Alex Little

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Photos from visit to Madrid Zoo and Aquarium the other day….

A few photos from trip to Bilbao this weekend (taken during the 4 seconds it stopped raining!)…

Few photos and GPS track from visits to La Pedriza and Sigüenza last week:

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Have now been in Spain for a little over a year, my Spanish is slowly improving (should probably attempt to write a blog post in Spanish at some point!). If you’d like to learn about Ethiopia in Spanish, this was on TV the other week:

http://www.rtve.es/television/20111130/avance-buscamundos-etiopia-tunel-del-tiempo/479253.shtml

Shows lots of the places I was working in and visited whilst I was there (Mekelle, Wukro, Axum, Gondar, Lalibela). A couple of years ago Españoles en el Mundo broadcast this programme: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/television/espanoles-etiopia–angel/625760/ about Father Ángel, who has been living in Wukro for the last 20+ years, and who we often visit when we’re in Mekelle. One of our projects is based in Wukro.

Photos and tracks from 2 days walking in Cercedilla, Puerto de Navacerrada and Siete Picos….

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Photos and map of circular walk from Cercedilla in Valle de la Fuenfría:

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I spent the last weekend up in the Gredos mountains – fantastic scenery and only couple of hours drive from Madrid. On Saturday we walked from Navalperal de Torres to the Elola Refugio via Cinco Lagunas (approx 9 hours, including time for swim in the lakes), stayed overnight at Elola. On Sunday morning we went up Almonzor and back to the refugio (about 5 1/2 hours), had lunch then back to up to Navalperal (another 6 hours including break for swim in the river).

Hoping to get back there again soon!

At the weekend we went up to the Sierra Guadarrama mountains just outside Madrid for an overnight walk, about 18km staring at 1:30am on Sunday morning and finishing for breakfast at around 8am.

With some very long exposure times (30 seconds+) I managed to get a few reasonable photos…