Dr. Nono is tonite in the radio

I will be interviewed in the program "La Bombilla, El programa mas viajero"( the light bulb, the program that travels the most of all) from Sanlucar la mayor, Sevilla Today, 29th. The program will be at 21:00 Greenwich time, one hour later in Torredonjimeno, Spain, and two hours later in King Mariut, Egypt. It is a very cool program apparently, i never heard it before :P but i spoke yesterday with German, one of the people producing the program, and he told me about it. They have "random" telephone calls to the world and they get to know different cultures. Every program they have specials about different countries and interviews with people that like to travel differently. They called me for the trips in bicycle in Cabo de Gata with the Hull crew in 2002, Maghreb/Morocco that i did with Mr. Sam "fishman" Petragallus along the Atlantic coast in 2002 and a mad adventure in the Atlas mountain and Sahara dessert with Dr. Tomsy Hedley in 2003. The program in Spanish can be heard online in:

http://www.sanlucarlamayor.es/delegaciones/frames.php?zona=25

Then click on the moving butterfly on the right..But in my mozila firefox doesnt seem to work...just in explorer.

7 wonders of the world

Well, the election of the new 7 wonders of the world has been going on for a while in http://www.new7wonders.com/ .The finalists have been selected. No offense, but for me even considering the statue of liberty or the cristo redentor or the Eiffel tower as wonders of the world is a bit excessive. Buildings that have were erected with much more limited technology and have lasted for hundreds, even more than a thousand years deserve this sort of award much more. Myself i have voted: Alhambra, Taj mahal (two of the most beautiful Islamic palaces ever built, one in mud the other in stone), Machu Pichu (unknown how was built at that height without use of the wheel), Timbuctu (even though i prefer the closely related Djenne Mosque, in Mali as well), Hagia Sophia (in one of my favourite cities of all times: Bizancio, Constantinopolis or Istambul), Chichen Itza (i had to chose a pyramid) and the Great wall (the only building that can be seen from space...in mud as well). I missed one in particular, snif, the Shibam skyscrapers in Yemen, made with mud and stone and 500 years standing there. Building regulations do not allow building these beauties nowadays...

http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/01/22/skyscrapers-in-the-desert/

The result of the award will be 07.07.07, and as the vote is either though internet and telephone, i am afraid that the greater access in developed countries some of my non-favourites will make it to the final 7 wonders, so u go and vote ur favourites!...thanks god theres more than 7 wonders in the world ;) Another of my candidates would have been the mud maze of Ait Benhadout, Morocco, but im too emotionally attached to Maghreb to be impartial in this one :P