Impressions of some of the people hanging around in Cádiz…
they too were a reason why i loved that town so much: these people all looked so relaxed…
even the ones sitting by the church@ 
Cádiz – 2 – (Travel Sketches Spain 2009)
July 28, 2009 — Miki
Another of my many sketches from Cadiz on the first day…
Cádiz (Travel Sketches Spain 2009)
July 27, 2009 — Miki
In my previous entry I wrote about my intention to work on my travel sketch series Summer 2009 and to publish them. However I was interrupted by an awful event which took place in our town and all around, one day after our arrival: a huge fire went all over the places, over an extend of more than 10 kilometres, and we really thought we would lose everything we have, including, of course, all my paintings!
But the wind blew the fire away in another direction and we lost nothing, except, perhaps, the wonderful feeling of being safe at home !
But really, what a trauma to assist to such a fire, one deeply realises how powerless we are against Nature…
So, after all these emotions, I am trying to come back to work now. After the short stop in Gibtaltar, we spent our first days in Cadiz, Andalucia, on the Atlantic South Coast of Spain. I knew Cadiz already, but to rediscover it with Kevin was wonderful and we both fell in love with that town. Great architecture, great atmosphere, great beaches, great street cafes, great people… one told us later though, that sometimes el viento de Levante (the Levante Wind) blows there for a long time and makes people get crazy… I am glad that it was not the case as we were there, first because we are already crazy enough, and then because we had parked our Boomobile at the outskirts from the town in front of the sea, and rode everyday bicyvle to the down. I love to ride bicycle, but certainly not against a strong wind!
I made quite a lot of sketches in Cadiz, this is the first of them…
Back home in Turre (Almeria, Spain)
July 23, 2009 — Miki
So, I am finally back from my sketching trip through Spain and Portugal, after a final visit to my family who had gathered at our other house close to Alicante, arriving from several parts of the world. I am gad to be back home, everything is fine here, a little bit too hot perhaps, with that wind blowing from the Sahara across the Mediterranean Sea.
As always I spent a good part of the trip sketching. I will regularly present you here sketches from the places where we have been, although, due to some technical problems with our Boomobile, we haven’t been able to travel as far as we had planned, sometimes even forced to stay at the same place quite a long time. But wherever you are, if you know how to look, there is always stuff to sketch for an eternity!
This sketch is the very first one I did, on the first evening. It was a very quick one, we had just deviated from the planned road to show Kevin The Rock from Gibraltar. I had already seen it, had even spent quite a long time there as I was sailing fromm Villajoyosa to the Canary Islands with my brother about 10 years ago. But Kevin had never been there, and as every English man proud of possessing a part of the Iberian peninsula, no way we could drive past without a glance.
I had no much time to sketh, we had to drive further and try to find a place for the night, so I had no time to pay much attention to the Rock shape, but I would say that one can recognise it, more or less… but the colours, as often, are invented, although it was sunset, they could be true…
or not?
