- Alicante, Spain
2 May '24
“Alicante is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is
the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The
population of the city was 337,482 as of 2020, the second-largest in the
Valencian Community.”
- Valencia, Spain
26 Apr '24
“Valencia is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the
third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023).
It is the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area
comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6
million, constituting one of the major urban areas on the European side of the
Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast
of the Iberian Peninsula at the Gulf of Valencia, north of the Albufera
lagoon.”
- Updates 2024/Q1
21 Mar '24
Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on
the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this
interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.
- A World without Passports
2 Feb '24
According to my
analytics dashboard, there’s a
70% chance you’re reading this on your phone. Maybe at home, or maybe while
commuting to work, using your mobile data connection, for which you’ve
probably signed up on a mobile contract. A contract for which you had to prove
that you are you, likely by showing your national ID or passport. A contract
for which you have to pay regularly, probably using a bank account that you
also had to identify yourself for upon opening.
- Updates 2023/Q4
19 Jan '24
Project updates from the previous consecutive three-month period, with info on
the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this
interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.
- Aruba
31 Dec '20
“Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba is a constituent country of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands physically located in the mid-south of the
Caribbean Sea, about 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of the Venezuelan peninsula
of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Curaçao.”
- Porto, Portugal
7 Nov '20
“Porto or Oporto is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the
Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula’s major urban areas. Porto
city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to
its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,962 people in
a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto’s metropolitan area has around 1.7
million people in an area of 2,395 km2 (925 sq mi), making it the
second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with
a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.”
- Madeira, Portugal
14 Oct '20
“Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira, is one of the two
autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores. It is an
archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as
Macaronesia, just under 400 kilometres (250 mi) to the north of the Canary
Islands and 520 kilometres (320 mi) west of Morocco. Madeira is geologically
located on the African Tectonic Plate, though the archipelago is culturally,
economically and politically European.”
- Trapped on an Island: Coffee with a Moka Pot
29 Mar '20
It’s the stuff that wakes you up in the morning and transforms you from an
obnoxious human being into the lovely person that you are. But what do you do
when you can’t simply get your daily fix from the coffee shop around the
corner?
- Miami, USA
28 Jan '20
“Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a major city and coastal metropolis
located in Miami-Dade County in southeastern Florida. With a population of
442,241, it is the second-most populous city in Florida, the eleventh-most
populous city in the Southeast U.S., and the 44th most populous city in the
nation. Miami is the core of the nation’s ninth largest and world’s 34th
largest metropolitan area with a population of 6.138 million people. The city
has the third largest skyline in the United States with over 300 high-rises,
58 of which exceed 491 ft (150 m).”