Thanks to Chris at the Amateur Traveler podcast for deeming me interviewable! You can hear me talking to him about the India trip in last Sunday’s episode here. AT is a great podcast with travel news and views from around the world.
Hopefully the next Notes from Spain will be out tomorrow, sorry for the wait! Meanwhile we’ve uploaded a new Notes in Spanish podcast en español, claro.
Notes from Spain received a small mention today in the New York Times ‘Spring Travel’ magazine (also on-line, see ‘Pod Potatoes’ half-way down this page).
If you have just checked out Notes from Spain for the first time as a result, then welcome! You can find a list of previous episodes here, or ask any questions you like about podcasting or Spain in our forum.
There’s a brand new Spanish cuisine podcast from Marina over at our sister site cuisinefromspain.com.
And don’t forget to join the all new Notes from Spain community forum (read about it in the post below!) 🙂
We thought it was about time to start a Notes from Spain community forum, to share all our (and your!) thoughts and questions on Spain. The idea is to make a wealth of information easy to find, searchable, and above all, open to input from all you other ‘Spainophiles’ out there on the net.
We really hope you’ll use it to put questions on Spain to us and the community, to share YOUR travel notes from Spain, to comment on Marina’s cuisine, and praticar tu español!
Head on over and check it out, and don’t forget to pop in from time to time to see what’s going on! (Remember to register in order to post and reply.)
We have finally got round to a complete overhaul of booksonspain.com – about time too!
Having paid 30 bucks to get my book, Errant in Iberia, listed on Amazon.com, it would be really useful for it to have a review. I could take the sneaky route and write one myself under a pseudonym, but I think that would be kind of dishonest… So, if any of you have actually read it, would you mind taking 2 minutes to add a quick review to the amazon.com site? Click here to get to the page.
Many many thanks in advance, Ben
OK, so this is Notes from Spain, and we are going to get back to podcasting from Spain just as soon as we can. Right after we get back from one more trip to Oxford this weekend! Plus, keep an eye out for a couple of exciting new projects in the pipeline. Let’s just say there’ll be more in Spanish and a lot more on food!
Until then, one last pic from India: phoning Spain from the backpackers paradise of Palolem Beach (photo by my father). What a place to make a call! Did you hear the India podcast yet? Or see the photos?
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A couple for the bikers… UPDATE: Click here to see all the photos.
Y aqui en (terrible) español, ¡para mi foro motero favorito!
For the last two weeks or so, I had been thinking that I wanted to see the film GANDHI by Richard Attenborough again. Coincidence or not, two or three nights ago I was at my parents and what film was on telly that night? GANDHI. But even more funny was what Ben asked me yesterday when he phoned me from Heathrow airport: “Do you know what film I saw on the plane back from India?” For me there was no doubt, it had to be GANDHI… and it was.
There are two things that fascinate me from the film. India; its people, its culture, its history and of course Gandhi himself; his way of thinking based on non-violient resistance and his persistance. I find him really inspiring. If you want to know more about Gandhi, apart from the film which is superb, I would recommend his autobiography called “The story of my experiments with truth”.
Anyway, I’ll be picking Ben up from Madrid airport in a couple of hours, I’m sure he will have more books & films to recommend to put his India podcast in perspective.
Take care,
— Marina.
I have completed the 2006 Enduro India Rally! 2,000 km around rural Southern India in 2 weeks (11 days riding), on a classic Royal Enfield motorbike – and, despite the most appalling (sorry, interesting) local driving techniques on the planet, I am still in one piece! It has been an amazing adventure, the hardest thing I have ever done, and one of the most rewarding. Thanks again to all those that supported me, you’ll be hearing all about it when I get back and have time to edit the podcast (I’m back in Spain on Saturday 4th)
What I can say is that India is the most amazing country I have ever had the pleasure to visit, with the most radiantly friendly people I have ever encountered. If you have ever thought of doing anything like this, then all I can say is just do it! No more excuses – make a commitment to take that trip, to live in that country for a while, to start that business, to take on whatever challenge you have been procrastinating about for years… believe me, as cliched as it might sound, there is a lot to be said for living your dreams…
Notes from Spain by Ben Curtis 