This page is a work-in-progress about my experiences; all those amazing things I have been fortunate enough to live and would like to share, because everything is so much better if shared 😍
Maybe one day I will write about them… in the meantime they are the substrate from which my novels feed.
When I was a little girl 👩🦰, I dreamt of travelling the world 🌍 and ‘live extraordinary experiences’ ✨. To this day, I continue with the same illusion and curiosity.
And, most of all, I am thankful for having the opportunity to be on this journey. Because, as Mark Twain put it, “Happiness is the journey, not the destination”.
Travel memories
- Run (and win) a half marathon in Antarctica!
- Cross the Himalayas by road, passing by Everest’s camp base, and visiting Budist temples.
- Enter Lhasa, in Tibet, and marvel at the Potala Palace.
- Fly over the the skeleton coast in Namibia.
- See a 3D cat in a billboard in Shinjuku.
- Sleep in the red dunes of the Namib Desert.
- Go down a tunnel excavated under the DMZ zones between the two Koreas
- Smell the penetrating odor of a Seals colony in Namibia
- Run on Greenland’s Ice cap.
- Cruise through Icebergs in Illulisat.
- See the “Big Five” in the Kruger National Park.
- Pet lions in Zimbawe.
- Travel in Moscow’s monumental metro.
- See Lenin statues and feel like in Soviet times in Transnitria.
- Ride a motorbike in chaotic Vietnam.
- Walk amongst a penguin colony in Antartica continent.
- Crusie amongst icebergs in the Antarctic Ocean and cool my drink with ice a thousand years old.
- Sleep at the feet of Mount Kilimanjaro surrounded by wild fauna.
- Enter the Mission Control in Houston Space Center.
- See the only remaining Apollo rocket and marvel at its size.
- Cruise the Nile and not witness a murder.
- Attend an Conventual Mass for Easter in the hystorical church of Santa Maria de Poblet Monastery.
- Enjoy a safari in the Serengeti.
- Drive the Sanni Pass in Lesotho.
- Fly over the mythical Victoria Falls.
- Cross the Grand Canyon with a helipcopter ride.
- Celebrate Xmas with a campfire in the dunes of the Namib.
- Cruise the amazing islands of Ha Long Bay.
- Go up the Eiffel Tower at day, and at night.
- Sleep in the Amazon Jungle in Brazil.
- Visit one, two and even three times the Louvre.
- Pet leopards in a sanctuary in Namibia.
- Visit one, two and even three times the National Gallery.
- Enter a Sojuz space capsulle in the ESA museum in Tolouse.
- See the Twelve Apostles in the south coast of Australia.
- Reflect on the horror humans can cause in Austwich concentration camp in Poland.
- Go up the twin Petrona Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
- Travel around Japan with Shinkansen trains.
- Go on a boat ride where the Black and the Solimões rivers meet to become the Amazon river, in Brazil.
- See a movie in a theather in Los Angeles.
- See the Mount Fuji in all its splendor from our window.
- See the magnificent royal palace of Abu Dhabi from a skyscrapper.
- Visit, and “escape” the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco.
- Spend hours driving through the desert to reach Muscat in Oman.
- Dress like Santa Claus to run a Sao Silvestre in Lisbon.
- See the World Trade Center busy and vibrant before the tragic September 11th.
- Swim in the Amazon river.
- Run in one of the “beaches” in Thailand that inspired the book and the movie.
- Swim in the icy waters of the Antartic Ocean!
- See the canyons of imaginary planets from “Star Wars” in the border of Tunis and Argelia.
- Eat Betlem Pastries in the original shop in San Jeronimo.
- Visit the memorial sites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Sleep in Ryokans in the Japanese countryside.
- Cross the Magellan Channel from Ushuaia to Antartica by boat.
- Eat Korean Barbacue in front of the Hwaseong Fortress.
- See the cherry trees blossoming in Japan.
- Live, eat and travel like a local in Koh Samui.
- Fly an aeroplane.
- Pass under and get drenched in the Iguazú Falls.
- See the Asuan dam.
- See the Hoover dam.
- Visit the ancient ruins of Troy, Rome and Carthage.
- Visit a cold rainforest in Australia.
- Do Yoga on the rooftop of the Hotel Ritz.
- See the stars in a massive telescope in Atacama desert in Chile.
- Cross running the Brandenburg gate to finish the Berlin marathon.
- See the mighty Waterfall of the Gods in Iceland.
- Have afternoon tea in the Ritz in London.
- Drink matcha tea while watching the famous Shibuya crossing in Tokyo.
- Run the New York Marathon and listen to Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York”.
- Dive in the Great Barrier Reef.
- Parachute jumping from a plane.
- See “The mouse trap” play, by Agatha Christie in London.
- Walk through the Moais on Easter Island.
- See whales in the Artic Ocean in Iceland.
- See the Aurora Borealis in Greenland.
- Run over a frozen Lake in Norway.
- Cross the border from Moldavia to a country that does not exist, Transnitria.
- Cycle through painted monasteries of Romania.
- Cycle amonst the mogotes in Cuba.
- Walk as a pilgrim the “Camino de Santiago”.
- Drive the legendary Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles.
- Gamble and see a David Cooperfield show in Las Vegas.
- Find the SkyWalker farm in the middle of the Sahara desert in Tunisia.
- Go up the World’s tallest building, the burj El-Khalifa, in Dubai.
- Eat in the best restaurant in the World, “El celler de Can Roca”.
- Take part in a comunist demonstration in front of Fidel and Raul Castro in La Havana.
- Take part in the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in London.
- Attend the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
- Attend the 2014 London Olympic Games.
- See 7 consecutive FIFA World Cups: France 1998, Japan 2002, Germany 2006, SouthAfrica 2010, Brazil 2014, Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022.
- See a broadway play in New York, “The Phantom of the Opera”.
- See an NBA match in Madison Square Garden.
- Work for a few days in one of India’s software delivery centres in Phune.
- See my first book published. “El Club de los Acontecimientos Extraordinarios”, by Editorial Endira.
- And live and work as an IT professional in such different places like Barcelona, London, Geneva, Paris or Denver in the United States…
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