The cheapest way to get back to Barcelona was through Singapore, a quite long 14-hour flight. Since Phuket is relatively close to Singapore there are many flights a day connecting the cities so I decided to fly early and spend…
On December 26th I took a flight from Jaipur, India to Phuket in Thailand, making a stop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At the airport I met my very good friend Ilya with whom I’d stay for the next 3 weeks….
I’ve been to chaotic cities in the past, like Beijing or Bangkok, but what I lived in India is something incomparable… I flew from South Africa to Abu Dhabi in the Emirates and took a connecting flight to India’s capital…
A 10-hour flight connects Sao Paulo with Johannesburg in South Africa, one of the few flights connecting Africa with South America. I arrived to a beautiful hostel in a neighborhood full of bars called Maboneng. The staff there where very…
In the morning of December 9th, I took a 2 hour flight from Buenos Aires to Iguazú, a city near the triple border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, and the host for one of the most incredible natural sceneries you…
I arrived to the city of Buenos Aires with a local flight from Mendoza on November 1st. I always chose November for going back to my homeland as the weather there is not too cold and not too hot (spring),…
It was during the Argentinian crisis in 2001 that I started to use a space at home as a workplace for repairing TVs and computer monitors, my house was just full of them after bringing about 10 from a friend’s…
A 3 hour flight connects Lima to Santiago, capital of Chile, the second country in this trip, after Peru, which I hadn’t ever visited before. I spent 3 days at a hostel in the center, with great staff who watched…
A flight from Guayaquil to Lima was quite expensive, and the way by bus is about 28 hours, so I found the fastest and cheapest way was riding a 5-hour bus to the first city in Perú, Tumbes, right next…
I arrived to the city of Guayaquil on the night of October 8th, finally the first Spanish speaking country after a long time. My friends JC and Bernardo picked me up there with a six pack of beers to refresh…
On October 1st I took an AirAsia flight to the city of Honolulu in Hawaii, surely the cheapest flight I’ve ever booked: 100 euros for an 8-hour flight.. Flying from Japan to Honolulu is literally time traveling, I departed Monday…
When I toured Japan last year, I felt Osaka was one of those cities where I could live, and I promise to myself and some friends here that I would come back. So this time I decided to spend 12…
Kyoto and Kanazawa were the 2 most populated Japanese cities during World War 2 by people escaping from bombings in Tokyo. These cities save some of the most beautiful Japanese landscapes and architecture, so they were on my list for…
I arrived to Tokyo in the night of September 6th on an S7 airlines low-cost flight from the city of Irkutsk, Russia. The first thing you have to deal with in Tokyo is the incredibly complicated railway system. They don’t…
Irkutsk is an interesting destination for a number of reasons, but also because It’s airport, located right in the city (only a 15 minute taxi) offers the cheapest connections to most international destinations in Asia. Moreover, I also wanted to…
Before my last concert in Russia, I’d have one spare week where I had not very clear what to do and where to stay. While being in Moscow, I heard stories from a friend about the Olkhon island and got…
The train to Omsk wasn’t too dense, as I was able to sleep half of the trip (about 13 hours long). When I arrived, there were Irina and Alina waiting for me (vocalist and guitarist of Enamorados tango group). I…
It was during last year’s performance with Tangel Trio in the city of Omsk, Russia, where we were surprised about a Tango dancing academy coming to listen to our concert and whom also danced many of the songs we played….
Almost 1 week ago, on August 10th, I took a low cost 2 hour flight from Moscow that saved me the 37 hours of train to get to Ekaterinburg. Arrived in the night and my friend Lilia picked me up…
It was in the second half of July, while I was preparing my program for the Pretrojazz festival, that I got contacted by a person named Andrey Kolyasnikov, suggesting preparing a concert program together with his orquesta “Fantango”. Andrey is…
