家

赶昨晚的火车下到了巴塞罗那。今天是 十月四号。我还有三个月才能回家。归心似箭啊。。。

或许你无法明白，我自己也说不出。在外久了你就想家。是乱糟糟的，但就是家。

早前会和人争得脸红耳赤，大家都企图说服对方。马来西亚华人该对这块土地付诸于多少的情感？这里是旅者(immigrant)的中途站吗？我不知道能否在这次旅程里找到答案。或许我早已知道了。

我本来就不把这次的‘出走’当成是旅游。每当我走到了新地方，我不由自主地就会将我所见所闻和马来西亚做对比。 Not to say I am good in historical or social anology, but that's me.

两个礼拜下来，第一次在外头见到马来西亚人。对方一大团从英国来，是往英国修学去的拉曼生。和我一样是要归家的游子。与我所遇见的巴西、墨西哥、法国、英美、德、瑞士人比较，虽没能和对方谈得更愉快，但那种亲切感是难以形容的。

耳边听的是 Take That，身处异国，心却早已归家了。

Toledo, Spain

Toledo, Spain. Yet another UNESCO World Heritage Site, though I have to say this little medieval town is badly crippled with many tourist shops.

There is no other place in Spain you can get lost so easily. It is just like many other Jews quarters. Take a stroll in these places, it is amasing to see, feel and get a chance to appreciate how Jews thrive and survive for centuries of oppresion, through and through.

马德里，西班牙

从马德里宏伟的邮局（叫邮便皇宫。怪的是马德里的旅游指示牌都有日文）往下走，是Gran Via

马德里似乎没有小房子。他们的建筑都是一个样子，是要营造人渺小的错觉。

塞维利亚，西班牙

Baths of Lady María de Padilla, Alcazar of Seville

没有英文解说，该如何去体验这个世界文化遗产？这里有个小贴士。
找个说英文的旅团，跟大队就是了。反正她也赶你不走。有点像牛和苍蝇的关系。^^
我就是这样。

塞维利亚，西班牙

塞维利亚的斗牛场入口。和 Robert 一起逛它的博物馆。
事后两人大吐口水，都认同在这里我们遇过了最为差劲的导游和解说员。

说她是单调的播音器也不为过。

Museums in Madrid

Without english translation, walking in museums in Madrid aimlessly isn't what I really like to do. I believe their Ministry of culture still have a lot more to do. It is the same for all other museums I had visited in the past two weeks or so. To know english alone isn't enough to make your day in Europe, seriously.

But when I stumble into one Robert Capa's work at the Museum of National Library today, I do realise sometime things like photo carry message that transcend barrier of languge. It really does.

Anyway, that still doesn't solve the problem. You don't get your head around about anything after paying for museum entrance since virtually nothing is in english I think it's pretty bad thing.

Seville, Spain

The Cathedral

拍照

我是新手，你看照片就懂。你看到的，还是再筛选后的结果。

前些日子还兴致勃勃自修摄影入门，但三分钟热度的我，书可是越翻越少。看他的书和相片集，你会嘴合不拢。

反正现在是临时抱佛脚就是了。

就是搞不懂，自动夜景模式的效果，就是比全手动效果来得好。当然我没带相机脚架，我没办法尝试慢快门的效果。这或许是原因之一吧。

在出发前整理背包时，曾想过要把老古董 praktica 胶片相机带上，最后当然是选择放弃了。

我不想相机成为压死我这瘦骆驼最后一根草。

后悔？有一点点啦。

法罗，葡萄牙 （3）

法罗，葡萄牙 （2）

比例不均，但我不想改。

法罗，葡萄牙

旅行

就是走

不停的移动

这也是一种乐趣

你永远不知道，接下来的未来是什么

Update my itinerary and some bits and bobs

Porto, Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal
Faro, Portugal
Seville, Spain
Madrid, Spain

This is my third night in Madrid.

Folks, if you wish to stay in Madrid, look no other place than Pop hostel. I got a 2-bed room for the price of 6-bed mixed dorm, with individual bathroom, hot shower, WiFi. With 14 Euro is the by far the best hostel I ever live in.

Madrid is famous for, well, it depends. For one thing, for me it's still small enough to cover the city by foot. You can actually save your metro (10 trips cost ?6.4 euro) for flamenco. La Carboneria in Seville is free and I guess must be well recommended in travel book (yes it's in my lonely planet book), it's packed with travellers. You hardly see any locals. Still it's worthy to spend an hour there.

Madrid's metro is clean and quite easy to navigate, as compared to London's tube. Hmm, I like to see our's is as good as those.

Having only live two days in Madrid, I think Spanish really like monuments, like British lah... ... You got 88 monuments in Madrid city centre alone, that's what I will call obsession. No offence, my spanish friends. He said monument helps strengthen the community, that's all.

Will try to upload some photos asap.