St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Incredible picture of a sunset in Moscow. That was the area where our hotel, the Ukraine, was located.

The artist was Hotsumi, a japanese girl I met in this trip. Maybe I should have asked her for permission to publish this... XD

Tunnelloppet

Tunnelloppet
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Starting line of an inline skates race that I took part in October'04. I am among the crowd, try to find me!

I finished the race in the 177th position, out of around 2000 poeple. The length was 10.8 km and my time was 30:51.

Do you like sushi? I do...

Do you like sushi? I do...
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Close-up of some maki-sushi that we prepared one evening, supervised by Chef Cesc-san.

These are made with salmon, avocado and tuna fish. I get hungry just looking at them... :)_

Valborg at Uppsala

Valborg at Uppsala
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

The last day of April every year, there's a party called Valborg in Sweden.

Uppsala is a student town close to Stockholm, and it is traditional that the students build their own weird boats and race down the river.

Osqvik's Sauna

Osqvik's Sauna
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Those blurry things are me and some friends. I really don't know who dared to get inside with a digital camera, I wouldn't have done it.

By the way, this is the night when Paco and I established the spanish sauna record at 112ºC, beat it!

Skiing at Bielmonte

Skiing near Prativero
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Nacho, I, Nuria and Nico went to ski to the Alps, to a place close to Prativero, Nico's home town.

It was my first time and it was really funny, although I fell too much and the later called "Alien" appeared on my leg (a huge swollen haematoma that was there for almost a month)

Snow Mobiles at -20º

Snow Mobiles at -20º
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

I actually don't know what the temperature was when we drove the snow mobiles in Kiruna, but it was fucking cold!

The driver here is Uge, trying to survive at least until the youth hostel. He didn't feel his feet when we arrived (not a joke...)

Cold-War Chess Board

Cold-War Chess Board
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Funny souvenir in St. Petersburg, Russia. They sold all kind of stuff related to the communism and the cold-war era, but this one caught my eye!

Everyone was present in the game: Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachov, Kennedy, Bush, Clinton...

Psycho

Psycho
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Mariano and I were trying to imitate the famous scene in Hitchcock's movie in our visit to Skansen.

Unlike the movie, the knife was made of ice here and somehow nobody got hurt.

Party at the Love-Boat

Party at the Love-Boat
Originally uploaded by juanerubio.

Isn't the love-boat, trombonave for the italian community, famous all over the world?

We were just chilling out at the deck and shouting a little bit, because it isn't very warm at night during the winter in the middle of the Baltic Sea...