Last weekend I went to the Netherlands for the second time in my life to visit my dear friend J., who works in the Hague. Even if the weather was not great, I had a really good time chatting about so many different topics. On Sunday, since it was a rainy day, we went to the Mauritshuis Museum, which features the famous painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Yesterday, on my way back, I had a two-hour stopover in Amsterdam. In conclusion, I very much enjoyed this weekend :).

Last weekend I visited Strasbourg. I found a cheap flight to Frankfurt and then from there I took a couple of trains to get to that nice French city. Something I had read about and really liked was the "Jardin de deux rives", a shared park between the French and German countries (Strasbourg and Kehl). I had crossed some European frontiers by car before, but this is the first time I have done it by walking back and forth in less than 15 minutes. In this picture I'm looking at Germany from the French side.

The first trip of this year 2010 was to Berlin to visit my aunt and uncle. I'm sorry it was such a short trip because I really liked that city! This time, when I was passing near the Brandenburg Gate, I noticed the path of the former Wall and I followed it all the way to Postdamer Platz where I took this picture. As you can see, it was snowing a lot.

Last weekend I went for the first time to Poland to visit K., and we spent one day together in Warsaw. When we were walking towards the old city center, I spotted this "Cafe Colombia" that actually served authentic Colombian coffee and had some nice pictures and decorations inside (even an "hamaca"). I was ready to be surprised by Warsaw, but the Colombian coffee was not what I was expecting—a nice surprise though :).

Today I realised that I was a really lousy paparazzi :). The story is I went to the IFI (Irish Film Institute) to see the Japanese movie Okuribito (Departures, very good by the way) and then suddenly I saw there were a lot of people taking pictures with flashes. It took me some minutes to realise that they were actually taking pictures of Bono, the lead singer from U2. Instinctively I grabbed my phone and tried to take a picture, and well... you can see the result here... no comments.

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