People we've met

Portraits from people we've met on the road. From humans we've met through camping out at the coast over night, through friends, through Couchsurfing, through the Internet in general, through campsites and first and foremost through curiosity and a open mind. For so long weve didn't touched these pictures but there are so many memories attached to those portraits that we finally wanted to have them somewhere to look back at.

These are all people we've met during our first big roadtrip through europe and a lot of great and wonderful memories are linked with them.

White Valencia

Close to Valencia we found a Family for Couchsurfing. Heidi, Juan and Pau welcomed us warmly from the begining. We stayed there for 3 nights and at our last day Joan cooked us a real Paella which was amazing.

From there we took the subway into the city and found that beautiful station called Alameda. After a nice walk through a park we explored the City of Arts and Sciences near the harbor.

We had a great time in Valencia. Thanks again to our hosts for the great hospitality and a wonderful time.

Black Madrid

Just a few shots from Madrid, where we’ve been walking around this huge and impressive city with a mass of people for two days from corner to corner, where we met Michael, who showed us around one day with some nice conversations and a beer at the Jambon Museum.

uno…dos…tres…

Spain was the next country after Gibraltar. First song we heard on the radio entering the highway was this song probably everybody knows… Don’t remember the words but is was something like „Un! Dos! Tres! Somethinginspanish Maria!“

Arrived in Marbella, we found the house of our next Couchsurfinghost. Serge is a guy from Belgium living there for several years. Marbella represents the luxury cliché, which is absolutely true. All luxury goods are represented at the harbor…

We spent two nights at his „Couch“ (actually we had his bedroom, which was pretty nice. Thank you Serge!) First day we had some drinks with him at a Finca and a chinese dinner afterwards.

The very next day we had again some drinks at the harbor and a very nice dinner at Tkius with even more drinks.

After two days with a lot of laughs and drinks drinks drinks we said goodbye. On the way to Madrid we mad a short stop at Málaga and slept one night next to Granada.

Gibraltar

It was time this morning to leave Portugal. We went through Spain to Gibraltar. Christof has arranged a place to sleep via Couchsurfing which was great. We’ve allowed us to spend 3 nights there.

However we were some nervous and also curious what was comming up on our first Couchsurfingexperience. Nicky, our host was a nice and funny man, born in Colombia, grew up in London, adopted by a family from Gibraltar.

There were already two other Couchsurfers in his house, Emilio from Argentina and Lorena from Valencia. This couple traveled through the world for the last 5 years. A lovely couple, real nomads, we are far away from that.

Gibraltar is something special. It is United Kingdom or something entirely own. Actually, it’s both. The border between Spain and Gibraltar is so surreal. Even the airport is a challenge, not only for the pilots. The runway crosses the main road which is also the entrance and border to the city. Unbelievable.

The interesting thing about Gibraltar is really the history of this 6,5 square kilometer thing on Earth. Spain, GB… Moors, Arabs etc all lived here and left traces.

Then there are the monkeys of Gibraltar. This funny and cheeky animals are something like a tourist magnet. But please do not feed them or take food with you on the mountain. They can become pretty annoying and aggressive then.

We went up the rock with Emilio and Lorena. It took us over 2 hours to the top of the mountain from which you can enjoy a wonderful view and look over in good weather even on Morocco.