In Search for the Crown of Europe
Tags: Barcelona, Cancellations, Holiday, Twitter, Baloncesto, Basketball, Basket, Eurobasket2007, Eurobasket07, Championships, Warriors, Crown, Spain
You would remember how a couple of weeks back I mentioned that this coming Wednesday I was planning to take some vacation and head over to Barcelona, hoping to be able to meet up with a few folks who I have met in real life or on line in the past. Alas, I am afraid that I will have to wait for another opportunity, because over the course of last week a personal emergency has kicked in and shifted around all of the different plans and priorities. So much so, that earlier on this morning I cancelled the hotel reservations and had to postpone the holidays for a later time. Yes, I know. A bummer.
I cannot talk much about that particular personal emergency, other than mentioning that things are going all right, although with a slow recovery process (Don’t worry, it is not me), but I am hoping that once it is all over I may be able to share something over here on the kind of impact this experience has been having on all of us over here. Stay tuned for some more.
I am not sure when I would be able to make it to Barcelona again, but I am hoping that perhaps some time in October or thereabouts I would have the opportunity, so if you would still be around by that time I will let you know, just in case. For those folks who contacted me to get together, I have been twittering the main cause of it and know you would understand why I had to cancel it. I am hoping though we would be able to meet up at some other point in time and catch up. Thanks for sticking in and for all of your understanding 
So, I am not going to go to Barcelona after all, and I surely was looking forward to it. What can I do in the mean time to console myself? Well, I may have just found it. I do know that this is completely off topic, like it was exactly a year ago, but I just couldn’t help mention, even if it is just briefly, how over the next few days I shall be enjoying one of my other passions in life: basketball (Or like a well known wise man would say — BA – LON – CES – TO!!!).
And all of it because of this particular event that got started today and, of course, because of these guys:
Pictures courtesy of Kaplan DF
(Good luck to everyone and let’s play!!)
[...] Very few times in my whole life have I gotten too upset about any sports event, but this time around, and with the occasion of the Eurobasket 2007 finals , it had to be the next one. After having played some serious ball during the entire course of the tournament, and perhaps too exhausted, both physically and mentally, after yesterday’s epic victory against Greece, Spain is not going to have the Crown of Europe this time around, as Russia went ahead this time around. [...]