Recently I got an email with a link to this website, with lots of posters which used to be in the metropolitan trains in Tokyo. Some of them are very Japanese, but some others could perfectly be applied to any other country.
My favourite ones are as follows (clic on the images to enlarge them):
Hace un par de meses escribÃa en este blog mi sorpresa al haber visto una Castilla verde en uno de mis viajes por la A-3, y ponÃa esta foto.
Hace unos dÃas, volvà a hacer el mismo trayecto en coche otra vez, y me paré en el mismo sitio para descubrir que el paisaje habÃa cambiado “ligeramente”:
Curioso, ¿no?
Update: Si no estuviera de vacaciones sin mi Mac, igual se me habrÃa ocurrido hacer lo que me ha propuesto Jose Carlos. Un par de crops por aquà y por allá, y voilà , un efecto mucho más claro. 😉
Eso es lo último que he escrito antes de salir de Madrid. Tengo por delante un par de semanas para agotar y recargar las pilas, porque en dos semanas voy a moverme un poquito, para variar…
Ahora estoy en el fantástico Marino en la A-3, camino de Alicante a pasar unos dÃas con la familia en la playa, luego vendrá Valencia, encuentro con amigos y 9 dÃas a Escocia. El broche final será la despedida de un amigo en un destino que no desvelaré aquà ya que es sorpresa y él lector en la sombra del blog. 😉
Seguiremos informando…
It’s probably one of the world’s best known places, so I am not going to describe it.
I will just say that I got truly impressed by the clean water, the nature in the island and the hundreds of nice coves all around the island.
It was quite interesting to walk around the Ibiza city, and see a city totally ready for the tourists. In some sense, it was like some areas of Benidorm, where you cannot imagine life without sun and crowds of people. Nevertheless, Ibiza has something else.
Ibiza is the destination of all kind of people: the ones who look for splendid beaches like the ones in Formentera, the ones looking for any of the hundreds of discos in the island, the ones of the yachts, the hippies, … Everybody.
And in all those groups, we can find the “poor” tourists (those coming to party or to the beach for a weekend for a few euros including hotel, meals and discos), and those who make Ibiza one of the places with a highest number of luxury cars in the world (I’m still shocked with how many people go there just to show off, without paying attention to the “how much”)… Strange but attractive combination. Only one thing in common: “enjoy”.
I must say that I discover a small paradise much closer than expected: Formentera. It is a small island next to Ibiza, not as populated as the latter, but with really nice beaches with water like in the Caribbean Sea.
There is an advertisement of a beer, which has been filmed in Formentera and tries to transmit the life in the Balearic islands in summer… It’s a hot among the local people in Ibiza and surroundings, and it is impossible not to get caught by the rhythm of the song.
If you haven’t been to Madrid in the last few years, you might have not seen the four new buildings in the north of the city… Otherwise, it is impossible you haven’t done so.
They are the tallest buildings in the city and are in the more elevated area of Madrid, which makes them visible from all over the region, as they are clearly distinguished even when you are 40 or 50 km away. (this picture is from my colleague Jose Carlos… amazing).
As usual, they are involved in a lot of controversy, as not everybody likes this new glass arquitecture. I personally like them quite a lot. I think they give Madrid a new modern icon, which it lacked before, and empowers a modern area, where also a new futuristic congress centre is going to be built in the coming years.