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Happy birthday to me

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Today, Wednesday 19th of July, I turn 34. This year that now ends has been very good indeed for me, and I cannot but expect the coming year to be even better. A great thanks to all the people [...]

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Roberto in El Mundo

This Sunday, El Mundo, one of Spain’s largest dailies, features an interview with me in its Sunday technology supplement Ariadna.
Unfortunately the interview doesn’t seem to be available in the online edition of the supplement, so I’ll have to wait until I arrive in Spain later today to read it and let you know if it’s [...]

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Spain out of the world Cup

Expected though it may have been, it still came as a blow to see Spain play with so little drive, and let the match slip from them without as much as hint of trying to reverse their fortunes.
Spanish newspaper El Pa

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Driving holiday in Spain

Katia and I took some time off and went for a driving holiday in Spain. We had planned to land in Madrid, drive an hour to Valladolid to attend the Valladolid Latino festival and then slowly crawl our way around Palencia, Salamanca and finally Bilbao. As usual, flight bookings were left for the last minute [...]

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Chestnut Sunday

No international travel last weekend: instead, we went to Chestnut Sunday in Bushy Park. It sounded like a good day out and we hadn’t seen George and Nina for ages, so we picked a couple of good bottles of wine and jumped in the car to drive down to Hampton Wick.
The parade was a bit [...]

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Great Easter and a new seat at work

Easter in Benidorm can be a bit of a hit and miss affair. You can never be sure whether you’ll bake peacefylly at the beach or soak under gelid pouring rain. This time, it was neither.
I arrived there Friday night. It was a bit of a chilly night and, after a spot of dinner at [...]

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