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September 14, 2014
I have my blog a bit abandoned. Nowadays with all the social media channels it is hard to continue blogging using self hosted solutions. All your friends are on Facebook, so you post your day to day things related to family and life there. Twitter and Google plus and LinkedIn to share your interests, when […]
October 10, 2013
This interview is extracted from FedOSS , which is a regular podcast with FedScoop’s Luke Fretwell and Red Hat U.S. Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Gunnar Hellekson discussing the latest in federal government open source software. Development Seed’s David Cole discusses “CMS-free websites,” including Jekyll, Prose.io and GitHub and how the new Healthcare.gov will leverage […]
August 27, 2013
Woke up early, had a shower and breakfast at Melià. Left Nuria in bed when I took a taxi to the airport with plenty of time, leaving the hotel at 6:45sm when my flight was at 10 am. Just before rush hour. Got to the airport around 7:15am and the cue on Air Europa was […]
August 26, 2013
Woke up and checked out after having breakfast. Left the bag in the hotel and went for a walk until 1pm when we went back to the hotel to take the bag and call a taxi. 10 nuevos soles to the airport. We arrived at Lima and of course, cloudy. Went to Melia and did […]
August 25, 2013
We are at the end of our trip. We are going to spend the day in Cusco. There is a lot to see here, from the cathedral(s) to walking around and the ruins not too far… We had breakfast at the Marqueses hotel. Nothing spectacular. Beautiful hotel, but nothing special honestly. We went out […]
August 24, 2013
We were checking out today from the nice quiet Apu Lodge in Ollantaytambo. We took it easy, had a marvellous breakfast (eggs, fruit, cereals, bread…) and then the plan was to hire a taxi for both of us to take us to Cusco, but doing all the Sacred Valley in the way so we […]
August 23, 2013
Yesterday we went to bed early. We did not have dinner because we were full with a very nice lunch in a pretty restaurant (Tawa Chaki). Our train 81 was boarding at 5:40am so, we woke up at 5 took the takeaway breakfast that the hotel prepared for us, and walked to the station. I […]
August 22, 2013
At 4am the bus arrived at Cuzco. We took a taxi to where the colectivos to Ollantaytambo departures. For 10 soles each we took it and at 6am we were in Ollantaytambo. Here is where we are now that I am trying to catch up with the blog. Many days without Internet and even […]
August 21, 2013
At 6am Rosa, who barely spoke Spanish, woke us up. We had breakfast and descended to the boat. We headed to the more turistic island Taquile. There again we climbed and made a trekking around the island. We had lunch on a lovely place. I ordered fish and the local beer and it was […]