![Rivers of ink are dumped daily regarding the conflict in the Middle East but it is difficult to find texts that demonstrate common positions of those who live as neighbors in cities like Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. But for a foreigner is not easy to differentiate the Tel Avivim or Jerusalemites of either confession. The [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/05/9_new-580x340.jpg "Flavors from the East")
Rivers of ink are dumped daily regarding the conflict in the Middle East but it is difficult to find texts that demonstrate common positions of those who live as neighbors in cities like Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. But for a foreigner is not easy to differentiate the Tel Avivim or Jerusalemites of either confession. The [...]
![Self-made man and tirelessly hard worker, Christophe Guinet is the poster boy for the new generation of designers coming out of France. A freelance illustrator for more than ten years, he wanted to create a place where art can be shown the way he sees it. And lo, Seize was born. A little art gallery [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/04/16xseize_3_new-580x340.jpg "Hardworker and Self")
Self-made man and tirelessly hard worker, Christophe Guinet is the poster boy for the new generation of designers coming out of France. A freelance illustrator for more than ten years, he wanted to create a place where art can be shown the way he sees it. And lo, Seize was born. A little art gallery [...]
![Sergi Basoli kayaked all the way around the iberian peninsula. There are two kinds of people in the world; those who dare to be free, and take risks to make their dreams come true… and everybody else. Sergi basolidefinitely belongs to the first kind. “I’d always wanted to paddle a kayak along the Mediterranean coast [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/04/15_new-580x340.jpg "One man and his Canoe")
Sergi Basoli kayaked all the way around the iberian peninsula. There are two kinds of people in the world; those who dare to be free, and take risks to make their dreams come true… and everybody else. Sergi basolidefinitely belongs to the first kind. “I’d always wanted to paddle a kayak along the Mediterranean coast [...]
![It’s known as ephemeral architecture the one that provides a specific solution for a quick construction of reduced time period. In 1971, during the Congress of ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design), Carlos Ferrater and Jose Miguel de Prada Poole designed this inflatable maze to house members of the Congress who could not [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/04/9_new-580x340.jpg "Ephemeral Architecture:The instant city at Ibiza 1971")
It’s known as ephemeral architecture the one that provides a specific solution for a quick construction of reduced time period. In 1971, during the Congress of ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design), Carlos Ferrater and Jose Miguel de Prada Poole designed this inflatable maze to house members of the Congress who could not [...]
![Blond hair? Big breasts? That hot dress that makes you feel a real woman? If this is you, then life in Rome is going to be far from easy. Here, every male aged 15 and over feels compelled to approach the opposite sex at all times of day or night, and on the least possible [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/03/Silvio-Berlusconi-checks-out-Miss-Italy_new-580x340.jpg "Fighting fire with fire: A practical guide to dealing with Romans")
Blond hair? Big breasts? That hot dress that makes you feel a real woman? If this is you, then life in Rome is going to be far from easy. Here, every male aged 15 and over feels compelled to approach the opposite sex at all times of day or night, and on the least possible [...]
![More and more people in Athens are choosing to cycle rather than drive. Which is funny for a town that barely has any cycle lanes. Almost everyone I know who bikes has at some point either been injured or has narrowly escaped death as a result of the traffic. Still, among the hundreds of shops [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/03/bicis_de_la_perdicion_new-580x340.jpg "Cycles of Doom")
More and more people in Athens are choosing to cycle rather than drive. Which is funny for a town that barely has any cycle lanes. Almost everyone I know who bikes has at some point either been injured or has narrowly escaped death as a result of the traffic. Still, among the hundreds of shops [...]
![No doubt the fashion drink of nowadays is the Gin Tonic, which has driven away popular drinks such as whiskey or rum. Gin originated in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, but were the British who popularized this drink during the years of maximum splendour of the British Empire. To fight Malaria in India, the [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/02/GIN_BLOG-580x340.jpg "Med Gin")
No doubt the fashion drink of nowadays is the Gin Tonic, which has driven away popular drinks such as whiskey or rum. Gin originated in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, but were the British who popularized this drink during the years of maximum splendour of the British Empire. To fight Malaria in India, the [...]
![The love for the ecological and respect for the environment in cities has given a new twist. The urbanites living at the shores of the Mediterranean are no longer content with buying local ecological producers, or engineering to fit tomatoes, lettuce and herbs on balconies of tiny apartments. No, the new thing in cities like [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2013/02/DSCF0242.jpg "Urban gardens")
The love for the ecological and respect for the environment in cities has given a new twist. The urbanites living at the shores of the Mediterranean are no longer content with buying local ecological producers, or engineering to fit tomatoes, lettuce and herbs on balconies of tiny apartments. No, the new thing in cities like [...]
![The beginnings of the 18th Century Industrial Barcelona were closely tied to a cotton fabric originally from Asian, which were baptized with the name “Indianas”. The mass production of this type of fabric turned Barcelona into one of the major manufacturing cities of Europe, which exported from the Mediterranean to locations around the world, especially [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2012/11/indianes02_NEW-580x340.jpg "The industrial Raval")
The beginnings of the 18th Century Industrial Barcelona were closely tied to a cotton fabric originally from Asian, which were baptized with the name “Indianas”. The mass production of this type of fabric turned Barcelona into one of the major manufacturing cities of Europe, which exported from the Mediterranean to locations around the world, especially [...]
![The best restaurant in Barcelona does everything wrong. I hate self help books. They’re based on the assumption that by repeating something that worked for one guy one time, you’re going to immediately become a millionaire. Which is why of my favourite things about the twins who run Barcelona’s Xemei is that throughout their career [...]](http://www.medwinds.co.uk/blog/images/2012/11/Heroes-580x340.jpg "Accidental heroes")
The best restaurant in Barcelona does everything wrong. I hate self help books. They’re based on the assumption that by repeating something that worked for one guy one time, you’re going to immediately become a millionaire. Which is why of my favourite things about the twins who run Barcelona’s Xemei is that throughout their career [...]
