Nordic Adventure

I realize it's a bit late to tell you about the trip we did during Easter to Sweden and Norway, but the reason is that I didn't get the pictures until recently. I didn't wanna write and write about what we did and how much we enjoyed our time over there without presenting you some photos.

As many of us are working already and now free days start to be rare, we need to use every holiday to get out of Pamplona. So that's what we did. We took three days off and made a ten days vacation. I'm not gonna go into much detail about the itinerary and what we did in each place, just mention. However, I really want to comment a little bit about the highlight of the trip (there were a lot of anecdotes, like when we almost got arrested, but those are not as important as this one), which is the three days we spent in Kiruna.




Kiruna is a small town in the Northest part of Sweden. We went there by plane and then came back by train (in which we had a rave, I mean, we didn't sleep much because we kept meeting crazy people ready to party). Anyway, the thing is that up there we did an excursion to a remote area by both snowmobile and dogsled. We spent the night near a frozen river in a small hut and living next to a pretty weird Inuit (I believe that's the right name for the native people of that region). He was in charge of the tiny camp and cooked us reindeer twice. Well, it was an unforgettable experience I'll always remember. Oh, and I almost forgot, we also visited the Ice Hotel, which is located near Kiruna and which is astonishing.







Before we had been in Stockholm, really beautiful city. And there I met up with Marie, my Swedish friend whom I hadn't seen since our last reunion in Vienna. After Kiruna we headed down again and visited Aitor, our friend who is studying over there his master degree. He is living in Gavle, a small and nice city in which the party is granted, even in a dorm basement, hehe. And from there we went to our final destination, Oslo, which is also nice but I just didn't like it as much as the others. For me, personally, Sweden was better than Norway, but that's just my opinion.

My flights

The other day I discovered this amazing website. I know some of you might think is silly but I really love it. Basically it enables you to enter all the flights you have taken in your life, so that you can keep the record and create statistics, as well as maps with those flights. Here are my statistics and maps. I encourage you to create your own too.

http://my.flightmemory.com/Abarcia

And the website is:

http://www.flightmemory.com/

Enjoy!!!

Annyunghaseyo!

Hello my friends. I came back from South Korea about two weeks ago and I can tell you it was one of the best experiences of my life so far. I had to go there for work reasons, but saved some free days for discovering as well.



I had to give a one week training in a really rural and small town called Yeongyang. That's where the wind farm is located. And that's where I experience the real Korea. I tried really different food, ate sitting on the floor, became an expert in the use of chopsticks... but most importantly, met great people. Everyone working there was so welcoming and honest that you could not avoid falling for them. They treated me like I was someone important but always with this charm and closeness that made me feel at home. And that I truely appreciate.




The training was a complete success, and I was completely pleased with how it went. I believe people learnt, at least something. But I'm sure, some of the forty students there understood and enjoyed most of it. What I know for sure is that I enjoyed giving the training and that I had a great time with them. Although I was exhausted by the end of the week, after talking 8 hours for 5 days, non-stop.





When the training was over I went to Seoul for four days, so that I could visit the city before heading back to Spain. There, I met some Korean friends I made in Barcelona during the weekend we went to The Killers concert. We didn't know each other very well since we had only spoken for like ten minutes, but we soon got confident and had a great time. So basically, my days in Seoul consisted on sightseeing, going out and catching up with some friends. Well, and of course meeting new people, but that's out of the question, hehe.





Oh, I almost forgot. I know Julen and Mauro are gonna love this one. I went to the North Korea - South Korea border, sneaked into one of the infiltration tunnels the North koreans built... Isn't that exotic?