.   El primer libro, Paris to the moon, (Paris a la luna), es un recuento de los cinco años que pasó en París con su familia, rodeado de la belleza y cultura que ofrece la ciudad pero también de la burocracia y otros males que la aquejan. El segundo libro, “Through the children’s gate: A home in NY” (A través de la puerta de los niños en el parque central: Un hogar en NY), recoge sus vivencias una vez de vuelta en Nueva York, donde es testigo de la tragedia del 2001 y del renacer de la ciudad. A mí me gusta el estilo íntimo de Gopnik e incluso me siento cercana al personaje Charlie Ravioli, el amigo invisible de su hija, ya que Pitusita también tiene un amigo que solo puede ser visto por sus ojos. Si puedes lee sus historias, mientras tanto puedes disfrutar de estas dos bitácoras fotográficas de dos perfectos extraños que viven en &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://kevin-fernandes.com/blog/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;París&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; y en &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://a20minutos.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;NY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-2529520723402901200?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/2529520723402901200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/tales-from-historias-de-paris-ny.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2529520723402901200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2529520723402901200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/tales-from-historias-de-paris-ny.html' title='Tales from / Historias de: Paris &amp; NY'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TFF_JFCThoI/AAAAAAAAAVk/-quvcd3CbVg/s72-c/pandny.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-662730550838206881</id><published>2010-07-23T18:39:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T18:53:11.478+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Life in a day/ La vida en un dia</title><content type='html'>Ready, Steady....and......tomorrow YOU can make your own film, you have 24 hrs to record your &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;, and maybe part of it will make it all the way to the Sundance Film Festival. Check out what Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald propose, but hurry, you only have a few hours to get ready. Good Luck!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;En sus marcas, Listos, y.....manana TU puedes hacer tu propia película, pero solamente tienes 24 horas para filmar &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday"&gt;tu vida&lt;/a&gt;.  Y a lo mejor te veo en el festival de cine de Sundance en Enero del 2011. Mira lo que Ridley Scott y Kevin MacDonald proponen, pero ponte las pilas que solo tienes unas horas para prepararte. Te deseo mucha suerte!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Nota: Selecciona tu idioma pinchando el mapita del mundo arriba, a la izq.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-662730550838206881?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/662730550838206881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-in-day-la-vida-en-un-dia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/662730550838206881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/662730550838206881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-in-day-la-vida-en-un-dia.html' title='Life in a day/ La vida en un dia'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-5789564169871903627</id><published>2010-07-18T12:31:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T13:25:30.501+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><title type='text'>Goop??</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It has been already a few months that I have been receiving a newsletter via email from&lt;a href="http://www.goop.com/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goop.com/"&gt;GOOP&lt;/a&gt;, a lifestyle website created by the Oscar-winner actress Gwyneth Paltrow where tips about cooking, living, children, cities, and other topics are offered. I particularly like the GO section, where GP (She signs everything with her initials) and her team dish out the most memorable things to do in different cities. I also liked their recommendations for children's books because the truth is that I am always searching for something original for Pitusita. The newsletter is free and she says she does it without taking commission, and while some might feel a bit cynical about her motives,  I always like it when I can get another point of view. You can take a look at her website, which is in English and Spanish, or sign up to receive the newsletter directly to your email account&lt;br /&gt;Chao for now, Pitusa//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya hace meses que recibo la cartica virtual de &lt;a href="http://goop.com/"&gt;GOOP&lt;/a&gt;, un sitio web creado por la actriz Gwyneth Paltrow, conocida por haber ganado un Oscar a la mejor actriz. En &lt;a href="http://goop.com/"&gt;GOOP&lt;/a&gt; ella y su equipo dan consejos en cuanto a mejorar el estilo de vida, ir de compras, cocinar, el cuidado de los ninos, etc. A mi me gustan sobre todo los articulos bajo la seccion IR, donde se recomiendan lugares y actividades en diferentes ciudades como San Francisco o Los Angeles. Tambien disfrute mucho de las recomendaciones de libros para ninos, pues me la paso buscando buenos libros para Pitusita.  Los boletines a la cuenta de correo electronico son gratis, y GP, quien siempre termina firmando con sus iniciales, ha dicho que no recibe comisiones por sus sugerencias. Asi que aunque muchos pudieran ser un poco cinicos al pensar acerca de sus motivos, yo disfruto al tener a mano otros puntos de vista. Puedes llegarte al sitio o apuntarte a recibir sus boletines directamente a tu cuenta. Todo es en ingles y espanol y ya saben cuanto me gusta cuando la informacion es bilingue. Chao por ahora, Pitusa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-5789564169871903627?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/5789564169871903627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/goop.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5789564169871903627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5789564169871903627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/goop.html' title='Goop??'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-8101028005525468683</id><published>2010-07-13T16:04:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T18:00:37.734+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Global Nomads// Nomadas Globales</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If you have been reading this blog then you might have noticed that most entries have to do with trying to aid a kid, Pitusita, to take the best out of all the different cultures that surround us. Our family is composed of what is called "global nomads"  and Pitusita is not only a a third culture kid, but also a cross-cultural kid. According to the mighty wikipedia, the term tck refers to "someone who, as a child, has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his/her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth culture, into a third culture." The term was coined by the American sociologist and anthropologist Dr. Ruth Hill Useem, and initially it included children of missionaries and military personnel posted abroad. Now it encompasses a bigger pool that includes children of diplomats, businessmen, engineers and so on. I think that there is no better time to be a tck than now. We  live in a globalized world, there is internet, neighborhood restaurants offering different types of cuisines, international film festivals in our cities, and so on. I guess we have all become global nomads, at least a little bit. We travel, we read foreign books, sometimes even in the original language. We start the day with American pancakes for breakfast, have sushi for lunch, and might finish the evening with Mexican burritos. The planet has truly become a global village. But I also think that to be a tck brings its own challenges such as a sort of restlessness and issues with identity, after all childhood experiences are paramount in the development of an individual's personality.&lt;br /&gt;If you want to know more about raising tcks I suggest you check the site &lt;a href="http://www.tckworld.com/"&gt;www.tckworld.com&lt;/a&gt;. You can also get the book TCKs authored by Pollock and Van Reken.//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TD3W_BdaZdI/AAAAAAAAAVc/0lPmAsIlHlY/s1600/worldmagnets.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 128px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TD3W_BdaZdI/AAAAAAAAAVc/0lPmAsIlHlY/s200/worldmagnets.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493783498673776082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                                                                                                                          &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;                  Souvenir Magnets &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si eres asiduo a este blog, seguro ya te habrás dado cuenta de que las entradas usualmente se refieren a como podemos disfrutar de otras culturas y todo lo que nos rodea. Y lo hago porque  nuestra familia esta compuesta de nómadas globales, y Pitusita  ya va formando su  propia tercera cultura. Ella es lo que en inglés  llaman "third culture kid" o también "cross-culture kid". El termino TCK fue acuñado por la antropóloga y sociologa Dr. Ruth Hill Useem. Inicialmente se refería sobre todo a los hijos de misionarios y de personal militar en otros países. Ahora se le suman otros grupos como los hijos de diplomáticos, de personas de negocios, ingenieros en proyectos internacionales, étc.  Creo que nunca ha habido un mejor momento para ser un nómada global. Tenemos la internet, restaurantes de cada rincón del mundo y en nuestro propio barrio, viajamos a menudo de vacaciones, hasta a veces leemos libros en su idioma original, disfrutamos de festivales internacionales de cine, tenemos cable en casa, desayunamos panqueques americanos con sirope, y comemos burritos mexicanos o sushi japones, la lista es larga,. Estamos mucho mas interconectados y tenemos el privilegio de interactuar con otras culturas, lo que nos hace un poquito nómadas. El planeta es hoy en día una aldea global. Pero  ser un nómada global trae consigo importantes desafíos, sobre todo en lo concerniente a la identidad, ya que las experiencias en la niñez son muy importantes para el desarrollo de la personalidad del individuo. Si quieres saber mas acerca de los tck visita &lt;a href="http://www.tckworld.com/"&gt;www.tckworld.com&lt;/a&gt; o busca el libro escrito por Pollock y Van Reken, aunque no sé si estará traducido al español.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-8101028005525468683?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/8101028005525468683/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/global-nomads-nomadas-globales.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8101028005525468683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8101028005525468683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/global-nomads-nomadas-globales.html' title='Global Nomads// Nomadas Globales'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TD3W_BdaZdI/AAAAAAAAAVc/0lPmAsIlHlY/s72-c/worldmagnets.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3697302921596120546</id><published>2010-07-10T22:21:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-13T16:09:15.883+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>The Cup/ La Copa</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"  &gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fifa.com/index.html?language=en"&gt;world cup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"  &gt; is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world. There is a sense of pride and belonging that includes almost everyone. That is why you can find an Uruguayan fan cheering his national team but also cheering for Spain on the finals due to the fact they speak the same language, or you can find an English fan rooting for Holland because of no other reason than being European, or  a Polish fan that simply enjoys the art of football (or soccer) and picks the German team as his favourite. This year the world cup has taken place in &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBD9h0jUq3w"&gt;Africa&lt;/a&gt; for the very first time. The first cup took place in 1930 and 80 years later we are still as enthusiastic about it or even more. Children from all over the world dream about football, they relate to the players, and aspire to be like them, and during the world cup years, the world stands still for a moment and rejoices. Sometimes I have to admit that I wonder why there is so much passion associated to football.  If an alien would choose to land on Johannesburg today, he would probably be asking himself:  What is the big deal with these humans kicking that ball?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.fifa.com/index.html?language=es"&gt;La copa del mundo&lt;/a&gt; es el evento deportivo más visto. Todos nos sentimos orgullosos y con un gran sentido patriótico, es por eso que por ejemplo, un uruguayo alienta a su equipo desde las gradas en los semi-finales. Pero nuestra afición trasciende naciones y alentamos a aquellos equipos que juegan bien, sean de España, Alemania, Holanda o cualquier otro país.  Este año la copa ha tenido lugar en el &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXUr4rh2LRE"&gt;continente africano&lt;/a&gt; por primera vez. Y aunque estos torneos comenzaron en 1930, 80 años después seguimos tan entusiasmados o quizás más.  Los niños de todo el mundo vibran, a veces hasta más que los adultos, con cada jugada. Ellos aspiran a ser como muchos de estos jugadores famosos y el mundo se para unido, al menos por el corto tiempo que dura la copa. Así y todo a veces me parece increíble toda la pasión que el fútbol trae consigo. Si un extraterrestre aterrizara esta tarde en Johannesburgo se preguntaría: ?Y que hacen estos humanos pateando esa pelota?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"&gt;Update: Netherlands 0 vs Spain 1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"&gt;Spain is the &lt;a href="http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100713/viva-espana/827736.shtml"&gt;World Cup Champion&lt;/a&gt;, for the first time ever!!!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3697302921596120546?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3697302921596120546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/cup-la-copa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3697302921596120546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3697302921596120546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/cup-la-copa.html' title='The Cup/ La Copa'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6300935023850286784</id><published>2010-07-07T20:49:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-09T18:16:42.116+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bliss or misery?</title><content type='html'>This is an article on the New York Magazine on parenting in North America, written by Jennifer Seniors and titled "&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/?imw=Y&amp;amp;f=most-viewed-24h10"&gt;All joy and no fun&lt;/a&gt;". She talks about the decision concerning having children or not and what it means in contemporary society for our happiness. I found the studies quite interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TDdLSJkoG3I/AAAAAAAAAVU/XTQ486MtEbg/s1600/bottle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TDdLSJkoG3I/AAAAAAAAAVU/XTQ486MtEbg/s200/bottle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491941045780880242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aqui esta un articulo de la New York Magazine escrito por Jennifer Senior acerca de cuan felices o miserables la decision de tener hijos hace a los individuos en la sociedad contemporanea de Estados Unidos. El articulo esta en ingles y se llama "&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/?imw=Y&amp;amp;f=most-viewed-24h10"&gt;All joy and no fun&lt;/a&gt;". Es interesante ver los resultados de los estudios hechos al respecto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6300935023850286784?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6300935023850286784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/bliss-or-misery.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6300935023850286784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6300935023850286784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/bliss-or-misery.html' title='Bliss or misery?'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TDdLSJkoG3I/AAAAAAAAAVU/XTQ486MtEbg/s72-c/bottle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7673607026475356936</id><published>2010-07-06T17:40:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T12:00:15.232+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canada'/><title type='text'>The cottage/ La casa de campo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Una de las cosas que me encantaba cuando viviamos en Canada era el tratamiento casi religioso que la gente le daba a los fines de semana. Depues de haberse pasado de lunes a viernes trabajando en la ciudad y viajando entre atascos, llegaba el viernes, todos se deseaban un buen fin de semana y se iban a la casa de campo de la familia o de los amigos. Se veia el deseo palpable de dejar la ciudad y el trabajo detras para encontrar un oasis de dos dias en medio del desierto semanal. En Ontario es la region de &lt;a href="http://www.discovermuskoka.ca/"&gt;Muskoka&lt;/a&gt; la que casi siempre se convierte en el patio trasero de ciudades como Toronto, y en Quebec &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;son las regiones de &lt;a href="http://www.lanaudiere.ca/"&gt;Lanaudiere&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://www.laurentides.com/"&gt;Laurentides&lt;/a&gt; las que contribuyen al disfrute de los habitantes de Montreal. La asiduidad a la casa de campo existe sin miramientos de estaciones o cambios de tiempo. En el verano, por ejemplo, se hacen asados, se juega badminton o se hace un partido de voleibol con alguna red improvisada de por medio, los ninos y no tan ninos chapotean en las piscinas, alguien se va de paseo con los perros, de senderismo por el bosque, muchos van a las cascadas, otros aprovechan una lectura ligera, o  disfrutan de los lagos con canoas y lanchas. Las actividades cambian durante el largo invierno que usualmente dura 7 meses, y donde la temperatura puede alcanzar -35 grados. En ese tiempo se disfruta esquiando, la nieve es la escenografia adecuada para divertirse&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; sin pensar en palearla. Los centros de masaje y bienestar como &lt;a href="http://www.lasourcespa.com/"&gt;La Source&lt;/a&gt; en Lanaudiere compensan un poco la falta de luz solar, las comidas junto a la chimenea con una copa de vino y en ambiente acogedor hacen olvidar cualquier dolor y el fin de semana se convierte en el antidoto perfecto contra la depresion. La casa de campo es donde se cultivan las mas estrechas relaciones humanas, y el viaje de regreso a la ciudad el domingo en la noche aunque a veces duro, se mitiga al saber que despues del lunes llega el martes y luego el miercoles y asi eventualmente otro buen fin de semana y sus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; momentos de felicidad.//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TDdJYmHzXKI/AAAAAAAAAVM/ZFyyohx1ZMQ/s1600/cottage.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 116px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TDdJYmHzXKI/AAAAAAAAAVM/ZFyyohx1ZMQ/s200/cottage.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491938957500570786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the things I loved the most about living in Canada &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;was the almost sacred treatment everyone gave to their weekends, when a retreat to the family cottage was the thing to do.  After having spent Monday through Friday working long hours in busy cities such as Montreal or Toronto, and commuting through perpetual traffic jams, everyone wishes everyone else a cheerful happy weekend and simply disappears. They cannot wait to leave the work site, the neighborhood, and the city behind. At least for those two days, Saturday and Sunday, the time at the cottage  becomes an oasis in the desert of work’s burdens. In Ontario the &lt;a href="http://www.discovermuskoka.ca/"&gt;Muskoka region&lt;/a&gt;, and in Quebec, the &lt;a href="http://www.laurentians.com/"&gt;Laurentians&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.lanaudiere.ca/"&gt;Lanaudiere&lt;/a&gt; regions, become the backyard of urban Toronto and Montreal respectively. Regardless of the season everyone expects a weekend of fun. During the summer there are bbqs, volleyball and badminton games over improvised nets, pool time for the kids and the not so young, hikes on the nearby forests, walks with the dogs, boating on the many lakes, lazy summer reading, jumping from the rocks on the rapids or waterfalls. In the long winter season, which usually lasts 7 months or more and can reach temperatures as low as -35 Celsius, weekends in the cottage become the antidote to depression. Cross-country skiing right outside the door and ski alpine in ski centers make out of the meters of snow that pile up day after day, an excuse for fun, instead of just shoveling. Spa sessions in nearby wellness centers such as &lt;a href="http://www.lasourcespa.com/"&gt;La source&lt;/a&gt; in Lanaudiere, relax muscles and minds. Nice dinners in front of the fire place with a nice glass of red wine take aches away. The cottage indulges us with what we treasure most, quality time with family and friends, good food and fun, fresh air and exercise in both scorching heat or frozen temperatures. The rides back to the city on Sunday evenings mitigate the dread of very early work on Mondays, because everyone knows that usually after Mondays we have Tuesdays, then Wednesdays....and eventually the driving to the cottage will arrive as well and everyone will wish again a cheerful happy weekend to everyone else and simply....take off to the cottage.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7673607026475356936?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7673607026475356936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/cottage-la-casa-de-campo.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7673607026475356936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7673607026475356936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/cottage-la-casa-de-campo.html' title='The cottage/ La casa de campo'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TDdJYmHzXKI/AAAAAAAAAVM/ZFyyohx1ZMQ/s72-c/cottage.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1987352828570812434</id><published>2010-07-01T16:53:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T17:43:41.529+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><title type='text'>Las botas de agua/ Wellington boots</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TCy3bJUoULI/AAAAAAAAAVE/QMBk8W14LU0/s1600/corazoncito2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 117px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TCy3bJUoULI/AAAAAAAAAVE/QMBk8W14LU0/s200/corazoncito2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488963722844590258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A veces, aunque sea verano, me despierto oyendo las gotas de lluvia que salpican en las tejas del techo. Y a media manana despues del cafe con leche y de algun quehacer tachado de mi lista del dia, vuelvo a mirar a traves de la ventana para descubrir casi siempre charcos que reflejan un cielo despejado. En ese instante es cuando el disfrute es verdadero. Entre el fango, el agua, el cesped y las plantas del patio, Pitusita aparece engalanada con botas de agua de &lt;a href="http://www.cathkidston.co.uk/"&gt;Cath Kids&lt;/a&gt;, cubiertas de florecitas lilas y rosadas, pero inmediatamente esos colores se mezclan con el lodazal  y todo se reduce a brincar, salpicar, y tambien ensuciar.....las botas son algo mas que el calzado de la lluvia y el campo, se convierten en la fiesta del barro que huele a recomienzo.//&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, even during the summer months, I awake to the sound of raindrops falling on the roof tiles, and after having done some chores from my daily errand list and a well earned cafe latte, I usually take a moment to look through the window to check on the weather. Maybe I would see only puddles reflecting the clean sky above. The fun would begin right there an then when Pitusita would put on her&lt;a href="http://www.cathkidston.co.uk/"&gt; Cath Kids&lt;/a&gt; wellies which are full of little violet and pink flowers. They would inmediately disappear under the mud, water, grass and dirt accumulated on the backyard. The moment would be suspended, with only place for jumping and splashing. The wellies then become more than simple footwear in the country, they give way to that feeling one gets after spring cleaning, to that simple smell of beginnings.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1987352828570812434?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1987352828570812434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/las-botas-de-agua-wellington-boots.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1987352828570812434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1987352828570812434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/las-botas-de-agua-wellington-boots.html' title='Las botas de agua/ Wellington boots'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TCy3bJUoULI/AAAAAAAAAVE/QMBk8W14LU0/s72-c/corazoncito2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-604355048943531403</id><published>2010-06-21T15:39:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T17:48:25.042+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>London's parks &amp; museums // Los parques y museos de Londres</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=";font-family:Helvetica,serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La vida en Londres es hiper- rápida. La ciudad está llena de gente que con velocidad al andar, tiene dibujado en su rostro la anticipación, el propósito de cumplir una tarea, el afán de estar con alguna persona en su hora puntual. Gente que va y viene entre altavoces que identifican destinos, entre luces amarillas y rojas de autobuses altos y estrechos, entre un tráfico que a pesar de ser cobrado siempre nos da la oportunidad para contaminarnos más, o el privilegio de encontrarnos encerrados en pequeñas escafandras de cuatro ruedas, en una lenta y densa procesión por avenidas victorianas y georgianas. Pero Londres tambien tiene joyas que hacen de la infancia un encanto. De todas ellas hay dos, los &lt;a href="http://londres.viajandopor.com/parques/index.php"&gt;parques&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://www.guia-londres.com/museos-londres/"&gt;museos&lt;/a&gt;, que por ser libres, gratuitos, son doblemente agradecidas. El museo británico, el museo de historia natural, el museo de ciencias, el museo de la niñez, los dos Tates, el museo Victoria y Alberto, y tantos otros, simplemente no tienen comparación. Por su parte, los parques como el Hyde Park, el Regent's Park, el parque de Battersea, Clapham Common, o Wandsworth Common, sacan de lo profundo de nuestra cotidianidad, lo extraordinario. Y así nos encontramos un día cualquiera, Pitusita y yo,  disfrutando del parquecito del barco del pirata en Hyde Park (Diana memorial Playground), dándole de comer un trozo de pan viejo a los cisnes, corriendo sobre las hojas caídas que crujen bajo las suelas, apurándonos frente a semáforos tricolores, para llegar a tiempo al museo de ciencias y ver una vez más  una copia del " águila" que llevó a los cosmonautas a la luna. Porque Londres hace eso, te puede llevar a la luna en una tarde, sin darte cuenta.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timeout.com/london/"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; is super fast! The city is full of people that go about with a purpose, with a speedy walk, with faces where work, tasks and punctuality are written all over. People that move through  train stations listening to speakers announcing destinations, or wait for the tall, red and narrow buses that fill up the width of the street, or roll through Georgian and Victorian avenues in their diving bells, in a long and slow procession that always pollutes and makes us pay in more than one way. But London is not only that, it also offers jewels to the richness of childhood. Two of those treasures are the &lt;a href="http://www.londonnet.co.uk/ln/guide/about/museums.html"&gt;museums&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/outdoors/"&gt;parks&lt;/a&gt;, which are free of charge and therefore even more gratifying. The British Museum, The Science Museum, The Natural History Museum, The Museum of Childhood, the two Tates, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and so many others are absolutely delightful. Parks such as Hyde Park with its lovely Serpentine, Battersea Park and Regent's Park with their zoos, and Commons such as Clapham and Wandsworth,  are all worth a visit. That is why on any given day Pitusita and I  find ourselves wandering around the Pirate ship in Hyde Park ( The Diana Memorial Playground), feeding stale bread to the swans, running and crushing fallen leaves, hurrying to cross green lights, and entering the Science museum just before it closes to be able to catch another glance of the Eagle, a replica of the lander that took the astronauts to the moon. Because London can do that to you, it might lead you to the moon in a wink.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-604355048943531403?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/604355048943531403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/londons-parks-museums-los-parques-y.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/604355048943531403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/604355048943531403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/londons-parks-museums-los-parques-y.html' title='London&apos;s parks &amp; museums // Los parques y museos de Londres'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-4090592448140258190</id><published>2010-06-02T16:58:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-05T18:39:01.170+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cuba'/><title type='text'>Havana Cultura</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp7brQgmsI/AAAAAAAAAU0/bfl3bf09s1s/s1600/hbmorro.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 88px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp7brQgmsI/AAAAAAAAAU0/bfl3bf09s1s/s200/hbmorro.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479327612048284354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La Habana: Musa de tantos, lugar de leyendas y encuentros fortuitos, objeto de deseo de corsarios y piratas que han sido antiguos, anticuados, modernos o modernistas. Es una ciudad de acuerdos y desencuentros, que palpita y se desboca.....&lt;div&gt;La revista &lt;a href="http://www.havana-cultura.com/"&gt;Habana Cultura&lt;/a&gt; te invita a abrir las persianas y airear tu casa con la creatividad que emana de las calles habaneras.&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0in;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1  {size:8.5in 11.0in;  margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;  mso-header-margin:.5in;  mso-footer-margin:.5in;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; Podrás &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;u1:worddocument&gt;   &lt;u1:view&gt;Normal&lt;/u1:View&gt;   &lt;u1:zoom&gt;0&lt;/u1:Zoom&gt;   &lt;u1:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;u1:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;u1:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/u1:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;u1:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/u1:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;u1:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/u1:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;u1:compatibility&gt;    &lt;u1:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;u1:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;u1:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;u1:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;u1:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/u1:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;u1:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/u1:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/u1:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;u2:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/u2:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;u3:worddocument&gt;   &lt;u3:view&gt;Normal&lt;/u3:View&gt;   &lt;u3:zoom&gt;0&lt;/u3:Zoom&gt;   &lt;u3:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;u3:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;u3:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/u3:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;u3:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/u3:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;u3:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/u3:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;u3:compatibility&gt;    &lt;u3:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;u3:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;u3:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;u3:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;u3:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/u3:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;u3:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/u3:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/u3:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;u4:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/u4:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;sentir la nostalgia del jazz afrocubano, ver los vitrales de una arquitectura urbana de otra época, o las imágenes evocadas por una novela de ficción, superada a veces en lo absurdo, por la realidad que representa.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp67Gdm_9I/AAAAAAAAAUk/ZS9QVN9bniA/s1600/hb+vieja.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp67Gdm_9I/AAAAAAAAAUk/ZS9QVN9bniA/s200/hb+vieja.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479327052415303634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Havana: A muse for some,  a legend for others, but a serendipitous  place for most. An object of desire of pirates and corsairs, who have been ancient and outdated, modern and modernist, and at times all of the above. It is a city of encounters and disagreements, that beats and runs wild....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.havana-cultura.com/"&gt;Havana-Cultura Magazine&lt;/a&gt; invites you to open the shutters and take a peek at the creativity that arises from the streets. You can feel the nostalgic mood of Afro-Cuban jazz, see the stained glasses in old windows that represent the urban architecture of another century, or you can invent your own novel, thanks to a literature that is often less absurd than the reality it tries to evoke.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp6ydlpXhI/AAAAAAAAAUc/cAlDfukp-KM/s1600/centro+hb.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp6ydlpXhI/AAAAAAAAAUc/cAlDfukp-KM/s200/centro+hb.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479326904004206098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Note: Havana-Cultura Magazine is sponsored by Havana Club.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.havana-cultura.com/"&gt;www.havana-cultura.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-4090592448140258190?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/4090592448140258190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/havana-cultura.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4090592448140258190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4090592448140258190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/havana-cultura.html' title='Havana Cultura'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp7brQgmsI/AAAAAAAAAU0/bfl3bf09s1s/s72-c/hbmorro.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-566086198703647587</id><published>2010-05-31T17:46:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T17:54:59.330+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Happiness/ La Felicidad</title><content type='html'>I always wondered why travelling made me so happy. Why being transported to another place with its own microcosms, own culture, and even weather, made my sense of well being increase. Many times the answer was quite obvious, such as that instance when I took a plane in a gray and snowy Warsaw that landed several hours later, in sunny Bonaire. There is nothing like that gust of hot air that greets you, while the flight attendant lets you know that a blue sky awaits you, and that it is 35 degree Celsius, while back in Poland, yeap, it is still -20. Your happiness thermometer rises proportionally to the local temperature: I was indeed 55 degrees happier. But what about those other trips when it is 11 pm and you have not found your hotel yet, and you are tired, jet-lagged but still sort of happy  and excited about the holiday ahead? What could you possibly be happy about? Recently, I have been reading about&lt;a href="http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/index.html"&gt; positive psychology&lt;/a&gt; and I have learned that there are three constituents of happiness (Seligman, 2002): They are Pleasure, Engagement and Meaning. Pleasure occurs.....well you know, but anyways...when you experience positive emotions such as joy and gratitude, you focus on the present and are mindful, and you are full of hope and optimism; Engagement when you are so focused on a task that time passes and you do not even realize it, you experience "flow" and gratification, regardless of pain and pleasure; and Meaning is experienced when the focus is something larger than the self, such as family, goodness, justice and so on.  This triad helped me understand why even if I spend 18 hours on a plane, or  have no clue what the customer officer is telling me in his own language, and I am 5000 miles away from home, I can still feel happy when travelling. We are still hopeful, mindful, in flow and definitely engaged, and we all want our family to have a good time and experience other cultures which could give us a sense of meaning, and once we manage to see that monument, that museum, or taste that dish, it really feels gratifying and we become just marathon runners that despite all obstacles manage to pass the finish line, and feel it was all worthy./&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp-9Hl61gI/AAAAAAAAAU8/wEQu_ufEUf0/s1600/happytraveller.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp-9Hl61gI/AAAAAAAAAU8/wEQu_ufEUf0/s200/happytraveller.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479331485124843010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada vez que viajo me pregunto: Por que  el viajar me hace tan feliz? Por que el irme a otro lugar con una cultura diferente, y a veces un clima diferente, otro microcosmos, hace que mi sentido del bienestar crezca? Muchas veces la respuesta es obvia, como aquella vez que tome un avion en una fria Varsovia, y aterrice horas despues en la soleada isla de Bonaire. No hay nada como sentir esa rafaga de aire calido cuando se abre la puerta del avion, y la azafata anuncia que los cielos estan despejados y hay 35 grados celcius, mientras que en Polonia aun tienen -20 grados. En ese instante el termometro de mi felicidad sube los 55 grados de diferencia a velocidad de la luz. Pero como ser feliz si son las 11 de la noche, uno esta cansado, perdido,con la diferencia de horas a cuestas y aun no encuentra un hotel donde pasar la noche?  En estos dias he estado leyendo acerca de la &lt;a href="http://psicologia-positiva.com/noticias.html"&gt;psicologia positiva&lt;/a&gt;. Seligman (2002) dice que hay tres rutas para el bienestar. Ellas son el placer, el involucrarse de lleno para lograr una experiencia optima, y el tener un proposito o significado mayor.&lt;br /&gt;El placer ocurre.... bueno todos lo sabemos, pero igual....cuando sentimos emociones positivas como la alegria, el agradecimiento o  la esperanza;  una experiencia optima ocurre cuando nos metemos de lleno, nos consagramos a algo que simplemente fluye, las horas pasan sin darnos cuenta, usamos nuestros puntos fuertes y encontramos la experiencia gratificante; y finalmente encontramos significado cuando nos entregamos a algo mas que a nosotros mismos, que tenga que ver por ejemplo con la comunidad, o nuestra familia, el servicio social, la justicia, y es diferente para cada individuo. Este trio que nos guia en la busqueda de la felicidad me ha ayudado a entender las razones por las cuales aunque uno haya pasado 18 horas en un avion, este a 5000 millas de casa y no comprenda al oficial de aduana con su idioma, aun sigue viajando. Viajar nos  llena de optimismo, nos hace concentrarnos, nos invita a la experiencia optima y a saborear el presente. Encontramos significado, por ejemplo, cuando queremos que nuestra familia la pase bien y aprenda, incrementando su acerbo cultural y una vez que probamos una rica comida oriunda del lugar, o vemos aquel monumento, o visitamos aquel museo, nos sentimos como maratonistas que  finalmente han llegado a la meta y aunque cansados, estamos dispuestos a repetir la experiencia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-566086198703647587?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/566086198703647587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-felicidad-happiness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/566086198703647587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/566086198703647587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-felicidad-happiness.html' title='Happiness/ La Felicidad'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/TAp-9Hl61gI/AAAAAAAAAU8/wEQu_ufEUf0/s72-c/happytraveller.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6943714493304543993</id><published>2010-05-25T14:44:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T17:07:25.884+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>The beach/ La playa</title><content type='html'>Last weekend we did the unthinkable: We went to the beach! You might think that it is not such a big deal, since after all we do live in an island.... but did I ever mention that we actually live in the gloomy UK, where it rains most of the time and life can look exactly like one of these old silent movies in black and white? Did I also mention that I was born in the tropics where the warm waves from the Caribbean sea caress the scalding sandy shores of my island? There the beaches are truly technicolor, and 3d, better than Avatar, believe you me! Well, let's make it 4d because there is also the time dimension that becomes circular, magical, the eternal now. There you only need to take a plastic bottle, fill it with bread crumbs, jump on the sea and feed the fish for hours and hours. You will see all the colors of the rainbow, anemones, and corals, the water is that clear.....You get the picture? My bar is sooooo high when it comes to the beach that going to any other beach always pales in comparison, but Pitusita is really into sand castles and splashing, so putting my issues aside, off we went to &lt;a href="http://www.jurassiccoast.com/"&gt;the Jurassic Coast&lt;/a&gt;, to Dorset, in the south of the UK, and let me tell you the water was cold, very,very cold, but the beauty was incredible, the Durdle door was majestic, and more importantly, my Pitusita did not care a little tiny bit about pebbles or water temperature. Her laugh sounded better that the sea waves, there is no better sound in the entire world, not even in the Caribbean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S_vnV0U2LEI/AAAAAAAAAUU/ZPjzlmXlAy0/s1600/Durdle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S_vnV0U2LEI/AAAAAAAAAUU/ZPjzlmXlAy0/s200/Durdle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475224134008319042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;El fin de semana pasado hicimos lo impensable: Nos fuimos a la playa. Pensaras que no es algo tan descabellado, despues de todo vivimos en una isla grande, pero.....?Acaso he mencionado que es en el Reino Unido, donde la mayoria de los dias son lluviosos y se parecen a esas comedias silentes y en blanco y negro? ?He comentado alguna vez que naci en el tropico, donde las olas del mar Caribe acarician las calidas arenas de mi  isla? Alli las playas son en technicolor y en 3d, la experiencia es mejor que Avatar,  pongamosle mejor 4d pues esta la dimension del tiempo que se convierte en circular, espiral, magica. Solo necesitas una botellita plastica donde echar migajas de pan, y luego te zambulles y das de comer a los peces, que son abundantes, coloridos como el arcoiris, y que te rodean junto a anemonas y corales, y asi te la pasas en grande y ni cuenta te das de las horas que vuelan...?Te das cuenta de lo que es la experiencia en si? Por eso mis expectativas son tan altas que ninguna otra playa se compara, pero Pitusita esta encantada con castillos de arena y el salpicar del agua, asi que nos fuimos al sur, a Dorset,&lt;a href="http://www.jurassiccoast.com/"&gt; la costa Jurasica&lt;/a&gt;. Y que contar? El agua estaba fria, helada, congelada, pero la belleza es increible. Es el mar al fin y al cabo, la puerta de Durdle es majestuosa, y mi Pitusita disfrutaba y reia, y esa risa suena mucho mejor que las olas de cualquier parte, incluso que las del Caribe. Por eso este fin de semana nos fuimos a la playa, hicimos lo impensable.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6943714493304543993?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6943714493304543993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/beach-la-playa.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6943714493304543993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6943714493304543993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/beach-la-playa.html' title='The beach/ La playa'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S_vnV0U2LEI/AAAAAAAAAUU/ZPjzlmXlAy0/s72-c/Durdle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-4055938886550036858</id><published>2010-05-09T21:39:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T21:59:28.650+02:00</updated><title type='text'>To my daughter</title><content type='html'>Feliz dia de las Madres! Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there who care for children, be it biological moms, grandmothers, adoptive moms.....I think our best gift is to see our children healthy, having fun, curious, fulfilled, and full of the love we give them, because for us is more important to give than to receive. I would like to suggest a book by Maya Angelou called &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Letter to My Daughter&lt;/span&gt;, and instead of thinking about the presents we give or receive, maybe we can get this book to share, to read together. Here is a review. Enjoy this day.....and the ones to come. Love, Pitusa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/letterdaughter.shtml"&gt;http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/letterdaughter.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-4055938886550036858?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/4055938886550036858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-my-daughter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4055938886550036858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4055938886550036858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-my-daughter.html' title='To my daughter'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1306681434869746748</id><published>2010-04-26T11:41:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:37:27.834+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Eyjafjallajokull</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Last week the skies of Europe were silent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The eruption of the  Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, (Am I spelling it right?) grounded all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;flights for 6 days and millions of people found themselves stranded, even the UK government sent its navy fleet to bring British passengers home. I can only imagine how stressful the situation would have been for families with small children. Here are some tips about travelling with children, tips that are great to use in any trip, but even more when an Icelandic ash cloud decides to travel solo around Europe and you simply cannot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Click on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flyingwithkids.com/travel_tips.htm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;http://www.flyingwithkids.com/travel_tips.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Durante la semana anterior los cielos europeos enmudecieron. La erupción del volcán impronunciable, Eyjafjallajokull, en Islandia, hizo que todos los vuelos fueran suspendidos por 6 días. Millones de personas se encontraron sin saber que hacer, incluso el Reino Unido envió su flota naval a buscar a pasajeros británicos que deseaban volver a casa y que simplemente no tenían otro modo de hacerlo. Solo puedo imaginar el estrés añadido que sufrieron aquellos que viajaban con niños.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Aquí les dejo los consejos que la Academia Americana de Pediatría brinda para viajar con los pequeños. Consejos que son habitualmente útiles, pero que lo son especialmente  cuando una nube de ceniza decide irse de viaje por Europa solita, y deja al resto sin poder viajar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Pinche en el enlace &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/traveltipsspanish.pdf"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/traveltipsspanish.pdf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1306681434869746748?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1306681434869746748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/eyjafjallajokull.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1306681434869746748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1306681434869746748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/eyjafjallajokull.html' title='Eyjafjallajokull'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-875238251268230576</id><published>2010-04-16T16:57:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T17:03:36.296+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ecuador'/><title type='text'>Cuicocha</title><content type='html'>There is a lake in Ecuador called Cuicocha, formed in the crater of a volcano. Take a tour with this great artist called Carlos R. Duenas// Hay un lago en Ecuador llamado Cuicocha, en el cráter del volcán Cotacachi. El realizador Carlos R. Duenas te lo muestra en este clip.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://cinefotografiando.blogspot.com/2010/04/cuicocha.html"&gt; http://cinefotografiando.blogspot.com/2010/04/cuicocha.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-875238251268230576?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/875238251268230576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/cuicocha.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/875238251268230576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/875238251268230576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/cuicocha.html' title='Cuicocha'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-5852730024320247036</id><published>2010-04-15T23:42:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T23:48:39.024+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Babies</title><content type='html'>A look at the milestones all babies go through in Namibia, Japan, US and Mongolia.&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/babies/"&gt;http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/babies/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-5852730024320247036?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/5852730024320247036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/babies.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5852730024320247036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5852730024320247036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/babies.html' title='Babies'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-2815728523614771500</id><published>2010-04-12T13:01:00.030+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T12:25:55.425+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Oxford</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La &lt;a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/"&gt;Universidad de Oxford&lt;/a&gt; es la mas antigua en el mundo de habla inglesa, y en la esfera academica es como si se tratara de las grandes ligas del beisbol. Forma parte de esa lista de vacas sagradas que incluye a Harvard en los Estados Unidos, o a Cambridge en el mismo Reino Unido. Esta ultima es tambien un fuerte rival, y no solo en la carrera de remos, ya que al fin y al cabo Cambridge fue fundada por academicos que abandonaron Oxford alla por el 1200. Con esta introducción en mano nos fuimos a visitar Oxford hace tan solo unos dias, y en particular al colegio y a la catedral de la iglesia de Cristo (Christ Church). Nos encanto su arquitectura, sus jardines, y su historia. Nos impresiono que de este colegio hubieran salido muchos primeros ministros británicos, que escenas de las peliculas de Harry Potter fueran filmadas alli, y que Alicia en el pais de las maravillas de Lewis Carroll, fuera inspirada en su vida cuando trabajaba en ese colegio. Una anécdota es que Alicia era el nombre de una de las tres hijas del vice-canciller de la universidad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Despues de una visita asi uno tiene ganas de hacer mas. Quizás no tanto como meternos en la política británica, ni tampoco volver al estrés de exámenes y disertaciones, pero si de algo asi como ver la &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa9odo_alice-in-wonderland-3d-2010-movie-t_shortfilms"&gt;pelicula&lt;/a&gt; en 3d de Tim Burton que estan exhibiendo actualmente en los cines, o ir a buscar el libro y leerlo de un tiron. Como también re-leer la serie Harry Potter de J. K. Rowling, quien por esas cosas de la vida, y a sabiendas de que el mundo es un pañuelo, dio el &lt;a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination"&gt;discurso&lt;/a&gt; de comienzo de curso en Harvard donde abordo temas como la responsabilidad, la empatia, el fracaso y la imaginacion. Son palabras que inspiran, incluso a muchos de nosotros que hemos jugado beisbol de cuatro-esquinas en el barrio de nuestra infancia, y que solo podemos sonar con las grandes ligas o asistir como espectadores un fin de semana cualquiera.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S8Ov0fvoTaI/AAAAAAAAATY/NBZTfE8hLYc/s320/DSC_0400.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459400489712504226" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I were to speak about the &lt;a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/"&gt;University of Oxford&lt;/a&gt;, the oldest university in the English speaking world, in baseball terms, I would definitely call it the "major leagues". It is up there with other sacred cows such as Harvard in the US and Cambridge in the UK, this last one still a bitter rival, and not only in the rowing race. After all Cambridge university was founded by academics that left Oxford in the 1200's. With this info in hand, there was nothing else to do that to head towards the mighty Oxford to visit Christ Church College and Cathedral. We did just that last weekend and were amazed by their beautiful architecture and great history. Numerous British prime ministers have been graduates of Christ Church and in a lighter note we learned that scenes from Harry Potter were filmed there, and that Alice in Wonderland was inspired in this setting. Actually, Alice was one of the three daughters of the vice-chancellor of Oxford University. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Needless to say that we got plenty of food for thought out of this short trip: I do not want to meddle in British politics or get lost again in the stress of exams and dissertations, but I would love to see the film &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa9odo_alice-in-wonderland-3d-2010-movie-t_shortfilms"&gt;Alice in wonderland&lt;/a&gt; , directed by Tim Burton, and playing right now on movie theaters around the world in 3d, or get the book from our local library. That one or the Harry Potter series that are a pleasure to read. Interesting enough, in this intertwined world, J. K. Rowling gave the &lt;a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination"&gt;commencement&lt;/a&gt; address at Harvard a while ago, where she tackled issues such as the consequences of failure, imagination, empathy and responsibility. It is a moving speech that inspires everyone, even those  that only played baseball on a street corner long ago on our childhood neighborhoods and can only dream of playing in the world series, or that can be simple spectators on a given weekend . &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-2815728523614771500?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/2815728523614771500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/oxford.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2815728523614771500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2815728523614771500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/oxford.html' title='Oxford'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S8Ov0fvoTaI/AAAAAAAAATY/NBZTfE8hLYc/s72-c/DSC_0400.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1831097579862930908</id><published>2010-04-04T14:06:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T18:01:44.094+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Easter is here/ Llegaron las Pascuas</title><content type='html'>Happy Easter everyone! We started the day with a visit from the Easter Bunny who left some lovely chocolate eggs on the garden, then we had a yummy breakfast with....you can guess....eggs, and more eggs. I hope you are celebrating as welll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S7iCD6XpV5I/AAAAAAAAATI/r5E2n3gQRwo/s1600/EASTER+BREAKFAST.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 197px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S7iCD6XpV5I/AAAAAAAAATI/r5E2n3gQRwo/s320/EASTER+BREAKFAST.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456253952279009170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Felices Pascuas para todos! Hemos empezado el dia  con la visita del conejito de pascuas que nos dejo unos huevitos de chocolate en el jardin, asi como por arte de magia, luego desayunamos....seguro que adivinas....huevos y mas huevos. Espero que lo celebres junto a los tuyos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1831097579862930908?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1831097579862930908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/easla-ter-is-here-llegaron-las-pascuas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1831097579862930908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1831097579862930908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/easla-ter-is-here-llegaron-las-pascuas.html' title='Easter is here/ Llegaron las Pascuas'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S7iCD6XpV5I/AAAAAAAAATI/r5E2n3gQRwo/s72-c/EASTER+BREAKFAST.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1312662841314853783</id><published>2010-03-09T12:53:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T13:12:21.024+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>From the ISS/ desde el espacio</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-style: italic;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;Hoy he visto en un periódico online las fotos del planeta tierra que envía el astronauta japonés Soichi Noguchi a través de su cuenta de twitter. Noguchi se encuentra orbitando en la estación espacial internacional, y las fotos son simplemente increíbles.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi"&gt;http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S5Y5X-C_bzI/AAAAAAAAASo/_7HQC02XXJE/s1600-h/mozanbique.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S5Y5X-C_bzI/AAAAAAAAASo/_7HQC02XXJE/s320/mozanbique.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446603883306512178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I have seen today in an online newspaper the incredible photos the Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi sends from his twitter account. He is orbiting the earth from the ISS, the international space station.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi"&gt;http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Mozanbique, Africa from the ISS by Soichi Noguchi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1312662841314853783?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1312662841314853783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-iss-desde-el-espacio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1312662841314853783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1312662841314853783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-iss-desde-el-espacio.html' title='From the ISS/ desde el espacio'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S5Y5X-C_bzI/AAAAAAAAASo/_7HQC02XXJE/s72-c/mozanbique.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-8748714567055208795</id><published>2010-02-25T17:52:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T20:22:34.276+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canada'/><title type='text'>Vancouver  2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4atni84bTI/AAAAAAAAASg/pGtzpCYAY3E/s1600-h/mascots.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4atni84bTI/AAAAAAAAASg/pGtzpCYAY3E/s320/mascots.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442228094632488242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Every evening for the last few days, our family has been enjoying the BBC highlights of the &lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/"&gt;2010 winter Olympics &lt;/a&gt;in Vancouver. The figure skating event is one of our favorites, as it is curling, a very particular event whose way of compiling scores I have yet to figure out.  We suffer with every fall, and cheer up talented competitors fro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;m all parts of the globe. Pitusita likes the mascots, which are based on both the Canadian nature and folk stories from the aboriginal people. The &lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot"&gt;mascots&lt;/a&gt; are Miga, the young sea bear, that is half whale and half bear; Quatchi, a shy mitological sasquatch; Sumi, an animal spirit; and their sidekick Mukmuk, the island marmot. They can make any child want to visit Vancouver, but if you cannot make it there just yet, you can always visit their website to check out some videos and download photos and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; coloring pages. In the meanwhile I will continue enjoying the winter games!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;style&gt;e Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0in;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1  {size:8.5in 11.0in;  margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;  mso-header-margin:.5in;  mso-footer-margin:.5in;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} &lt;/style&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4atj4qRxUI/AAAAAAAAASY/zZBCgAn4KKk/s1600-h/mascots1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4atj4qRxUI/AAAAAAAAASY/zZBCgAn4KKk/s320/mascots1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442228031740560706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cada noche durante los últimos días, hemos disfrutado en familia de los mejores momentos de las &lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/"&gt;olimpiadas de invierno&lt;/a&gt; que esta vez tienen lugar en Vancouver y que nos muestra la BBC. El patinaje artístico es uno de mis favoritos, sufrimos cuando alguien se cae, y aplaudimos a cada participante cuando hace algo bien sin pensar en nacionalidades. El curling nos entretiene mucho, pero aun no sabemos exactamente como es que cada equipo obtiene los puntos.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pitusita por su parte, esta encantada con&lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot"&gt; las mascotas&lt;/a&gt;, que han sido basadas en la naturaleza y la mitología de los pueblos aborigenes del Canadá. Ellos son: Miga que es mitad oso y mitad ballena; Quatchi que es un sasquatch y que según la leyenda vive en el bosque; Sumi que es un espíritu guardián, y la pequeñita marmota Mukmuk que pertence a las islas y está en vías de extinción. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Si no puedes llegarte a Vancouver a visitar las mascotas, quizás pudieras visitar su website para ver videos y descargar fotos y p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;á&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ginas para colorear. Y mientras tanto, yo sigo disfrutando de las competencias!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-8748714567055208795?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/8748714567055208795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/vancouver-2010.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8748714567055208795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8748714567055208795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/vancouver-2010.html' title='Vancouver  2010'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4atni84bTI/AAAAAAAAASg/pGtzpCYAY3E/s72-c/mascots.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3915836015386939236</id><published>2010-02-25T15:15:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T23:57:51.844+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Trunki: La maletica/ The little suitcase</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4aGEqLIEPI/AAAAAAAAASQ/z_kn6wqgKQM/s1600-h/trunki.jpg"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;Creo que he encontrado lo que necesitaba para viajar con P ¿Acaso no quiero eliminar las perretas, aunque escasas, en el aeropuerto o la estación de trenes? ¿No quiero, a veces, dejar la carriola o el cochecito/carrito en casa pero aún así tener una manera de que P no se canse en el trayecto, y que el viaje  sea divertido desde el principio, incluso a la hora de empacar?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; Pues la maletica &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;con ruedas llamada &lt;a href="http://www.trunki.co.uk/"&gt;TRUNKI&lt;/a&gt; me ofrece exactamente eso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4aGEqLIEPI/AAAAAAAAASQ/z_kn6wqgKQM/s1600-h/trunki.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4aGEqLIEPI/AAAAAAAAASQ/z_kn6wqgKQM/s320/trunki.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442184614322376946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;I think I finally found it. Don't you want to alleviate or even eliminate toddler tantrums at airports and train stations, like me? Do you want to leave the scooter or the stroller/ pram at home but still have a way to carry your child when tired? Do you want to make the trip more fun from the let go? Then check out this super cute &lt;a href="http://www.trunki.co.uk/"&gt;TRUNKI&lt;/a&gt; suitcase with wheels. I think it is a very smart idea. I cannot wait to get one for my Pitusita.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Note: Click on the word trunki to go to the webpage/Cliquea en la palabra trunki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3915836015386939236?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3915836015386939236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/trunki-la-maletica-little-suitcase.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3915836015386939236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3915836015386939236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/trunki-la-maletica-little-suitcase.html' title='Trunki: La maletica/ The little suitcase'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4aGEqLIEPI/AAAAAAAAASQ/z_kn6wqgKQM/s72-c/trunki.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3268089450340331393</id><published>2010-02-22T16:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T23:58:46.126+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Japan/Japon'/><title type='text'>Origami</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !mso]&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;style&gt; st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Origami is the art of folding (oru) paper (kami), and it started first in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;China&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, spreading to Japan later on. One of the most popular origami models is the crane, which was a sacred bird in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Japan&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and has also become a peace symbol. It is said that folding a thousand origami cranes will grant any wish whatsoever. Anyways, I think it can be fun to have a go at it with your children; it would also help them focus and teach them how to follow instructions. Pitusita and I did a couple of models from the site &lt;a href="http://www.origami-club.com/en/"&gt;Origami Club&lt;/a&gt;, click and it will take you to its page. Have fun!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4KfUFa4WqI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ju0F5p25mP4/s1600-h/origamicrane.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 201px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4KfUFa4WqI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ju0F5p25mP4/s320/origamicrane.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441086467218102946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;Origami es el arte de doblar (oru) el papel (kami), y comenzó primero en China y luego pas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;ó&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; a Japón donde se hizo parte vital de esa cultura. Uno de los modelos más populares de origami es la grulla, esa ave sagrada que también se ha convertido en un símbolo de paz. Según la leyenda, aquel que logre doblar mil grullas de origami, podrá obtener cualquier deseo, por muy descabellado que parezca. Creo que sería divertido y muy creativo hacer figuras de origami con nuestros niños, les ayudaría a enfocarse y les enseñaría a seguir instrucciones. Pitusita y yo hicimos algunos de los que presentan en el sitio &lt;a href="http://www.origami-club.com/en/"&gt;Origami club. &lt;/a&gt;Pincha el enlace y te llevará a su página ¿Te embullas?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3268089450340331393?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3268089450340331393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/origami.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3268089450340331393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3268089450340331393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/origami.html' title='Origami'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4KfUFa4WqI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ju0F5p25mP4/s72-c/origamicrane.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-2767890130078939140</id><published>2010-02-18T15:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T13:41:38.846+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany/Alemania'/><title type='text'>Neuschwanstein</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4EpepcpwBI/AAAAAAAAAR4/G2F8VUqY624/s1600-h/neu1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4EpepcpwBI/AAAAAAAAAR4/G2F8VUqY624/s320/neu1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440675431339114514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Last December, Pitusita, her dad and I, decided to visit the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/palace/index.htm"&gt;Schloss Neuschwanstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, or in plain English the New Swan Stone castle, located in the Bavaria region in Germany. This is the same castle that inspired the designs for Beauty and the Beast and the logos for all things Disney.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The castle was built by the eccentric Ludwig II during the 19th century, as homage to Richard Wagner, the German composer. In winter the castle truly seems to emerge from a beautiful fairy tale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4EpYPsg0XI/AAAAAAAAARw/f1T-AMzuMKQ/s1600-h/neu2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4EpYPsg0XI/AAAAAAAAARw/f1T-AMzuMKQ/s320/neu2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440675321347101042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;En Diciembre nuestra familia visitó el “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.neuschwanstein.de/spanisch/palacio/index.htm"&gt;Schloss Neuschwanstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“, o en español, el castillo del nuevo cisne de piedra, que se encuentra en la región de Bavaria al sur de Alemania. Este es el mismo castillo que inspiró los diseños en La Bella y la Bestia y los logos utilizados en todo lo que tiene que ver con Disney.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Neuschwanstein fue mandado a construir por el excéntrico Ludwig II durante el siglo XIX, como homenaje a Richard Wagner, el famoso compositor alemán. En invierno la vista es tal, que parece salir de un cuento de hadas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S31JyOKgYsI/AAAAAAAAARo/ycQi1kO4f1E/s1600-h/el+castillo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S31JyOKgYsI/AAAAAAAAARo/ycQi1kO4f1E/s320/el+castillo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439585052077875906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-2767890130078939140?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/2767890130078939140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/neuschwanstein.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2767890130078939140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2767890130078939140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/neuschwanstein.html' title='Neuschwanstein'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4EpepcpwBI/AAAAAAAAAR4/G2F8VUqY624/s72-c/neu1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1233589609409816790</id><published>2010-02-08T23:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-08T23:47:54.379+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Eco Toys</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S3CSvsYiuPI/AAAAAAAAARg/-ms6CMh1X7A/s1600-h/ecofort.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 178px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S3CSvsYiuPI/AAAAAAAAARg/-ms6CMh1X7A/s320/ecofort.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436006098301794546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !mso]&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;style&gt; st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;I found these lovely eco friendly toys made from corrugated cardboard, at the &lt;a href="http://www.eco-age.com/home"&gt;Eco store &lt;/a&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;London&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;. The store is run by Livia Giuggioli, wife of the Oscar nominated Colin Firth, and her brother Nicola. They have plenty of ideas and objects to inspire you into a greener lifestyle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S3CSnaLhVbI/AAAAAAAAARY/BQJSD8wjSnI/s1600-h/ecodoll.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S3CSnaLhVbI/AAAAAAAAARY/BQJSD8wjSnI/s320/ecodoll.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436005955976385970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES-CO"&gt;Encontré estos juguetes hechos de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cartón&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES-CO"&gt;corrugado en la tienda &lt;a href="http://www.eco-age.com/home"&gt;Eco&lt;/a&gt;, en Londres. Me encanta como lucen y que sean biodegradable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;s. La tienda es de Livia Giuggioli, la esposa del actor nominado al Oscar, Colin Firth, y su hermano Nicola. Ellos ofrecen millones de ideas y objetos que te pueden inspirar a reverdecer tu vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1233589609409816790?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1233589609409816790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/eco-store.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1233589609409816790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1233589609409816790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/eco-store.html' title='Eco Toys'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S3CSvsYiuPI/AAAAAAAAARg/-ms6CMh1X7A/s72-c/ecofort.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-8918078293594802610</id><published>2010-01-31T18:06:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-05T00:00:37.861+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><title type='text'>The Scooter/ La Carriola</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SyLhugroZ-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/oQC6XlmMMW4/s1600-h/corazoncito2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 117px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SyLhugroZ-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/oQC6XlmMMW4/s320/corazoncito2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414137891215927266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La carriola rosada de Pitusita es más que un simple juguete con el que puede divertirse, ya que se ha convertido en un medio de transporte indispensable que a la vez la ayuda en la transición de cochecito a ser bípedo y que le enseña balance y coordinación. Creo que se ha convertido en un objeto de culto no solo para ella sino para  la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; mayoría de los niños de esta ciudad pues las veo en cada parque y en cada esquina. No en vano esta carriola, diseñada por la compañía suiza &lt;a href="http://www.micro-mobility.com/"&gt;Micro Mobility Systems&lt;/a&gt;, gano el premio de mejor juguete del año en el 2007.&lt;br /&gt;La carriola mini-micro es para niños de 3 a 5 años, tiene tres ruedas, una manivela en forma de T, una base plástica (usualmente rosada o azul pero también las he visto en naranja, verde, amarillo y rojo), y es una de esas cosas que a Pitusita le encantan.&lt;br /&gt;PS. No olviden ponerse los cascos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4EqiJHRi9I/AAAAAAAAASA/qGEuwEfGu48/s1600-h/scooter.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S4EqiJHRi9I/AAAAAAAAASA/qGEuwEfGu48/s320/scooter.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440676590890617810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pitusita’s Pink scooter is more that a simple toy to enjoy. It has become an indispensable mode of transport that helps her in the transition fr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;om stroller to full time pedestrian and in the acquisition of coordination and balance. She rides her scooter on every outing, as do the children I see on the parks of this city, which means that it must also be quite fashionable.&lt;br /&gt;Her scooter is the mini-micro, and it is designed by a Swiss company called &lt;a href="http://www.micro-mobility.com/"&gt;Micro Mobility Systems&lt;/a&gt;. It is for children ranging from 3 to 5 years old and it won the Best Toy of the Year prize in 2007.  It has 3 wheels, a t-bar, and a plastic base that usually comes in pink or blue, but I have also seen other colors on the street. The mini-micro scooter is Pitusita’s favorite thing at this moment.&lt;br /&gt;PS. Remember to always wear your helmet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-8918078293594802610?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/8918078293594802610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/la-carriola-rosada-de-pitusita-es-mas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8918078293594802610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8918078293594802610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/la-carriola-rosada-de-pitusita-es-mas.html' title='The Scooter/ La Carriola'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SyLhugroZ-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/oQC6XlmMMW4/s72-c/corazoncito2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-8511323128033361709</id><published>2010-01-26T02:33:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-05T00:02:24.307+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canada'/><title type='text'>Toronto and Niagara</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15IXXx7PHI/AAAAAAAAARQ/fp-Rpd33Arw/s1600-h/tor2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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&lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Canada is simply, in my opinion, one of the best places to hang out with the family. It does not matter if we visit a city such as &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Toronto&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;or the renowned Niagara Falls&lt;/st1:city&gt;, or just the shores of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;lake&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Ontario&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. The point is that it is always fun......Check out these pics I took when I was there with Pitusita, and you will see what I mean.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15G-UKRyuI/AAAAAAAAARA/gJGqHZpsQsg/s1600-h/tor3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15G-UKRyuI/AAAAAAAAARA/gJGqHZpsQsg/s320/tor3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430856237033048802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                                                           CN Tower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15G5bwNF2I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/x6OBAwMBbEU/s1600-h/toronto.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15G5bwNF2I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/x6OBAwMBbEU/s320/toronto.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430856153171826530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15Gxv2MWMI/AAAAAAAAAQw/fuwwfIH15I0/s1600-h/niag1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15Gxv2MWMI/AAAAAAAAAQw/fuwwfIH15I0/s320/niag1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430856021126699202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                                                         Niagara Falls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15GsUfOsNI/AAAAAAAAAQo/nYXonj5DeVI/s1600-h/niag.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 152px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15GsUfOsNI/AAAAAAAAAQo/nYXonj5DeVI/s320/niag.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430855927883280594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canadá es uno de esos países donde uno se siente a gusto cuando va con la familia. No importa si es a una de sus ciudades como Toronto, a las cataratas del Niágara, o simplemente a las orillas del lago Ontario….Mira las fotos que tomé hace poco y así te darás cuenta de lo que digo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15GiTqAKXI/AAAAAAAAAQg/ZIsVhnq8T5Q/s1600-h/niag2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 271px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15GiTqAKXI/AAAAAAAAAQg/ZIsVhnq8T5Q/s320/niag2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430855755861338482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-8511323128033361709?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/8511323128033361709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/toronto-and-niagara.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8511323128033361709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8511323128033361709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/toronto-and-niagara.html' title='Toronto and Niagara'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S15IXXx7PHI/AAAAAAAAARQ/fp-Rpd33Arw/s72-c/tor2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7492405714027159671</id><published>2010-01-24T15:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T14:38:37.560+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy/Italia'/><title type='text'>Los Alpes/ The Alps</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xd6-5NkTI/AAAAAAAAAPo/G9ShZBd3XhE/s1600-h/downhill.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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&lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Being born in the tropics meant that skiing in the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Alps&lt;/st1:place&gt; was something beyond my imagination. Snow, gloves, icy mountains, helmets, skies, boots, and so on, were part of the movies I used to watch but nothing more. However during last Christ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;mas everything changed. We decided to spend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; our holidays with our friends in the north of &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Italy&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, skiing in the &lt;a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1237"&gt;Dolomites&lt;/a&gt;, in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;South Tyrol&lt;/st1:place&gt;. Not without a little apprehension, we decided to take lessons and dared to ski in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xjDmtV6RI/AAAAAAAAAQY/FWAbjBhFUiE/s1600-h/club.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 159px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xjDmtV6RI/AAAAAAAAAQY/FWAbjBhFUiE/s320/club.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430324164283459858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.speikboden.it/"&gt;Speikboden &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.klausberg.it/"&gt;Klausberg&lt;/a&gt;, which I was told were two of the best places to do so.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;We saw plenty of children and adults (begi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;nners) taking lessons with instructors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;, all dr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;d in red uniforms. They took breaks now and then and sat with hot chocolates and in the case of the adults, with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;steaming jagertees, which literally means "Hunters's tea" and it is a mix of rum and black tea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Pitusita, being so small, spent her days in the mini club, where she played with other c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xec-JiPpI/AAAAAAAAAQA/9cAZM_YB1fE/s1600-h/ski.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xec-JiPpI/AAAAAAAAAQA/9cAZM_YB1fE/s320/ski.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430319102514314898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;hildren on the snow, rode on sleds, napped when tired and even learned some German. As it is usually the case, everything went well except at the last moment, where unfortunately I broke a bone. My positive side tells me that at least it was during the last day and we enjoyed a marvelous holiday, and my negative one reproaches me f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;or not going to the tropics instead. Still I do not regret it but I do recommend everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; to be careful and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; wear &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;helmets and the like when doing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; sports, in particu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;lar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt; if it involves snow and ice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xeERGI3PI/AAAAAAAAAPw/Vt-wdb52ueA/s1600-h/cable+car.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xeERGI3PI/AAAAAAAAAPw/Vt-wdb52ueA/s320/cable+car.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430318678103612658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} &lt;/style&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="trebuchet ms" style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;//&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Habiendo nacido en el trópico la idea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; de esquiar en Los Alpes era algo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;inimaginable para mí. La nieve, las&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; montañ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;as heladas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;, l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;os esquíes, el casc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;o, las botas y toda esa par&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;afernalia pertene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;cían a las&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; películas de mi infancia pero no a mi vida real.  Sin embargo durante estas navidades todo cambió. Mis días se fueron convirtiendo poco a poco en escenas de invierno de un filme del sur de Tirol ya que decidimos irnos a esquiar con nuestros amigos a las &lt;a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1237"&gt;Dolomitas&lt;/a&gt;, en el norte de Italia. Una mezcla de miedo y emo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;ción nos hicieron tomar lecciones y atrevernos a esquiar en &lt;a href="http://www.speikboden.it/"&gt;Speikboden&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://www.klausberg.it/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.klausberg.it/"&gt;Klausb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xeP8a7tBI/AAAAAAAAAP4/mY8WW_jh48k/s320/school.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430318878712116242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.klausberg.it/"&gt;erg&lt;/a&gt;, que según me han dich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;o s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;on dos de los mejores lugares para hacerlo. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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&lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;té &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;de cazadores, y es una mezcla de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; &lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt; &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;u3:worddocument&gt;   &lt;u3:view&gt;Normal&lt;u3:zoom&gt;0&lt;u3:punctuationkerning/&gt;     &lt;u3:validateagainstschemas/&gt;     &lt;u3:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;u3:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;u3:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;u3:compatibility&gt;         &lt;u3:breakwrappedtables/&gt;         &lt;u3:snaptogridincell/&gt;         &lt;u3:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;         &lt;u3:useasianbreakrules/&gt;         &lt;u3:dontgrowautofit/&gt;         &lt;u3:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/u3:browserlevel&gt;        &lt;/u3:compatibility&gt;       &lt;/u3:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;      &lt;/u3:ignoremixedcontent&gt;     &lt;/u3:saveifxmlinvalid&gt; 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	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;Pitusita aún pequeña para aprender, pasó sus días en el miniclub, don&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;de jugó con otros niños en la nieve, paseó en trineo, d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;urmió &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;su siesta y hasta aprendió un poco de alemán…Nuestras vacaciones fueron increíbles, y todo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt; pasó de maravilla, salvo en el último día que desafortunadamente me caí y me fracturé un hueso….mi lado optimista me dice, menos mal que ocurrió el último día y disfrutamos de unas vacaciones literalmente de películas, y mi lado &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;pesimista me reprocha el no hab&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;er ido al trópico. De todas maneras, no me arrepiento de haber experimentado algo diferente, pero si les aconsejo a todos ponerse los cascos y prestar mucha atención con todos los deportes, sobre todo cuando hay nieve y hielo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7492405714027159671?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7492405714027159671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/los-alpes-alps.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7492405714027159671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7492405714027159671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/los-alpes-alps.html' title='Los Alpes/ The Alps'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S1xd6-5NkTI/AAAAAAAAAPo/G9ShZBd3XhE/s72-c/downhill.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3860616804828404164</id><published>2010-01-18T13:53:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T14:56:33.735+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cada 31 de Diciembre al escucharse las campanadas de la medianoche mi abuelo sentenciaba: Un año más…..y un año menos. De esa manera mezclaba la esperan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;za en lo que se avecinaba con la realidad de ser simples mortales. Mi abuelo ya hace más de 20 años que no está con nosotros, pero sus proverbios, su risa, y su bondad siempre me acompañan. Y en cada víspera de año nuevo recuerdo sus palabras, reflexionando en lo logrado y lo que aun queda por lograr.  El &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;2010 aparece y me dan ganas de leer más, cocinar y disfrutar más, jugar con &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pitusita cada vez más……así que hinchemos las velas y continuemos la aventura. ¡Feliz 2010!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S7iMC-Fi9yI/AAAAAAAAATQ/q9EnHkwTuaY/s1600/abuelo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S7iMC-Fi9yI/AAAAAAAAATQ/q9EnHkwTuaY/s320/abuelo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456264931213244194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;/Every New Year’s Eve, while listening to the tolling of the midnight bells, my grandfather declared: A new year comes…. another one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; is gone! In that way he mixed hope and mortality in a single stroke. My grandpa left us over 20 years ago but his laughter, his kindness and his sayings are still with me. And every time a new year arrives I reflect on what I have done and would still love to do. I feel like enjoying every minute more, playing with Pitusita, reading more, cooking….so, let’s raise the boat sails and continue the journey. Happy 2010!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3860616804828404164?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3860616804828404164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3860616804828404164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3860616804828404164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010.html' title='2010'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/S7iMC-Fi9yI/AAAAAAAAATQ/q9EnHkwTuaY/s72-c/abuelo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6493646921054812808</id><published>2009-12-09T13:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T14:41:46.980+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Santa/Papa Noel</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sx-cFLMjQWI/AAAAAAAAAL4/zTQu9qfrYFc/s1600-h/santa1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sx-cFLMjQWI/AAAAAAAAAL4/zTQu9qfrYFc/s320/santa1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413216889841336674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;La temporada de navidad ha comenzado en Londres, con sus mercadillos en Hyde park y en el Southbank. El olor a vino con canela envuelve la ciudad. Los niños hacen sus listas para St. Nick, Santa Claus…? O era para Father Christmas, para papá Noel, o le Père Noël?...Que importa. El elegido traerá regalos entrando por la chimenea, o asomándose a la ventana, deberá comer todas las chucherías que le dejará mi hija. La Navidad ha comenzado en Londres y yo me voy sintiendo un poco niña.//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sx-cbNYyNUI/AAAAAAAAAMI/a_6O5eLK0Iw/s1600-h/santa2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 228px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sx-cbNYyNUI/AAAAAAAAAMI/a_6O5eLK0Iw/s320/santa2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413217268386641218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;The Christmas Season has started in London. There are Christmas markets in the Southbank and Hyde Park. The scent of mulled wine embraces this city and children everywhere write their lists to Santa, Father Christmas….or is it St. Nick? Papa Noel? Or is it Père Noël? The chosen one will bring Christmas presents through the chimney, or the window, and he will have to eat all the cookies that my daughter will leave for him. Christmas season has started in London and I just feel like a little child again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. Visita//Check out the &lt;a href="http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/"&gt;Geffrye Museum's&lt;/a&gt; annual Christmas Past Exhibition, ranging from the XVII century until today, and the &lt;a href="http://www.hydeparkwinterwonderland.com/"&gt;Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6493646921054812808?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6493646921054812808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/santapapa-noel.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6493646921054812808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6493646921054812808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/santapapa-noel.html' title='Santa/Papa Noel'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sx-cFLMjQWI/AAAAAAAAAL4/zTQu9qfrYFc/s72-c/santa1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-2616157430411355899</id><published>2009-12-07T02:50:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:40:34.226+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>The Earth/ La Tierra</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sxxjkp6pkHI/AAAAAAAAALg/zaNN5scTsX0/s1600-h/yann_arthus_bertrand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Tomorrow the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.cop15.dk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;climate change conference COP15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, that is the Conference of the parties number 15, will start in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Copenhagen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;,  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Denmark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;. It all started in 1995 in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Berlin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; with the first conference and now the parties will try to get a new global climate agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions in their respective countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;In the meantime I invite you to see the film &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;HOME&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and marvel at the sight of our fragile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pitusworl-21/detail/0500542619"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;planet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;.//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Mañana comienza la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.cop15.dk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;conferencia de cambio climático COP15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; en Copenhague, o sea la conferencia de las partes número quince después de aquella primera en Berlín en 1995. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Los representantes de cada país intentaran ponerse de acuerdo en lo concerniente al control de emisiones de gases que provocan el efecto invernadero.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Mientras tanto les propongo ver el filme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/homeprojectES"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;HOME (Hogar)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; del realizador Yann Arthus-Bertrand y se maravillen con nuestro frágil &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pitusworl-21/detail/0500542619"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;planeta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-2616157430411355899?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/2616157430411355899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/earth-la-tierra.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2616157430411355899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2616157430411355899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/earth-la-tierra.html' title='The Earth/ La Tierra'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sxxjkp6pkHI/AAAAAAAAALg/zaNN5scTsX0/s72-c/yann_arthus_bertrand.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6403892724260817614</id><published>2009-12-06T17:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T18:08:47.028+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia/Rusia'/><title type='text'>The Russian Ark/ El Arca Rusa</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://www.celluloid-dreams.com/library/m_r/russian_ark/trailer"&gt;Russian Ark&lt;/a&gt; is a feature film done at the &lt;a href="http://www.hermitagemuseum.org"&gt;Hermitage&lt;/a&gt; with a single shot for more than 90 minutes by director Alexander Sokurov. It is a little jewel.//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El &lt;a href="http://www.celluloid-dreams.com/library/m_r/russian_ark/trailer"&gt;arca rusa&lt;/a&gt; es un filme hecho en el &lt;a href="http://www.hermitagemuseum.org"&gt;Hermitage&lt;/a&gt;, siguiendo una sola toma que dura más de 90 minutos, por el director Alexander Sokurov. Es toda una joyita.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6403892724260817614?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6403892724260817614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/russian-ark-el-arca-rusa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6403892724260817614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6403892724260817614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/russian-ark-el-arca-rusa.html' title='The Russian Ark/ El Arca Rusa'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-7858220070269361030</id><published>2009-12-04T16:06:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T14:05:59.095+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia/Rusia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cocina/Cuisine'/><title type='text'>From Russia with love</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sxkr1iaLP5I/AAAAAAAAALY/AVt--yV4V2A/s1600-h/Russia.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 309px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sxkr1iaLP5I/AAAAAAAAALY/AVt--yV4V2A/s320/Russia.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411404626032017298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Russian culture is truly fascinating. It amazes me how it has managed to survive amid the troublesome times that have befallen that country time and again. I love the Bolshoi ballet and beautiful St. Petersburg, or at least the idea of it, since Pitusita and I have yet to set foot in Russia. But since it is my firm belief that one does not really have to get on a plane or train to get a sense of another country and culture, I thought it would be interesting to have a little b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;it of Russia brought into our lives.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;On Mr. Pituso’s birthday, we went to a Russian restaurant in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Primrose Hill, a nice neighborhood in the north of London, and celebrated the occasion wit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;h herrings for entrée and Russian &lt;a href="http://www.urbancookingguide.com/perogies-mushrooms-onions.html"&gt;pierogies &lt;/a&gt;(dumplings), as main dish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;You too could bo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;ok that table on a local restaurant offering dishes from the country you want to “visit”, or you can cook it yourself and have that inte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;rnational party at home. I am sure that with the right music and vibe, it could become a great travelling experience.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Pitusita and I, on our Russian quest, got also hold of those stackable Russian wooden dolls, the famous &lt;a href="http://collectibles.suite101.com/article.cfm/russian_matrushka_dolls"&gt;Matryoshkas&lt;/a&gt; (or matrushkas) that most toddl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;ers enjoy.//&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxkqQW7ByoI/AAAAAAAAALI/DllIgVjDZCc/s1600-h/matr4.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 281px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxkqQW7ByoI/AAAAAAAAALI/DllIgVjDZCc/s320/matr4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411402887781796482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;La cultura rusa ha sobrevivido innumerables revuelos a lo largo de la hist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;oria de ese país. Para mi es&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; algo fas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;cinante, pues me encanta su literatura clásica, el ballet Bol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;shoi, o incluso la ciudad de San Petersburgo, o al menos la idea que tengo de ella a través de películas y libros pues todavía no hemos puesto los pies allí. 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Como plato de entrada comimos arenques, que es un pescad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;o pequeño del Báltico, y de plato principal pedimos &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi"&gt;pierogies&lt;/a&gt;, que son como una especie de empanadillas de pasta rellenas con carne y champiñones, queso, o col fermentada.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Tú también pudier&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;as reservar una mesa en el restaurante que ofrece comidas del país que quisieras visitar, y entre el ambiente, los platos, y la música, seguro te sentirás que eres un viajero. O mejor aún, puedes cocinar en casa e invitar a tus amigos para tener una fiesta internacional.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Pitusita y yo decidimos seguir con el tema ruso comprando unas &lt;a href="http://www.latin.ru/artesanias/"&gt;matrioshkas&lt;/a&gt;, esas muñequitas de madera que tienen otra dentro, y otra más, y otra más…Son un regalo seguro para cualquier niño.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos by Mr. Pituso&lt;br /&gt;Catedral de San Basilio/ St. Basil's Cathedral&lt;br /&gt;Pitusita's Russian dolls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-7858220070269361030?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/7858220070269361030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/from-russia-with-love.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7858220070269361030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/7858220070269361030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/from-russia-with-love.html' title='From Russia with love'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sxkr1iaLP5I/AAAAAAAAALY/AVt--yV4V2A/s72-c/Russia.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-8577026577153038823</id><published>2009-12-03T15:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T15:02:36.422+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Hampton Court Palace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxfMVTnB7CI/AAAAAAAAAKY/9XU2VkDTMEg/s1600-h/hc5.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxfMVTnB7CI/AAAAAAAAAKY/9XU2VkDTMEg/s320/hc5.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411018143722236962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;A few days ago we felt like going to visit a real palace. Pitusita is going through a princess phase, and we thought that she could experience being a little Snow White if we visited &lt;a href="http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/"&gt;Hampton Court Palace&lt;/a&gt; in the south west of London.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"&gt;The palace has two main architectural styles: Baroque and Tudor, and we could recognize elements of both: The dramatic opulent style of the first, and the beautiful chimneys fashioned on the second one. We saw a demonstration of how people were &lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pitusworl-21/detail/0754640965"&gt;dressed in Tudor times&lt;/a&gt;; suffice to say that there were many, many layers. We visited the very big kitchen, the cellar, the dining hall, and the many apartments that belonged to different monarchs.The palace was built for Cardinal Wo&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxfMr7aQQfI/AAAAAAAAAKw/1NK4wQkoe0Q/s1600-h/hc2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxfMr7aQQfI/AAAAAAAAAKw/1NK4wQkoe0Q/s320/hc2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411018532363190770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;lsey but later on passed to Henry VIII,  who stands out as a king with many &lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pitusworl-21/detail/0099437244"&gt;wives&lt;/a&gt;, two of whom where executed. Oops…&lt;br /&gt;Pitusita loved the gardens, specially the maze. It has hidden sensors triggering sounds that contribute to that sense of the unexpected. She was running, playing hide and seek, and scaring me a little bit a couple of times that I could not find her.&lt;br /&gt;If you wake up feeling like a Queen or King and want to take your little princes and princesses for a day of culture and fun, maybe you will think of Hampton Court and decide to have a royal day. //&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxfMbruIBXI/AAAAAAAAAKg/6Be0bjpXChM/s1600-h/hc4.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxfMbruIBXI/AAAAAAAAAKg/6Be0bjpXChM/s320/hc4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411018253273662834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hace unos días visitamos el palacio &lt;a href="http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/"&gt;Hampton Court&lt;/a&gt;, en el sudoeste de Londres.  Pitusita esta pasando por una etapa de príncipes y princesas y pensamos que sería una buena ocasión para que experimentara lo que es ser una mini Blanca Nieves.&lt;br /&gt;El palacio se destaca por tener dos estilos arquitectónicos definidos: El barroco con su opulencia y drama, y el tudor, representado entre otros elementos, por las chimeneas contorneadas. Una vez dentro vimos una demostración acerca de cómo las personas vestían en la época Tudor, basta con decir que había que ponerse numerosas piezas de metros y metros de tela. También visitamos la gran cocina, el salón comedor, y los apartamentos de diferentes monarcas que allí vivieron a través de los años.&lt;br /&gt;El palacio fue construido por el Cardenal Wolsey y luego pasó a manos del Rey Enrique VIII, quien quedó en la memoria popular, como aquel rey que tuvo muchas &lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pitusworl-21/detail/8466632859"&gt;esposas&lt;/a&gt;, dos de las cuales fueron ejecutadas, oh oh…&lt;br /&gt;Pitusita corrió por los jardines, saltó,  jugó a los escondidos en el laberinto, el cual tiene alarmas que hacen sonidos cuando uno se acerca, y contribuyen a lo inesperado.&lt;br /&gt;Si un día ustedes se despiertan sintiéndose como reyes y deciden darle un día de cultura y diversión a sus pequeños príncipes, no lo duden y visiten este palacio, les aseguro que tendrán un día noble y real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-8577026577153038823?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/8577026577153038823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/hampton-court-palace.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8577026577153038823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/8577026577153038823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/hampton-court-palace.html' title='Hampton Court Palace'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SxfMVTnB7CI/AAAAAAAAAKY/9XU2VkDTMEg/s72-c/hc5.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-2170346576686432234</id><published>2009-11-29T13:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T15:00:44.027+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Matt dancing/ bailando</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY"&gt;Where the hell is matt?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came across this video of some guy dancing his very particular dance all over the world. It sure looked like fun. Enjoy it//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He visto este video de un muchacho bailando su baile particular, por todo el mundo. Me encanto su estilo. Disfrutenlo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on &lt;a href="http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/"&gt;www.wherethehellismatt.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-2170346576686432234?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/2170346576686432234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/dancing-with-matt.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2170346576686432234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/2170346576686432234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/dancing-with-matt.html' title='Matt dancing/ bailando'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-5363349059568584927</id><published>2009-11-27T15:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-12T01:20:49.879+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><title type='text'>PB in/en BA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SyLhugroZ-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/oQC6XlmMMW4/s1600-h/corazoncito2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 117px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SyLhugroZ-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/oQC6XlmMMW4/s320/corazoncito2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414137891215927266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On our last flight to Canada with British Airways, Pitusita got a lovely Paddington Bear activity bag that looks like the famous bear’s suitcase. It came with crayons and coloring sheets that made her experience a little more pleasant. Now the mini-suitcase is full of pencils, plasticine, brushes and crayons, and sits pretty on the desk, helping her invent her own world.//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sw_lZN8e0LI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/QNAI5IRGmpw/s1600/BA+paddington.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sw_lZN8e0LI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/QNAI5IRGmpw/s320/BA+paddington.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408793898898084018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;En nuestro más reciente viaje a Canadá, viajando con BA, Pitusita recibió una cajita de actividades hecha a semejanza de la maleta de viajes del famoso osito Paddington, uno de los personajes infantiles más conocidos en Gran Bretaña. La maletica vino con crayones y hojas para colorear, haciendo nuestro vuelo un poco mas divertido. Hoy por hoy la maletica sigue teniendo vida, guardando colores, pinceles y  plastilina, con los que Pitusita sigue inventando su mundo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-5363349059568584927?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/5363349059568584927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/pb-inen-ba.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5363349059568584927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/5363349059568584927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/pb-inen-ba.html' title='PB in/en BA'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SyLhugroZ-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/oQC6XlmMMW4/s72-c/corazoncito2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6711197635763320570</id><published>2009-11-22T00:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-05T00:07:35.760+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>Portrait-Autoportrait by Gilles Porte</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwiHBILw_VI/AAAAAAAAAKI/cb9vuw8o070/s1600/Portraits_GillesPorte_DP_4oct09-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwiHBILw_VI/AAAAAAAAAKI/cb9vuw8o070/s320/Portraits_GillesPorte_DP_4oct09-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406719806104730962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/webtv/video-6780-Leonardo_3_ans_Italie.htm"&gt;Italy&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;a href="http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/webtv/video-6777-Natanel_5_ans_Israel.htm"&gt; Israel &lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/webtv/video-6785-Mayerly_6_ans_Colombie.htm"&gt;Colombia&lt;/a&gt;....pincha en la maravilla que nos trae &lt;a href="http://www.gillesporte.fr/Textes/SIMV.htm"&gt;Porte&lt;/a&gt;// Click and see the beauty that &lt;a href="http://www.gillesporte.fr/Textes/SIMV.htm"&gt;Porte&lt;/a&gt; brings us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. You can get the book &lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pitusworl-21/detail/2021003159"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; as well// Puedes obtener el libro &lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pitusworl-21/detail/2021003159"&gt;aqui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6711197635763320570?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6711197635763320570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/portrait-autoportrait-by-gilles-porte.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6711197635763320570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6711197635763320570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/portrait-autoportrait-by-gilles-porte.html' title='Portrait-Autoportrait by Gilles Porte'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwiHBILw_VI/AAAAAAAAAKI/cb9vuw8o070/s72-c/Portraits_GillesPorte_DP_4oct09-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-1077124406484977655</id><published>2009-11-18T12:49:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T00:17:38.844+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ecuador'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>La Mitad del Mundo &amp; Greenwich Meridian</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwPvGpKmNRI/AAAAAAAAAJY/do8tEsEgjcQ/s1600/View.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 148px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwPvGpKmNRI/AAAAAAAAAJY/do8tEsEgjcQ/s320/View.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405426875183281426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Any location in our world can&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; be found if one knows its exact latitude and longitude. The first one refers to the location north or south of the Equator and the second one to the coordinates  for east-west measurement from the prime meridian at the &lt;a href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/places/royal-observatory/"&gt;Royal Observatory in Greenwich&lt;/a&gt;, UK. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwPsaMhTJUI/AAAAAAAAAJA/xiEGqDG9yvA/s1600/East+and+West.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwPsaMhTJUI/AAAAAAAAAJA/xiEGqDG9yvA/s320/East+and+West.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405423912556373314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This summer we visited Greenwich and Pitusita loved everything about it: She rode her bike, for the very first time, around the park that surrounds the observatory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;,  was amazed with the many clocks and telescopes on display, and really loved the cam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;era obscura that is inside. The entry to the observatory is free but the view of the Thames and the London skyline, from that vantage point, is priceless. We took plenty of pictures but the most important one was taken on the courtyard, with one foot on the east and the other one on the west.&lt;br /&gt;A few years ago I visited &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitad_del_Mundo"&gt;La Mitad del Mundo&lt;/a&gt;, (the middle of the world) which is located in Ecuador, and also had the chance of being north and south at the same time. I am looking forward to taking Pitusita there one day so she could be once again at two places at the same time.//&lt;br /&gt;Cualquier punto del planeta se puede encontrar si uno conoce su situación exacta, es decir su latitud, la coordenada sur o norte del Ecuador, y su longitud, que es la coordenada este-oeste con respecto al meridiano de Greenwic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwPslupa-hI/AAAAAAAAAJI/sAs2EM09Vfs/s1600/La+mitad+del+mundo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwPslupa-hI/AAAAAAAAAJI/sAs2EM09Vfs/s320/La+mitad+del+mundo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405424110695807506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;h, que se encuentra en el &lt;a href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/places/royal-observatory/"&gt;observatorio real &lt;/a&gt;en el Reino Unido.&lt;br /&gt;Este verano tuvimos la oportunidad de visitar el observatorio, cuya entrada es gratuita. Pitusita quedó impresionada con todo: la magia de la cámara obscura, los grandes rejoles y telescopios expuestos, y hasta con el parque que rodea el lugar y donde practicó sus habilidades con la bici.&lt;br /&gt;Tomamos miles de fotos del observatorio, de la vista maravillosa de Londres, y de la linea en el patio, con un pie al este y el otro al oeste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hace algunos años pude visitar &lt;a href="http://www.pichincha.gov.ec/lugarturistico/cgiInfoAtraTuri.asp?txtCodiLugaTuri=1701_093"&gt;la mitad del mundo en Ecuador&lt;/a&gt;, y tuve la suerte de poder poner un pie al norte y otro en el sur. Quisiera que Pitusita también lo hiciera algún día, no hay nada como este truco para estar en dos lugares a la misma vez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos. View of London from the Royal Observatory&lt;br /&gt;Pitusita on the east....and the west.&lt;br /&gt;La mitad del Mundo in Ecuador.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-1077124406484977655?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/1077124406484977655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/la-mitad-del-mundo-greenwich-meridian.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1077124406484977655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/1077124406484977655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/la-mitad-del-mundo-greenwich-meridian.html' title='La Mitad del Mundo &amp; Greenwich Meridian'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwPvGpKmNRI/AAAAAAAAAJY/do8tEsEgjcQ/s72-c/View.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-4044738762467183112</id><published>2009-11-14T20:31:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-09T15:28:35.861+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books and Films/Libros y Películas'/><title type='text'>P adores/ a P le encanta: Mouk</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Around the world with Mouk, or in its original French, Le tour du monde de Mouk, is Pitusita’s favorite book nowadays. Every single day I can see her travelling to Paris, Lapland, Pondicherry, and many other places with the help of this little bear, a sort of tour guide created by Marc Boutavant, a French illustrator .The book comes with reusable stickers that Pitusita has glued to her pink scooter and to all the windows and doors of our home. You can get the book in Amazon and also on Tate Online.//&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La vuelta al mundo con Mouk, o en su versión original francesa, Le tour du monde de Mouk, se ha convertido en el libro favorito de Pitusita. Día a día se le puede ver “viajando” a Madagascar, Grecia, China, y a otros destinos, con su amigo el osito Mouk, un guía  increíble, creado por el ilustrador Marc Boutavant. El libro viene acompañado de calcomanías que Pitusita ha pegado en su carriola y en las ventanas y puertas de la casa. Mouk se puede comprar en Amazon o en al tienda online del museo Tate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/childrens/le-tour-du-monde-de-mouk"&gt;Mira / Check the review by BOOk BY ITS COVER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-4044738762467183112?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/4044738762467183112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/normal-0-false-false-false.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4044738762467183112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4044738762467183112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/normal-0-false-false-false.html' title='P adores/ a P le encanta: Mouk'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6269250541436411669</id><published>2009-11-10T16:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T01:15:45.931+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Bath / Baños</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SvmKQFQvaNI/AAAAAAAAAHo/bSadhq7PCaY/s1600-h/Roman+baths.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SvmKQFQvaNI/AAAAAAAAAHo/bSadhq7PCaY/s320/Roman+baths.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402501236902553810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Last weekend we decided to drive to Bath, a city located in Somerset, here in the UK, and roughly less than 2 hours away from London, by car in heavy traffic. The city itself looks lovely and with its Georgian architecture, Roman baths and Cathedral, it is not wonder that it had to become a World Heritage Site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bath was established by the Romans as a spa. They believed that the thermal springs were the creation of Gods and even built a temple. So, off we were to take a tour of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/default.aspx"&gt;Roman baths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. Once there Pitusita shared the audio guide with me and we had fun looking at the museum displays, the depiction of Roman life projected on the walls, and the breathtaking views.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;It is not allowed to bathe on the museum, but next door there is the very modern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.thermaebathspa.com/"&gt;Thermae bath spa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, therefore, I decided to have some quality time and go for a swim on the rooftop pool. Sadly, children are not permitted, but I felt a little less guilty knowing that in the meanwhile Pitusita was enjoying some yummy ice cream with her dad in the main square. We all had fun and went back to London feeling recharged and a little happier with our indulgences.  //&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SvmKj505nyI/AAAAAAAAAH4/Sdo8wMY1H8c/s1600-h/Cath2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SvmKj505nyI/AAAAAAAAAH4/Sdo8wMY1H8c/s320/Cath2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402501577430376226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;El fin de semana anterior fuimos a visitar la ciudad de Baños (Bath), ubicada en Somerset en el Reino Unido. Queda a aproximadamente menos de 2 horas en carro, teniendo en cuenta el gran tráfico y los atascos. La ciudad es patrimonio cultural de la humanidad debido a sus magníficos baños romanos, su abadía y su arquitectura georgiana y fue establecida por los romanos alrededor de las aguas termales pues &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SvmKrqBb2XI/AAAAAAAAAIA/qI3QzzLhRzQ/s1600-h/modern+baths.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SvmKrqBb2XI/AAAAAAAAAIA/qI3QzzLhRzQ/s320/modern+baths.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402501710626937202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;creían que tenían propiedades naturales creadas por los dioses. Así que decidimos visitar el museo de los &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/default.aspx"&gt;baños romanos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; y disfrutar de la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-style: italic;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:100%;"   lang="ES-CO"&gt;exhibición&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; con sus proyecciones de vida romana en las paredes y las increíbles vistas, imaginando a cada paso como era la vida cotidiana en la antigüedad. Luego fuimos a los baños modernos que quedan al lado, llamados &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.thermaebathspa.com/"&gt;Thermae Bath Spa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. Y como la entrada de niños no es permitida, decidí darme una zambullida en la piscina de la azotea mientras Pitusita se tomaba un sabroso helado junto a su papa en la plaza central. De esa manera todos disfrutamos y recargamos las baterías para volver a Londres como nuevos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6269250541436411669?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6269250541436411669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/bath-banos.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6269250541436411669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6269250541436411669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/bath-banos.html' title='Bath / Baños'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SvmKQFQvaNI/AAAAAAAAAHo/bSadhq7PCaY/s72-c/Roman+baths.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-6541468733417151893</id><published>2009-10-24T20:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-12-03T16:12:32.902+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World/Mundo'/><title type='text'>UN / ONU</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuNNdnghc8I/AAAAAAAAAHg/n5gax43sW3M/s1600-h/logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuNNdnghc8I/AAAAAAAAAHg/n5gax43sW3M/s320/logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396241949736924098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Today is the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.un.org/en"&gt;United Nations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;' Day and many schools around the world celebrate diversity with food fairs that showcase dishes from all over the world, plays, typical dances, and other performances. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We can celebrate this day by cooking some exotic dish at home, such as yummy Mexican fajitas, or even Italian Spaghetti Bolognese, and later talk at the dinner table about what children from other countries usually eat or wear. It is also a great opportunity to introduce the kids to the work of the United Nations and its bodies, including UNICEF. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I wonder what Pitusita will want to help me cook.//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hoy se conmemora el Día de las &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.un.org/es/"&gt;Naciones Unidas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; (ONU) y en muchas escuelas a través del mundo se celebra con festivales en el que se prueban platos de diferentes países, se baila al ritmo de otras culturas y se visten trajes típicos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nosotros podemos celebrarlo cocinando algo sabroso y exótico en casa, como unas fajitas mexicanas o un spaghetti que al fin y al cabo es italiano. Luego podríamos conversar durante la cena con los peques acerca de la vida cotidiana de niños en otros países, lo que comen y como visten, por ejemplo. Es una buena oportunidad para mostrarles la labor que realizan la ONU, y todas sus agencias, incluyendo UNICEF.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Me pregunto que Pitusita querrá cocinar?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6541468733417151893?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6541468733417151893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/un.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6541468733417151893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6541468733417151893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/un.html' title='UN / ONU'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuNNdnghc8I/AAAAAAAAAHg/n5gax43sW3M/s72-c/logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-4936493716488980452</id><published>2009-10-24T14:48:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:41:55.671+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><title type='text'>P adores/ A P le encantan: Crocs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SygSVQUGR4I/AAAAAAAAAO4/u_o-iiv0Fek/s1600-h/pador.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 117px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SygSVQUGR4I/AAAAAAAAAO4/u_o-iiv0Fek/s320/pador.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415598708278839170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;If so&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;meone asked me what &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " href="http://www.crocs.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;crocs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; were, I would not mention the tropical reptiles that thrive around swamps, instead I w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;ould say that they are those slip-resistant clog-sandals that Pitusita adores. They are made of Croslite, an antibacterial and an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;tifungal resin material.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;She is going now through her third pair because she just keeps growing and growing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Her first ones were happy yellow, the second ones aqua-gree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;n, and the current ones are funky orange. They serve her well when going to the pool, when travelling, or when running around at home. The craze about crocs that took place a few years ago might be fading away, but for Pitusita they are still a good option.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuL6pGvKmZI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/x3dYM4I7Y-E/s1600-h/Crocs.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuL6pGvKmZI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/x3dYM4I7Y-E/s320/Crocs.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396150887633295762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Si alguien me preguntara acerca de los &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " href="http://www.crocs.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;crocs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, nunca me vendría a la mente la imagen de reptiles tropicales, sino aquella de esas sandalias resistentes  que a Pitusita le gustan tanto y que están hechas de Croslite, una resina antibacterial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Pitusita ya va por su tercer par, los primeros eran de un amarillo mas intenso que el sol, los segundos, verde azulados como el mar del Caribe y estos terceros son de un naranja feliz. Ella los usa cuando vamos a la piscina, o para estar cómoda en algún viaje o incluso en casa. Hace algunos años parecía que los crocs iban a tomar el mundo por los pies y quizás ahora eso haya cesado, pero a Pitusita le siguen encantando sus crocs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-4936493716488980452?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/4936493716488980452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/crocs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4936493716488980452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4936493716488980452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/crocs.html' title='P adores/ A P le encantan: Crocs'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SygSVQUGR4I/AAAAAAAAAO4/u_o-iiv0Fek/s72-c/pador.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-9077719257859680570</id><published>2009-10-24T13:33:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:43:01.740+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Legoland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuLwEIznN_I/AAAAAAAAAHI/Ow7WAC4E4d0/s1600-h/Legoland.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuLwEIznN_I/AAAAAAAAAHI/Ow7WAC4E4d0/s320/Legoland.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396139257417381874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " href="http://www.legoland.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.legoland.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Legoland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; is truly a magic place for children and adults.  Last weekend Mr Pituso, Pitusita and I had a lovely day at their site in Windsor, UK.  There are other sites located in Germany, US and Denmark and Pitusita has been to the one in Billund, but she was too young to remember. So, this time around we enjoyed different rides as if it were our very first time. We tried from the Vikings river splash to the scary dragon ride. We saw Goldilocks and the three bears at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;their puppet theater, caught the Bob the builder 4D movie, and marveled at Miniland’s landmarks. We ended our trip with a visit to the store to stock up on Lego bricks, which are great toys for children to develop their imagination.&lt;br /&gt;Legoland is a little on the expensive side but does not disappoint. It gave us the opportunity to become kids again next to Pitusita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;//&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwcTx2hXAcI/AAAAAAAAAJo/yj3aCFykpig/s1600/lego.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SwcTx2hXAcI/AAAAAAAAAJo/yj3aCFykpig/s320/lego.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406311624851521986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.legoland.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Legolandia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;link style="font-style: italic;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; es simplemente un lugar mágico tanto para niños como para adultos. Lo hemos comprobado Pitusita, el Sr. pituso y yo, al disfrutar el fin de semana anterior de su parque en Windsor, en el Reino Unido. Existen otros tres  parques tem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;áticos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;en Alemania, Estados Unidos, y l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;ógicamente en Dinamarca, que es el país de donde provienen. Pitusita ya ha visitado el que se encuentra en Billund, en Dinamarca, pero lo hizo cuando e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;ra muy p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;equeña y  no lo recuerda. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; " lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Esta vez disfrutamos de una puesta en escena de Ricitos de Oro y de la peli en 4d de Bob el constructor.También nos montamos en la montaña rusa del dragón, y nos maravillamos de las ciudades en miniatura de Miniland. Terminamos nuestra aventura con una visita a la tienda y nos llevamos a casa unos cuantos bloques de lego para que Pitusita construyera con su imaginación alguna que otra obra. Legolandia, aunque pudiera parecer un poquito caro, no decepciona. Nos dió la oportunidad de ser niños nuevamente y compartir con Pitusita un día increíble.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-9077719257859680570?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/9077719257859680570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/legoland.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/9077719257859680570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/9077719257859680570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/legoland.html' title='Legoland'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SuLwEIznN_I/AAAAAAAAAHI/Ow7WAC4E4d0/s72-c/Legoland.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-8832052426895765517</id><published>2009-09-10T17:10:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:44:29.107+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P adores.../ a P le encanta....'/><title type='text'>P adores/ a P le encanta: Bugaboo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SygS0SG8EdI/AAAAAAAAAPA/5qaK3HKO5Xo/s1600-h/pador.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 117px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SygS0SG8EdI/AAAAAAAAAPA/5qaK3HKO5Xo/s320/pador.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415599241336459730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Pitusita loved going out on her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bugaboo.com/home"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;bugaboo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; stroller (pram, pushchair, buggy) when she was a baby. They have various types of pushchairs with funny names such as frogs, bees or cameleons. P had a cameleon that was red and be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;ige. She was always so comfortable, sleeping on its horizontal position when going for a stroll on the shores of lake Ontario in Toronto, without f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;eeling a single pebble, or visiting Varadero beach in Cuba without &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;getting stuck on the sand, or even going out during a winter afternoon, in Warsaw, without worrying about the snow. The bugaboo cameleon has been a trusted friend that travelled the world with us. We will surely miss it now that P has grown so much. I suggest you learn more about these Dutch buggies, which are celebrating their 10th anniversary, by discovering the daytrips they recommend.//&lt;br /&gt;Cuando Pitusita era chiquitica, le encantaba pasear en su coche &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bugaboo.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;bugaboo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;. hay diferentes tipos de bugaboos, con nombres tan graciosos como ranita o abejita. El de Pitusita era el &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;camale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible; font-style: italic; " id="main"&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;ó&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; y ella estaba encantada, yendo a todos lados reclinada: A la costa del lago Ontario sin sentir casi las molestias de las piedras, a la playa de Vardero en Cuba a pesar de la arena, o a dar vueltas en Varsovia en invierno, arropadita. Nuestro bugaboo ha sido un fiel amigo que ha tenido muchas horas de vuelo. Seguro le echaremos de menos ahora que P ya no lo necesita. Te recomiendo que visites su website, ahora que andan celebrando aniversarios, y veas los viajecitos que recomiendan//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;link style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;link style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);" rel="Edit-Time-Data" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_editdata.mso"&gt;&lt;!--[if !mso]&gt; &lt;style&gt; v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqjK5MacgqI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Khr3hLAMFz4/s400/Sushi+%26+Tempura.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379772838827557538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Last night we decided to do some “armchair travelling”, which meant taking a tour to Asia without moving an inch. What happened was that Pitusita and I were strolling along Piccadilly Circus, the famous intersection of Piccadilly and the opulent Regent Street. It is located near Leicester Square, where Hollywood glamour encounters its devotees at movie premieres.  The area is a potpourri of big time labels and not so big time shops. And there we were, walking at a leisurely pace, admiring the beautiful architecture, when we came across &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " href="http://www.japancentre.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;The Japan Center Foodshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqjLDiBSvxI/AAAAAAAAAEo/vnmQZfPGg_0/s1600-h/Arroz.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 164px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqjLDiBSvxI/AAAAAAAAAEo/vnmQZfPGg_0/s400/Arroz.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379773016426331922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Once inside we truly felt like if we&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;were in Tokyo, and soon enough we had a basket full of rice crackers, nori sheets, soya sauce, wasabi, and sushi rice. We headed home quickly before nightfall, and asked Mr. Pituso, who is the “family chef”, to help us have a sushi fiesta. We cooked the rice in a rice cooker with some salt and a dash of vinegar, cut avocado and cucumbers into stripes and rolled everything into futomakis (fat sushi rolls). Mr. Pituso did some tempura (fast frying) by preparing a mix of tempura flour with iced water and putting everything that was on our fridge to test. Endives, sweet potatoes, shrimps, and shallots were bathed in batter and fried. We figured the sushi was so healthy that we had to compensate. Pitusita loved the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maki_sushi#Makizushi_or_Makimono"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;maki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, which were cut in tiny pieces especially for her, and without realizing it she travelled to Japan for an evening without moving an inch. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqjLS55O2PI/AAAAAAAAAEw/aGEFJOsIjsQ/s1600-h/Mini+Sushi.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 242px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqjLS55O2PI/AAAAAAAAAEw/aGEFJOsIjsQ/s400/Mini+Sushi.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379773280533010674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;link style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; " rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink 	{color:blue; 	text-decoration:underline; 	text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed 	{color:purple; 	text-decoration:underline; 	text-underline:single;} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; " lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; Anoche decidimos dar un viaje al Asia sin movernos ni una pulgada del butacón. Pitusita y yo andábamos de paseo por Piccadilly Circus, la famosa intersección de la avenida Piccadilly y Regent street,  una calle con aires de opulencia que queda cerca de la plaza Leicester, y donde usualmente se dan los estrenos de cine. Es donde la alcurnia Hollywoodiense se encuentra con sus admiradores. Y por allí andábamos, en ese potpurrí de grandes marcas, turistas, carros, tiendecitas y quincallas., admirando la arquitectura, cuando nos encontramos con el mercado del centro japonés .(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.japancentre.com/"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;The Japan Centre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; " lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; " lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Cuando uno entra, es como si Londres desapareciera y comenzara Tokio. Enseguida mi cesta se lleno de galleticas de arroz, hojas de alga (nori), salsa de soya, wasabi, y arroz para hacer sushi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Nos fuimos a casa antes de caer la noche y le pedimos al Sr. Pituso, que es el papa de Pitusita y designado por nuestra familia como “maestro” de cocina, que nos ayudara a hacer una fiesta con sushi. Cocinamos el arroz con una pizca de sal y unas gotas de vinagre en la olla arrocera. Cortamos aguacates y pepinos en tiras, y enrollamos todo haciendo los típicos futomakis (rollos gruesos). El Sr. Pituso se aventur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; " lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;ó&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; " lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; haciendo Tempura, que no es mas que embadurnar camarones o vegetales en una mezcla de harina para Tempura con agua helada, y freírlos en aceite bien caliente. Pensamos que siendo el sushi tan saludable, quizás valía la pena compensar con algo frito. A Pitusita le encantaron los &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makizushi#Makizushi"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;makis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; " lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; con salsa de soya, solo había que cortárselos en pequeños pedacitos y así sin darse cuenta se encontró viajando al Japón sin tener que mover tan siquiera un dedito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Photos by Pitusa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Cooking Japanese food at home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-6418136320645390388?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/6418136320645390388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/last-night-we-decided-to-do-some.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6418136320645390388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/6418136320645390388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/last-night-we-decided-to-do-some.html' title='Asia from the armchair/  Asia desde la butaca'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqjK5MacgqI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Khr3hLAMFz4/s72-c/Sushi+%26+Tempura.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-4746368721063854415</id><published>2009-09-07T23:42:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:48:58.688+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kenya/ Kenia'/><title type='text'>Sunrise in Africa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqV-gSp514I/AAAAAAAAACw/AfLkh1a-IFs/s1600-h/Kombi.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 204px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqV-gSp514I/AAAAAAAAACw/AfLkh1a-IFs/s400/Kombi.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378844423192434562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;Experiencing a sunrise in Africa while on a safari is a magical event. One can imagine how our planet used to be long ago, when only the wind and the animals were the ones carrying away the morning silence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;We were in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " href="http://www.go2africa.com/kenya/tsavo-national-park"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Tsavo National Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, in Kenya, less than 100 km from Mombasa and had travelled far to see the famous “Big Five Animals”. We had already seen a cheetah resting after a meal, lions taking naps, elephants strolling around, ostriches, numerous zebras, hippos, bandit monkeys that seemed to be everywhere concocting how to steal precious items such as combs, body cream bottles, or a simple piece of bread. But the mighty African sunrise on a clear morning still eluded us, and to be frank, it was mostly due due to our reluctance to wake up so early.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;After a few days we gave in and decided to go for it. 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" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;er el alba en África mientras estábamos de safari fue un momento mágico. Uno se imagina como nuestro planeta habría sido antaño, cuando solo el viento y los animales rompían el silencio matutino.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;stábamos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; en el parque nacional de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.go2africa.com/kenya/tsavo-national-park"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Tsavo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, en Kenia, a solo 100 km. de Mombasa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Habíamos viajado cautivados por la idea de ver los “Cinco Grandes” de África, esos animales que históricamente fueron los mas peligrosos. Ya habíamos visto a un guepardo después de haber cenado, a decir de su gran barrigón, leones en plena siesta, elefantes paseándose en grupos, avestruces, cebras por doquier, hipopótamos, monos que parecían haber salido de la banda de Ali Baba con su persistencia en robar cualquier objeto, desde un peine, un trozo de pan o un pote de crema descuidado en la piscina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Pero la vista de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;un amanecer nos eludía. Terminábamos tan cansados cada día, que nos era &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;imposible levantarnos tan tempranito al siguiente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqV_1DuexaI/AAAAAAAAADo/aPD0ZEOKDHU/s1600-h/Sun3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 145px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqV_1DuexaI/AAAAAAAAADo/aPD0ZEOKDHU/s400/Sun3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378845879473980834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-style: italic; " rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */  @font-face 	{font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; 	panose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:swiss; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;}  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Hasta que un día decidimos ir a por todas. Fuimos despertados a las 4:00 am, nos dieron leche caliente y galleticas, lo que ayudó con el frío, y tan pronto como pudimos nos montamos en el camioncito destinado al “safari”. Al cabo de unos minutos, después de haber recorrido un largo trecho, apareció ante nosotros el esplendor de la tierra africana con su aurora.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;"&gt;Note: Safari today has nothing to do with hunting. It is about observing animals in their habitat and taking lovely pictures// El safari &lt;/span&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBohdan%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="ES-CO"&gt;hoy por hoy, no tiene nada que ver con la caza. Es una ocasión para la observación de los animales en su hábitat y para tomar fotos increíbles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:100%;" lang="ES-CO"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqV_1DuexaI/AAAAAAAAADo/aPD0ZEOKDHU/s1600-h/Sun3.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-4746368721063854415?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/4746368721063854415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunrise-in-africa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4746368721063854415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/4746368721063854415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunrise-in-africa.html' title='Sunrise in Africa'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqV-gSp514I/AAAAAAAAACw/AfLkh1a-IFs/s72-c/Kombi.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-3357004059937367596</id><published>2009-09-03T13:36:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:55:03.524+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England / Inglaterra'/><title type='text'>Notting Hill Carnival</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqVw_0s9gEI/AAAAAAAAACg/zjCJa-ktgRs/s1600-h/Carnival1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;    &lt;p style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The houses in Notting Hill in west London remind me of cake frosting. They are neatly painted in pastel colors that match the many cars, mostly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://nissanfigaro.org/2.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Nissan Figaros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, parked on the street. I am walking along combinations of Barbie pink and buttercream façades, of topaz mist and royal frosting, of baby blue and emerald green, and lapis grey with ganache. I enjoy the beauty of the tranquil houses with their gardens, the neat line-up of automobiles, the silence, but suddenly, out of nowhere, a turn, a crossing, and Bang! Surprise! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thenottinghillcarnival.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;The Carnival&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqVw1wJNnXI/AAAAAAAAACY/PRnblZy1AQA/s1600-h/P+y+O.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 227px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqVw1wJNnXI/AAAAAAAAACY/PRnblZy1AQA/s400/P+y+O.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378829398722846066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Pitusita thinks it is too loud. She is both annoyed by the noise attacking her delicate ears and mesmerized by the sight. She is assaulted by the rumba, the crowds, Popeye and Olivia, chocolate flying around, feathers, costumes, and churros with vanilla.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The Notting Hill carnival is the biggest street festival in Europe, and takes place at the end of August every year. Next time you come to London give it a try on kids' day. I think they will enjoy it as much as Pitusita did.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Las casas del barrio de Notting Hill en el oeste de Londres me recuerdan a las tortas de fiestas de cumpleaños. Están pintadas de colores suaves que pegan con los carritos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.excelenciasdelmotor.com/News.aspx?Id=1556"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Nissan Fígaro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; parqueados a lo largo de las calles. Camino entre combinaciones de merengue rosado a lo Barbie y aqua pálido, de verde esmeralda mezclado con derretido de chocolate, y las casas aparecen una tras otra, tranquilas con sus grandes jardines, envueltas en la calma de una tarde de barrio….De pronto, después de doblar una esquina, al cruzar una calle: Boum, aparece por sorpresa el carnaval.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Pitusita al principio me dice que hay mucha bulla, no le gusta el ruido en sus delicados oídos, luego una expresión de maravilla la acompaña al ver grandes muñecones como Popeye y Olivia. La asalta la rumba, la gente, los olores, los plumajes, los disfraces, chocolate volando,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; churros con vainilla.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sp-08-xxnyI/AAAAAAAAAAU/_FtnGnqqulU/s1600-h/Carnival.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 99px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/Sp-08-xxnyI/AAAAAAAAAAU/_FtnGnqqulU/s200/Carnival.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377215439840583458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;El &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thenottinghillcarnival.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;carnaval de Notting Hill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;, tiene lugar los últimos días feriados de Agosto y es el festival callejero más grande de Europa. La próxima vez que estés en Londres en verano, te aconsejo que te des un saltico a verlo el día dedicado a los peques, quizás ellos lo disfruten tanto como Pitusita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8190986186877755865-3357004059937367596?l=pitusitaworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/feeds/3357004059937367596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/notting-hill-carnival.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3357004059937367596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8190986186877755865/posts/default/3357004059937367596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pitusitaworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/notting-hill-carnival.html' title='Notting Hill Carnival'/><author><name>Pitusa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17388962968164898777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqVw_0s9gEI/AAAAAAAAACg/zjCJa-ktgRs/s72-c/Carnival1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190986186877755865.post-5718229075350178099</id><published>2009-09-01T17:14:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T23:53:13.841+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Japan/Japon'/><title type='text'>Kyoto</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqVuCSRRsQI/AAAAAAAAACI/oZ14GSy1xPo/s1600-h/maiko.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 217px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtaPyu2Ed7U/SqVuCSRRsQI/AAAAAAAAACI/oZ14GSy1xPo/s400/maiko.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378826315507020034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;The first time we went to Japan was when Pitusita was almost one year old. We travelled all the way from Europe to Kyoto, which meant a long flight with a couple of stopovers and a ride on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.japanrail.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Shinkansen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;, but still managed to have a stress-free time. The serenity in Kyoto arises from the city itself, which is surrounded by lovely mountains. You can feel old Japan in every corner; after all it was the imperial capital once. Kyoto was spared the ravages of war and many of the old town houses, which are called machiya, still exist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;We stayed in a lovely &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eisu.co.jp/eisuclub-rakuyoso/e/top.html"&g
