Weekend!

Here in Barcelona there rain is pouring down, so what would be better the a Movie night!
My flatmate & I rented the film In Bruges with Colin Farrell. The place that we rent from is called Deuvedes and its on C/Martines de la Rosa 71 in Gracia. On the their web you have all the info you need to find it, ect.

Before we start the flick I´ll show you some photos from last nights dinner at Bar/Restaurant Marmalade in Raval. Shared a great Club sandwich and patatas Bravas & had a couple of beers. The bill ended on just a bit more then 10€ each! After the dinner it all went a bit crazy, but thats a totally different story...

You will find Marmalade on

C/ Riera Alta 4-6, Raval

Phone: 934 423 966

B&B

Here´s some pic from the Bread and Butter jan. 2009. Did´t manage to take that many though since I was working.


The stand where I was working, Pepe Jeans


Andy Warhol by Pepe Jeans

Another loooong day at work..

Totally made me deserve a cooling Clara and a yummy crép with my dear friends in Bar Oviso in Gotico!(couldn´t find a web page of their own, but u can find some info on the link)
I was sooo hungry so I forgot to the a pic of the lovely thing, but did though get a good pic of the Burger Robert had!


The Burger, Michele and I


Robin, Michele and Robert


The inner room



Leire and Robin

Bar Oviso is situated in the notoriuos square George Orwell AKA Plaza Tripi. They have a great terrazz for late afternoon beers all year around and their lunch combo is worth checking out!
The bar is always packed, a great place to chill.

Some Swedish 90´s pop to wake us up!

Morning everyone, I´ll give you some Swedish Pineforest Crunch for breakfast!



Pineforest Crunch - Cup Noodle Song

Dirty Dancing..

I got a message from my friend Hanna, when we both lived in Örebro we used to be at her house watching Dirty Dancing(not every day, but almost..). Not just once.. or twice..maybe even 3 times in a row! Then we skipped to the BEST part of the movie, when Baby and Jhonny dances in his cabin! Wow we just died!
And like that would be enough, NO! We put on the soundtrack, ran around the house singing all the songs!
That was good times.

This is for you Hanna!!

Good morning!

Rock!


Whitesnake - here I go again...

Gratacós

This is one of the windows of the texile store GRATACÓS en Paseo de Gracia with Diagonal. Have to say it looks cool, the window display is done by Custo Bcn.

Ready To Go!

Memories... Mia´s room 1995? Popping away!


Republica - Ready to Go!

Sunday & Paella

Wow soo nice weather today, got totally springísh so put on my new bargain from H&M a striped sweater, with that a pair of ooold Levi´s jeans and converse!


Todays mission was getting our butts down to Barceloneta for some PAELLA! Olé!
The reservation we had was at the restaurant Cal Manel. The place was founded back in 1870 and has a lovely terrass torwards the harbour.




First we had some sallad, chipirones and calamares


And for second Paella





3 hours later we all rolled out with big grins on our faces!
We paid 35 a head.

Passeig Don Joan Borbó Comte Barcelona 60, Barcelona -
Phone for booking; 0034 932 215 013

And like that was not enough, also made it to Bar Andú in Gotico. The place is great, small, filled with tables, not too crowded, the light is dim. Think it could be a nice "first casual date" place. They serve cocktails, beer, wine and tapas.







Friday and saturday open til 03.00

C/ Correu Vell 3, Gotico
Phone; 0034 646 55 39 30

New book !

Going to start a new book now! Its called Let the right one in, it a Swedish romantic horror novel written by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
The novel is about 12 year old Oscar that develops a friendship with a vampire..Scary!

Hamburger...

Thursday after B&B some girls and I went to Bar Betty Ford for a Burger.. They say it was good, but OMG it was super good! So if u ever feel "Burgery" you should try it!
B.F is located i the cool area Raval, they have a wide range of cocktails and international beers.




C/ Joaquin Costa 56, Raval

Shoe showdown!

How does it better?!?
A) Mr. Robert in complete silvery zapatitos


OR...

B) Mr. Andy Warhol sales agent that pulls a crazy card. Converse vs. silvery zapatito


Jeee, hard to say.. what do you think???

Cecily´s birthday dinner!

Hey everyone,
yesterday evening we had a lovely birthday dinner at restaurant LAS FERNANDEZ in Raval. Nothing was missing, good food, good friends, happy birthday girl, a variety of birthday songs and not to forget!!! THE MASKS!!!
After the dinner half of the crew went home and the rest of us went to Bar Pepino in Nou de la Rambla, good but almost to crowded. There we topped our self's up with some more alcoholic drinks..


The Birthday Girl


Michele and Robert showing la comida deliciosa!


Birthday Girl and I


Alternative birthday cake

And like that was not enough! As it´s Bread and Butter in town(and it will be the last one..they are moving it back to Berlin..according to my source) we hit the Holala Vintage Party at Felini,really good fun with loads of cool and good looking people!


Love this photo, it totally has that Disco feeling!



B out to save Robin!

If you would like to go to Las Fernandez for dinner I recommend you to book a table in advance! They offer 2 different menu´s 25 or 30€ with wine, dessert and coffee included.
Phone for booking; 0034 93 443 20 43
C/ Carretes n*11, Raval

START ME UP!

Morning everyone time to wake up!!!

2008 part II

July; the next on the list, Summer Case festival that was held at Forum as well. There the highlights were Kings of Leon, Blondie, Primal Scream. The biggest disappointment was Six Pistols, don´t know what I did expect but I thought it was rubbish!

Cecily, Emma and Me doing The Prune

August;when this month started I got this emptiness inside of me, all the party's are ending, summer soon over. Another summer that wouldn´t last forever..So when my friends started to talk about a trip to Llança, I wasn´t the last one to sign up!
Llança is north of Barcelona and it´s lying on the seaside. If you want to get out of Barcelona for a few days its a brilliant place to go. If you don´t have a car you can easy take a train. For timetable check out Renfe


This is one of the beaches that you find in Llança



As many of you know August is one of the hottest months in Spain, so Emma and I couldn't´t miss out on going to Scotland for a few days to feel the cold. Lucky us our super friend Russell lent us his flat and he came to pick us up at Glasgow airport.


Photo; first day on the bus

The first day have to say we got totally taken on the bed, by the kindness of the Scots. God yes of course we know from our friends that they are lovely people. But our first morning we wake up.. and its raining and YES the only thing we forgot were our umbrellas.. So in the rain we ran to Marks & Spencer's at a gas station a couple of blocks down the road, asking for just umbrellas. The super sweet lady tells us SOMETHING..yes something coz we have NO clue what she is saying. She repeats.. Still we have no clue. On the third go we finally get it, they have sold out on umbrellas, NO umbrellas.
So as we are on our way to leave, the sweet lady tells us to wait, she´´ll go and check the staffroom for one, but there was non. So we try to leave again, she tells us she has one in her car, but its half broken but if we want we could have it! We thank her so very much and go out the door, then we realizes that we have no money. Luckily there´s a ATM at the gas station as well. So happy we leave to get the bus..
Well on the bus when we are going to pay the driver tells us it´s exact change (3 Pound or so)you need for paying and we get on with 50 Pound notes. We explain the situation,just arrived from Spain, no exact change.. Mr Bus Driver scans our faces, then asks us were we are going. We stutter, Bath street Sir. He takes one final look then says; Well go on then! We go and take a seat in the end of the bus to discuss the kindness of the Scottish people all the way to our stop!

Safe and sound in the center WE WENT BANANAS WITH THE SHOPPING! (So no more pictures that day and non more of Glasgow, coz I ran out of battery and forgot to by new one´s all the time..)

Oh if you go to Glasgow you have to try the Metro/Subway. OMG, it´s the smallest thing I have ever been in and if I´m not wrong it´s the third oldest in the world!

One of the other days we went with another Scotsman to Edinburgh and on the way there we stopped in Linlithgow to visit my goddaughter. In Edinburgh the yearly city festival was on (its the whole month of August)so we just spent a couple of hours there coz it was so crowded and cold. We did manage to go to Harvey Nichol´s rooftop bar for a drink and to look at the view.

Princes Street Garden with the castle in the background



The view from Harvey Nichol's in Edinburgh


Emma and Robin


The royal castle


September;was totally ruled by RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY



What is Red Bull Music Academy? For the best respond if I wore you would click on the link..

I was not a participant, was working with the catering, serving 100 to 150 people lunch and dinner every night. Every night a few participants had a gig somewhere in town and of course we were there to check it out! Had so much fun, meeting so many new interesting and talented persons.





Of this event I could put out sooo many photos..


October; I started my "real" job and with that I mean something that's related to my studies. So happy that I almost cried when they told me YES, the job is yours! So now I´m a Pepe Jeans employee!

November a quiet month, hard to start a 09 to 18 job after not having to get up after 12 for the last 6 months.. But we did though celebrate Thanksgiving, our Super Girl from Florida Michele bought a turkey bigger then I don´t know what and of course served with all the specialties that goes with it!

December; weekend in the month I was of once again to Scotland, this time for the christening of my goddaughter and her twin sister!

This first photo has nothing to do with me or my friends, we just happened to walk by the Palace of Linlithgow and this just got married couple were taking their wedding photo. Thought it was a bit crazy coz it was bloody freezing and OK thought their clothing were hilarious.

The cake!

And to the last happening of the year..Christmas and new year in Sweden!!!

Home to my parents stuffing myself with christmas food, candy and drinks...