Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jan 30, 2012, 3:58 am
Art Nouveau lamps on Alexandre III bridge, Grand Palais in the back, Paris, december 2011.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jan 23, 2012, 4:28 am
I'm not much into blogging these days, for no particular reason other than I thought I'd catch up with my writings. I have not written any book during this time, though. While I figure out how to get back into shape, let me share the list for this month's top droppers through Entrecard. Thank ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jan 13, 2012, 4:12 pm
Hôtel de Ville square, Paris (France), december 2011. Just posting a two-storey merry-go-round to celebrate that today is my birthday. I never thought my blog would be one day full of photos of Paris :)
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jan 9, 2012, 3:43 am
Being used to Spanish museums, where you are not allowed to take pictures even with the flash off, to the point you are chased by security guards as soon as they see you taking out the camera, it is understandable that whenever I enter a museum in a foreign country, as was the case...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Dec 31, 2011, 6:14 am
Yesterday evening we arrived from our Christmas trip to Paris. I'll talk about the wonderful time we spent there in upcoming posts; this is just a quick update to congratulate you on the new year and wish you happiness, joy, and fantastic journeys. Of course, I can't help but share a fir...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Dec 23, 2011, 3:16 am
This is my Anti-Crisis card for this year. I hope the Government does not find the snowflake too excessive. Have a very nice Christmas. See you in a week, after my trip to Paris! Joyeux Noël à tous.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Dec 14, 2011, 3:56 am
I'm posting the remaining pictures from our last trip before embarking on the next one this Christmas. Earlier this year, my family and I landed Seville, Southern Spain, at the same time as the first heat wave of the Andalusian summer. This sort of awning i...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Dec 10, 2011, 6:39 am
Since the mid seventies, when democracy came in Spain after forty years of gray and long postwar period, one of the things that mark the beginning of Christmas in Catalonia is Freixenet TV commercial campaign. This brand is a champagne producer located in Catalonia, the largest one in the main...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Dec 9, 2011, 3:34 am
I wonder if we will ever hear good news again about finances. Not so many years ago, when the financial crisis affecting Argentina was in the news every day, we never thought that something like that could happen in our country whatsoever. Nowadays, the Spanish banks do not pass the European B...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Dec 8, 2011, 4:00 am
For the first time ever, a film in Catalan has been shortlisted for the Oscars. We can't be more cheerful about it — although the final five nominees are yet to be announced, and Pa negre is a tearjerker. It was directed by Agustí Villaronga and it...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Nov 25, 2011, 4:14 am
Estany d'Ivars i Vila-sana (Lleida, Catalonia), summer 2011. Many things go on when supposedly nothing happens; this could be the caption of this photo. If in need of inspiration, the benefits of boredom are countless and as a writer, all I need is a seemingly endless unproductive time. I...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 28, 2011, 2:14 am

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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 27, 2011, 2:01 pm
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Net10. All opinions are 100% mine. Let me share the latest info about Net10 Unlimited for cell phones without a contract, that is to say, with no surprise bills and no credit checks. This is how the Net10 service works: activate ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 21, 2011, 2:37 am
Stork photographed on our walk around the pond. Visit more Skywatch Friday participants.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 15, 2011, 5:17 am
As I explained last year in my Anti-Halloween post, All-Saints Day festivity in Catalonia is about having a good meal — a very, ultra sweet one, and it actually takes its name from the meal itself, the Castanyada (the Feast of Chestnuts!). So, instead of horror videos or kids in ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 10, 2011, 2:25 am
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 4, 2011, 4:43 pm
As I have no news about my book, I will talk about work: I'm currently proofreading two books. One of them, dealing with Death Metal, is written by a professor with a degree in art history who approaches the subject with all due respect — fifty hundred pages full of related words such as grind whi...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 3, 2011, 3:19 pm
Castell del Remei (Lleida, Catalonia). Visit more Yellow Monday participants.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 30, 2011, 3:47 pm
Andrea had glazed eyes. Robert understands it all, she had said. The voices were growing weak, infirm, as if after echoing from various angles of the house had met again behind the door. Robert had slept a while, but something, footsteps on the gravel of the yard or the noise...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 28, 2011, 4:40 pm
This weekend we took a walk around the pond of Ivars i Vila-sana (Lleida, Catalonia). It was dried for farming use during the twentieth century and refilled in the nineties as claimed by the neighbours for long years.The pond was filled with a one-year irrigation water quota used in the fields it no...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 24, 2011, 5:34 am
"[Her existence] will be changed forever by a whimsical decision of hers. But did she have a choice to act in any other fashion? Or wasn't she somehow predestined to do what she's about to do?" I've been lucky enough to have the chance to read Miss Otis regrets and Other Short Sto...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 14, 2011, 4:55 am
Building an Andalusian balcony is no laughing matter. Visit more Wordless Wednesday participants.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 5, 2011, 4:09 am
It is the first green carnation I have ever seen. When I ordered it online, I thought it was red. I felt free to make a Yellow Monday post with it.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 1, 2011, 3:24 pm
I'm sharing more photos from our trip to Seville. Seville is full of orange trees, and when we first arrived there we couldn't believe that there were oranges all over the ground in every street, among parked cars and sideways. And no one seemed to care about them!  Locals t...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 29, 2011, 4:01 am
This post brought to you by ampm. All opinions are 100% mine.     The convenience store ampm has launched a giveaway through their Facebook site, the Too Much Good Stuff giveaway. By registering to the Instant Win Game, which c...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 28, 2011, 4:53 am
I'm having a busy comeback after my vacation, with many blogs to catch up with, books to review, my own new book to edit, and, well, my work at work. Even the sponsored writing offers seem to feel ready to come back to school, as I got more this week than ever before. But for today I just thought I ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 27, 2011, 10:04 am
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Straight Talk for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I've always had a cell phone without a contract since the day I was given the first one as a gift. I could have changed it back then, as mom bought it only because it was easier for h...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 24, 2011, 5:13 am
Photo taken last june in Seville. I hope it helps to ease the heat. Wordless Wednesday.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 20, 2011, 9:18 am
I almost forgot to inform you that I am on vacation, which has happened to be a hot topic in this blog right from the beginning. Due to the financial crisis, we're doing what apparently are doing all Catalans: stay home and discover Catalonia. Proof of this is that our cities are not empty in ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 15, 2011, 9:38 am
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 10, 2011, 9:55 am
Last saturday we saw for the first time a colla de castellers - group of builders of human towers - performing live. The Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls is, among the sixty colles de castellers existing in Catalonia and Balearic Islands, one of the oldest ones, dating back from 1801. Each group we...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 7, 2011, 12:10 pm
Everything went as expected yesterday evening. We arrived early to the village hosting the literary award giving event, Vilabella, which was in full summer festivities. We had time enough to enjoy some of them, take a drink, and make our own discover of the village. This is how it went. Vilabella is...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 4, 2011, 4:14 pm
Soon I will be posting more news about my novella and, hopefully, talking about the experience of becoming a published author. By now, let me share this Intel project that allow us to transform our photos and Facebook contacts into a virtual museum gallery. The Museum of Me is a tool that collects o...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 27, 2011, 2:25 am
A museum in Seville. Visit more Wordless Wednesday participants.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 23, 2011, 5:16 am
I never thought this could happen: yesterday, a week after the death of my father, I received a call letting me know that my novella has won the contest in which I submitted it and, as a result, it will be my first published work. "Now, you must open a bottle of champagne and celebrate it", s...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 16, 2011, 4:36 pm
My father, Ricard, passed away this week at the age of 64 after a struggle against cancer. This blog will remain silent for several days and I hope to come back with renewed strength.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 11, 2011, 4:01 am
Yellow Monday.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 6, 2011, 2:39 am
Cover of a magazine photographed in an exhibition before the relaxed Andalusian guard saw me. Visit more Wordless Wednesday participants.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 3, 2011, 4:22 am
After reading the reports from our trip to Seville posted by my holiday mates on their blogs, full of info and photos, I realized that I wanted to do the same, so off we go to Andalusia. My eight years old niece, Júlia, at Barcelona airport in front of the mural made by painter Joan Miró. Júlia g...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 1, 2011, 2:35 am
Portrait My childhood is memories of a patio in Seville and a sunny yard with lemons turning ripe, my youth twenty years in lands of Castile, my story certain matters I don't care to recite. Antonio MACHADO, "Portrait" (fragment), included in Selected Poems, translated ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jun 24, 2011, 5:12 am
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jun 22, 2011, 3:29 am
Sources: CruceroGuía and Todocolección. This is a second clue following my previous post.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jun 20, 2011, 2:47 pm
Next week my family and I will spend four days in the city where the poet Luis Cernuda was born. This is the poetic clue I will give you for now. The prosaic one is Olé! Affliction One day he figured it out: His arms were only clouds— With clouds it is impossible To clasp...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jun 15, 2011, 2:36 am
... But a marigold. In Catalan we call it clavell de moro (Moorish carnation). Visit more Wordless Wednesday participants.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jun 11, 2011, 5:02 am
Working outdoors was not always so bad. From time to time in the early morning, I could hear some thunder rumblings in the distance as a summer storm approached the Plain. We never went to pick fruit when it rained, not even when the weather was only threatening. We were a small group of local...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jun 8, 2011, 2:51 am
Do you know its name? I gave up guessing. Visit more Wordless Wednesday participants.
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jun 5, 2011, 7:37 am
Has any of you heard of OmmWriter? Some days ago I learned that it was developed by a Catalan independent creative agency, so I wanted to give it a try. OmmWriter is a text editor created with the purpose that you focus only in writing. When you open it all you see is a large white scree...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - May 31, 2011, 3:08 am
Two years ago, I began to write in what seemed to be yet another blog that would last at most one week, as happened with the few blogs that I created before (and the ones I created later on). What makes this blog different from these attempts is that one day someone left a comment here. That day thi...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - May 29, 2011, 7:18 am
Wembley Way, yesterday afternoon. Source: Guardian.co.uk. I'm not a soccer fan, but I could become one after yesterday's Champions League final. Catalan team F. C. Barcelona won it against Premiership winner Manchester United by 3-1 in a a well-refereed, fair-play match at Wembley Stadium, Lon...
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