Yo.
The fam was here all weekend (Thursday - Monday, and if that ain't what weekends are in the summertime, I'll be your aunt Fanny), so I was offline for yet another few days. At this point, you'd be forgiven for thinking I had a life outside of the internet sometimes. You'd be wrong, but you'd be forgiven for thinking so. I don't.
Anyway, just for gits and shiggles, I took a screen shot of my "Aug11 to do" list (made up in Excel while I was on the road and constantly added to throughout the weeks since) and it looks absurd, so I figured it would fit right in on Clapboard. I'll try to remember to post another shot of this thing at the end of the month or the beginning of September, and hopefully you'll see it covered in blue, which is my "it's done!" color.
Also. The rumors of Clapboard's demise are greatly exaggerated. The rumors of the death of a switch powering same are not. Those second rumors are true.
After Barcelona (which was every bit as cool as I remembered it, btw), we went up to San Sebastian. The drive wasn't too long and we got there in plenty of time to go to the beach and get me heartily sunburned. It was hard not to be sunburned when there were so many topless girls on the beach - how do you leave? The picture on the left is one that was sent to me by one of the guys that had no qualms about taking pictures of random chicks on nude beaches (not me) and cropped by someone with basic photoshop skills (me). What you can't see in this picture is that I really had a good reason to be sunburned. I promise.
I'm in Barcelona at the moment, checking my emails and generally getting caught back up on the world since I've been offline the last few days. We did a 14-hour ride and an 18-hour ride separated only by a show day in Brugge (Bruges?), so I spent longer on the bus getting to and from the place than in the place itself.
I made it to Athens, survived the 4-shows-in-5-days nonsense and managed to spend a couple hours this morning at the top of the hill in the Acropolis. It's small enough to wander all over and shoot photos even in a couple hours. The part of Athens that's right around the base of the hill is really picturesque, actually, and probably worth a walk back this evening for dinner. We'll see.
