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Two months has gone since I last wrote here, oops! Well I gonna try cover the main things I've been doing since last time!

 

Starting off with a roadtrip I did in the beginning of October with two of my flatmates, Stine and Dolapo. Well all good, we hired a car and went off on a Friday night down along the coast to a town called Castellano de la Plana. We stayed overnight at a hotel and then on Saturday we continued down to Valencia.

 

The day in Valencia went to sightseeing, first to stroll around the city center, and then we jumped on a tourist sightseeing bus that took us around for a few hours to check things out. We stayed in a hostel camping outside the city, which was hot, smelly and with two backpackers staying in the same room. 

 

Long story short, the next day we took all our things and drove down to Alicante. We had booked another night at the hostel to come back to, but we decided after the first night we might skip it.

 

When arriving in Alicante we decided to go and check out Santa Barbara Castle which is located in the middle of the city on a hill. We drove half way up and parked our car on a little parking place just below the castle. 

After spending an hour walking around in the castle and taking pictures, we went back to the car, just to discover me and Dolapo's all packing was gone!

Someone had during that short time, taken up our window in the driver's seat, got in and fell down the back seats so they got into the boot and took two of our big bags! For some reason they didn't take Stine's bag, which we thought they were probably in such a hurry. 

 

Well.. the next hours we spend at several different police stations to make a report and take fingerprints. Since the car was damaged (thank god we had full insurance) we then went and changed to a new car and decided to drive home!

 

A bit frustrating when it happened since a lot of things got stolen, including my passport, but now afterwards it's just a fun memory and we couldn't have done anything to stop it either, shit happens! ;)

 

 

Last week the festival La Merce was celebrated here in Barcelona. They had a lot of music events, art and cultural shows around the city. I have unfortunately got a bit of a flu and didn't participate in many of the events, but got at least to check out some of them!

 

On Thursday, the last night of the celebrations there was a huge firework show down at Placa Espanya!

 

Here are some pictures from the yesterday's daytrip to Costa Brava and Cadaques!

 

This morning I started off with a nice run down the avenue close to our home. Was a bit sceptic about running in the city with all the traffic and people in your way, but it was actually great! There's this huge avenue called Diagonal with a lot of space and it was so nice to just come flying down the streets.

The best way to discover a place is to run around and get lost! Got to see heaps of awesome buildings and cute little stores along the way.

 

Well, then after some getting lost time and just enjoying running around the quarters, I ended up at La Sagrada Familia! It was absolutely amazing, the basilica is of course still under construction and there is these building thingos around the place, but it was still awesome to see it!

 

Yesterday we ended up at the Mexican Independence Day celebrations at Poble Espanyol de Barcelona. First we went to Placa Espanyol, where we got lost 1 hour in search of the right place, but during that time we got to see  an amazing fountain where the water moved along music playing and also beautiful buildings in the area, so can't complain!

At the Mexican party there where a great live band playing and all people sang along with the music. We had some mexican food and drinks and just enjoyed the music until it ended after midnight and half of us went home. Great night!

 

 

Alright, finally I'm sort of settled here in Barcelona! I'm just continuing on this old blog which I had a few years ago, in case you wonder why there is a bunch of other posts here.

 

I'm gonna write a bit about my first week here!

 

I started of with a night at the Hipstel Hostel in the centre and went to meet Stine, a girl from Denmark and her Danish friends. First night ended up in some bars and a nightclub, got to try a bit of Barcas nightlife! Which was really nice. Tuesday was a chill day down at the beach and just strolling around on the streets, started as well to check out what sort of accommodation we should look for.

 

Wednesday and Thursday we spent morning to night looking for apartments and rooms with Stine, and we realized quite quick it might not be as easy as we thought. All places we contacted either was full already or didn't answer. We went to an agency and spent 3 hours waiting for help and left without any, the service was so slow.

I had to take more nights at the hostel, which was a nice place but when sleeping in a room with 10 others, people partying, smoking inside and snoring like monsters the urge to find a place on our own was incredibly high.

 

On Thursday evening after a full day of searching for places and navigating through the city in the rain, we went to look at two rooms in an shared apartment,which we really hoped for was good so we could take.The owner though lived in the same flat and was so creepy so we decided quite fast that it is a big NO. Exhausted and dissapointed we went back to the hostel and continued searching. 

 

10pm on the same night Stine got a text from a mexican guy that he lives in a 10 room apartment newly renovated if we're interested. Well, we jumped in our shoes again and went right away to have a look! And it was amazing! 

 

Friday morning we got to the apartment to meet the owner, before everyone else came that had a meeting with him as well. Long story short, the owner was very friendly and just spoke Spanish with us, but luckily he got his little daughter with him who knew some English. We had already decided our rooms and took them straight away, got our bags from the hostel and moved in. Felt soo good! Now we can finally start enjoying the city when we have a home!

 

Yesterday (Friday) was the National day of Catalonia, which is a big celebration and everyone walk around with the Catalonian flag. Me, Stine and two of our flatmates went to have a look at the celebrations but then took an early night to go home and get some proper sleep.

 

Today we spent half the day at IKEA to get all basic stuff that we needed. Today is also the Independence Day of Mexico, which our flatmate wants us to celebrate also, so might go and check what party they got organized!

 

I put in some pictures as well from the last couple of days!

 

 

Noja men sen tisdag förra veckan bor ja nu i Zürich i Klaras lägenhet.

Tisdag morgon sa ja hejdo till barnen. Ja gick med Ella till dagis en sista gong och sa hejdo där, trodde de skulle va okej men nej torarna kom nog do ja krama om henne o verkligen förstod att vi inte kommer se varann mer. Med Nils gick de lättare, han är för ung för att försto att ja stack. So, tillbaka till Büsingen oker ja inte igen.. Nu var mitt au pair liv slut.

Det har varit otroligt, underbart, jobbigt, lärorikt, stressigt, roligt .. hur mycke som helst. Och ja klart jag kommer sakna barnen och stället, men de känns ändo bra. I 7 monader va de mitt liv so, de kommer nog kännas annorlunda av att komma hem sen o sätta igong med de livet ja hade förr igen..

Förra helgen var jag och Petra ner till Interlaken igen, vi okte upp till Grindelwald för att oka världens längsta kälkebana. So vi tog bussen upp till ett litet litet ställe och hyrde kälkar o började bestiga bergen uppot. Vi hade som mol att bestiga Faulhorn och oka ner därifron med kälke, men efter nästan tvo och en halv timmes klättring uppot var vi helt slut och boda var so sugna po att bara fo oka ner. Det var tydligen väldigt blosigt och dolit väder riktigt po toppen, so de va bra vi okte ner lite tidigare. De vi mötte po senare sa att de hade mosta vända om just efter vi hade gjort det ockso, för de var för mycke snöoväder. So i okte ner, det som hade tagit tvo o en halv timme att go uppför tog inte monga minuter att oka ner för. So gissa hur brant det var do. De första svängarna hade vi ingen koll po, snön okte upp i ansiktet och fötterna tryckta ner i snön men ine fick man stopp po kälken. Först senare började man fo non slags ordning po den  do det blev minder brant. En verkligen grym upplevelse var det iallafall, vi hade so kul hela vägen ner. Fron toppen skulle det vara ca. 15 kilometer ner till byn. Men vi slutade ju lite tidigare so men vi gissade po att vi okte kanske en 13-14 kilometer med kälke. Po skogsvägar, bilvägar och kälkvägar tog vi oss ner. Kallt var det, men so värt att frysa händer och fötter av sig, för det var grymt!

När vi kom ner till Interlaken igen og vi pick o pack o satte oss po toget till Kandersteg. En liten alpby mitt i bergen. Har aldrig varit in so longt i bergen förr, inte till ett sont ställe. Vi blev uppplockade po stationen av han som ägde hostellet och okte dit. Vorat rum hade ett element, men har aldrig varit med om ett so kall natt förut. Vi sovde med tvo par underställen, t shirt, tjock fleece jacka, 3 par strumpor. Po det hade vi varsin tjock sovsäck, ett täcke, och sen överst en filt. So kallt var det att sova.

Nästa dag gick vi till gongolbanan bara 100 meter fron hostellet och okte upp till ett snöparadis. Verkligen vackert var det där uppe, svort att beskriva. Men vi vandrade en bra bit ner till en liten restaurang för skidare och vandrare och ot lunch o sen gick vi tillbaka. Solen stekte so det va en härlig dag!

Nu sitter ja här i lägenheten o ska börja ordna upp lite grejer. Var o träffade Monica igor och ska ut till non bar ikväll med Jannina och Petra!