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sound of pan pipes with a specific tune announcing that he will sharpen your knives, scissors, axes or whatever. Used to be a man on a bike with a portable grindstone connected to the bike, then they got scooters and changed now to driving a van. At least we still get to hear the special sound of it.

Lovely evening for a night swim from the Platja Gran at Platja d'Aro. Nice bit of moonlight and great feeling looking up at the stars while floating in the sea. So I sat on the beach afterwards to record a boo.

OSX Mavericks is coming and so is iOS 7. What are we going to get besides a load of hot air from all of the Mac websites and podcasts. They are all trying to guess what is coming and how it is all going to work. Can we use technology to make our lives better?

I have been into photography and for rather a long time starting off with a film camera that would have been the point-and-shoot and moving onto the film DSLR with an Olympus. Now I'm using a Canon 600D and I use it mainly for shooting video although I did take a lot of photographs on my trip to Estonia. I do sell some of my photos through the Fotolia website and I upload photographs to the Flickr account as well as to other social networks. With this Canon camera that I have now I can do quite a lot of things with it, but I found out the other day that there was a lot of controls within the camera that I hadn't actually bothered to find out about. These cameras are very congregated and worth spending the time exploring all of the menus and settings that are available. I have promised myself some quality time with this camera pushing the envelope of what I can do with it

The Mother-in-law fell over and broke her wrist and my wife had to go off to the hospital and didn't get back till late, very late as in early in the morning. So this morning I was walking the dog and creating the Audioboo.

Everyyear in St Feliu de Guixols in Catalonia there is a Festa Major. It is the event of the year for partying and apart from the Correfoc there is also the end of Festa Major fireworks display.

We were sitting in the best cafe in the small town of Haapsalu in Estonia and it seems that I do most of the chatting and talk rubbish most of the time. Of course there is a party after a wedding it's called a reception! Jaques gives his views on how they could be a good place for doing windsurfing and how you would like to see what it looks like during or after a storm. I should have put up these Audioboo's in a better chronological order, but to be honest I had forgotten that I had recorded this one.

this is a Audioboo with me walking the dog late at night and as per usual the neighbour's dog is following along too. Talking about things at the camping site and some of the cheeky people and some of the nice people that I meet as part of the job. We caught a cheeky person that was coming into use the Site facilities for free. Then one of the long-term campsite customers was demonstrating his ability to tell porkies and bend the campsite rules with regard to getting his car into the campsite for parking. I talk about some of the customers that are here and the fact that I kind of miss them a little when they go home because they are so friendly. Then there is another pair of couples from Holland and one of them has ended in hospital in Barcelona which is not a great way to spend some of your holiday in Catalonia. However pretty the nurses are!

As part of the Festa Major in St Feliu de Guixols there will be the entertainment of Correfoc. A group of devils run through the town spinning fireworks above their heads. I missed it again and it is so much fun and excitement. A super Catalan tradition worth seeing. I have already seen it many times and it will be around again next year.

Missing Estonia and talking about writing and editing of the things I do for my online content. Also was helping with the translations for the Camp site web presence, using my native English abilities. Always better if the English sounds like an English person wrote it rather than a foreigner doing the very best and not getting the good English flow of words.

Chatting about the traditions of the weddings in Estonia and how it seems that life is passing by so quickly. Being back at work at the camp site came around so quickly. I was pleased that I have found a good workflow for making audio boos on the Galaxy S3. All I had to do was to add the description and stuff later. #audiomo

There are some fun Traditions at Estonian weddings and the bride and groom get tested on the way from the wedding reception. They They have to prove their suitability for being married by being able to chop wood and do things with a baby. With such cold temperatures in winter the ability to have a warm house is truly important. Fun for the happy couple and great entertainment for the guests who get to watch. Not so good for the traffic in the town as these tasks can be set anywhere on the journey from the wedding to the reception.

First part is when I am on the plane going from Girona to Tallinn and mostly there is the noise of the plane, but you can still here the voice over it. I was delighted that my two sons came to pick us up at the airport. It made it really easy to get to Haapsalu and I give some quick mentions to the places we saw in the town before we went off to the wedding.

with my son getting married he used a website to get an RSVP from people that are going to it. How very modern! He asked respondents to also suggest three songs to add to the track for the wedding and in this Audioboo I tell you my choice of three tracks. It is quite difficult to choose either what you think is going to be most suitable or just your favourite music that will fit the circumstances. I like lots of different types of music but in the end I went for a couple of old favourites and one very modern hip-hop track. My wife also chose another Spanish track which is really quite beautiful and I'm looking forward to having a dance with her at the wedding while this music is playing. Part of this Audioboo I'm talking about how to encrypt emails using GPG tools and specifically in this I am looking at encrypting just a part of the message and using the services menu on Mac OS X to get the job done. A little bit of chat from David the dog walker in Catalonia

One my favourite regular emails in is the GizMag emerging technology magazine. I love seeing all the new bits of technology that are being invented and created. Some of the things are mere prototypes and some of things are actual items that are going to be put into use and hopefully will make our lives better in some way or other. There is a huge range of topics that get covered, sometimes it is more towards the architectural, sometimes towards the computing and things along with things that are completely hard science biochemistry and the like.

Talking about some of the goings on a camp site today and how busy I was and also talking about my month with my samsung galaxy s 3

Had to cycle to work due to problems with keys for the car. My car being fixed and I didn't have the key for my wife's car. Talking about the work I do in the campsite and how my work colleague is a good worker. I did rant about another one that is useful like a chocolate teapot but I edited that out. All recorded in Platja d'Aro in Costa Brava Catalonia.

I put a new camera application on my Samsung Galaxy S3 and I found that in respect of the front camera it is not as good as the previous application I was using. And to have the 720 HD resolution and 640 -and the wrong aspect ratio, and the previous application. sometimes I amaze myself being able to speech Spanish and be understood the whole day long while I am working at the campsite. As a language I still have a preference for German and sometimes I get the chance to practice while I am at work.