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Las Fallas en Valencia

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kind of sponteneously I went to Valencia for las fallas last weekend. all the trains were booked, so take the bus, dude :-P

fiesta was great, cool fireworks, and some of las fallas were really nicey done. a tad noisy though and unfortunately I didn't get to explore Valencia and the surroundings really... well, maybe next time ;) but met a few nice peeps along the way and I sure know now where to get a good mojito :-D

 

was listening to:

CCCB numero 2 - buen hetcho!

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second time in the CCCB ( Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona ). was just as good as the last time I visited with J. in 2009 (los quinquis).

this pic here is from the exhibition about "triest". incredible how they managed to create a feeling like you're there really... sitting in that bar, background noises, windmachines... buen hetcho!

apart from that, am still feeling effing well here! :-D the drinks yesterday in that gay bar were cool, good time, ey ;) Wham, Jimmy Summerville...

and for the visit last night here the appropriate music:

scepticism and pitifulness

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but who is what.... ;)

great night with C. and her mates from college. although some tell her BF's that they are just going to spend the night in the hostel (yeah right).

Had a yummi Cardenal Mendoza (I think have to pay her back tomorrow, hehe). and now back to sleep... we'll see what the next night brings, jeje

and yes, even the tutors are cool! :-D

 

currently listening to "heroes de silencio - entre dos tierras"

First 5 weeks in Barca

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jeje, who'd have though that it would be that busy... apart from the friendly welcome weather wise (needed to buy after sun lotion the first weekend) I also enjoyed work. no rocket science, but due to the workload challenging enough. I like :)
met a good few new cool and nice people. discovered a latino restaurant where they have fabulous frijoles (beans). yummie... went to Germany for my moms 70th birthday. discovered Barca a bit more. went clubbing twice (until 7 o clock each, and one was a feckin mad night with the 3 M's). spend a good bit of money for new clothes - it's a rewarding feeling when an attractive 22 year old calls you "v. attractive" :-D - god loves italian designers, outlets and sales/rebajas, hehe

 

currently listening to: Skunk Anansie - Brazen

First weekend in Barcelona / El primero finde en Barca

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from having a welcome lunch with M. to hiking near Santa Coloma to eating yummie sushi to sitting in the sun and getting a bit tanned to dipping my feet into the Mediterranean to visiting an exhibition with photos from Bruno Serrolongue to meeting a cool chilenan guy (who is my even cooler flatmates BF)... all in all I walked maybe 20 k, and am now looking forward to having my first day at work tomorrow...

linkie to all pics

 

a song I heard last Thur in the Oval during a kind of surreal, weird, great and confusing encounter...

The taxi driver and his 25 Euros tip

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the picture you see here really originates to the headline... it was the last drink we had in that one Bar in Gracia/Barcelona (with M.+M) after a good few cavas, rums and of course tapas...







the pic shows "just" a regular G+T really... just a "tiny" bit more Gin than expected... anyway... the taxidriver bringing me home (me being somewhat intoxicated) sensed that I needed a lift to the airport the next day... so I gave him my number and said I'd be ready by 6 o clock.
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snore
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sleep (4 hours)
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waking up to my telephone ringing at 10 past six then was, well, sobering. 5 more missed calls from the driver too... anyhow, without this persistent pakistanian bloke I deffo would have missed the plane, or, how M. told me "make a Gustavo". so the 25 euros tip were well deserved me thinks...

it's the second time in my life I would have missed a flight if not for the taxi man... the first time was in Sevilla in 2007. I guess it's the spanish air...

oh, and with the weather being great and stunningly looking women around you I think I am doing the right thing, jeje

not really currently listening to that song here, but M. sent it to me today. subject line: "Klausis - Memories of your time here..." not sure what he meant with that now ;)
reminds me, leaving party today in Birchalls - in case you want to pop along. :)

day trip to Duesseldorf

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got up at 4:30 this morning, yawn... and now to CGI in Duesseldorf. hopefully all will go well and I'll be back to Dublin tonight... man, am wearing suit and tie way too often these days... :-D

one thing I did today I've never done before: long term car park. Rommel brought me up to the quick park no prob. hmmm... I'd say 45 euros saved, hehe

IMMA II and III

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First talking to my mom and J. this morning and then making my way down to the IMMA (Irish museum of modern art). Met S., since she hasn't been there for a while.

After a quality chat and a hearty lunch a stopover in Houston Station

 I then went back to the IMMA on my own, to check out the postwar america exhibition. Didn't take me long to pick my personal favourite (Kahn, blue sea),and somehow I managed to run into Brenda Moore-McCann. She just finished her book on Patrick Ireland (Brian O´Doherty) named "between categories" and did a complementary tour of the exhibition.
During her 2 hours tour she was able to explain the mind sets of some of the artist on display. She i.e. mentioned the performance of one artist sitting at his piano, not playing at all. He seemingly wanted to make somethig unexpected. maybe even provoke the audience. what he wanted to show too was, that silence is not silence. Ordinary sounds like the audience shuffling feet, coughing, whispering can be a performance too...

That made me think of the new Coppola movie "Somewhere" I watched in the IFI last night. Acting: good, screenplay: ok,  Visuals and sounds: very good. Some of the sounds were so detailed, accentuated even and played a huge role... Like Stephen taking a drag of his smoke(s). Or the car, changing from a normal sportscar to a carnivore.

anyway, back to Brenda - short storie when showing us the photos on the first floor... she mentioned that some time in the early nineties she visited Barbara and Brian/Patrick in their house in Umbria. It was really hot in the house in summer. so when they got a fan, Brenda was very happy! alas, it was for the dog :-D

Brenda, thanks again for the quality time!

update one day after: went to the Centra today in Fairview to buy a few groceries... and who do I meet? the guy who attended the tour as well (Ben iirc). Dublin is a small town...

currently listening to:

New camera

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O. was teasing me for ages to get a new camera. so I did. a nice SLR. Praktica MTL5B. to say it in Facebook style: I like :-D

took a few pics today as well, when E. took me to the Aviva for the Ireland/Argentina rugby match. thanks again mate! And L., sorry Argentina lost. I did cheer for them, I swear!

watched recently: The boy with the striped pyjamas

Evening walk down Sandymount

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Got lucky there with the light I guess... not sure which one of the pics is the best, but that one here I deffo like a lot...

currently listening to: Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime

A Baracoa me voy *sing*

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Back from my moms yesterday. had paid a visit, since her friend got a pacemaker last week, and he ist not allowed to drive for about a month. but he's in good shape. fingers crossed...
Booked the flight to Holguin/Cuba a few mins ago - just 500 Euros return, not bad... I'll leave Wed, Feb. 03 and will be back Feb. 18. Do I have to say that I am totally excited???
I also am curious to see the faces from the people I know over there... will be a surprise to see "El Rubio" again ;)
Went through old papers, to find addresses and phone numbers from the hostels we stayed in - hmmm.... memories...

I already booked 3 nights in the fabulous hotel Villa Maguana near Baracoa (see picture). in case you get up yer lazy bum at 7 a.m., you can literally swim into the rising sun... well, that's what I'll be doing anyway :-D
Now I just hope the vacation will go as smooth as 2 years ago...

you all have a great time!


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A Baracoa me voy, me voy
Aunque no haya carretera
Aunque no haya carretera
A Baracoa me voy. (x2)

Ex-AOL beer bash in Cafe Miller Fri, Jan 22, 2010

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The pic here from summer 2007 in my ole flat in Poppenbuettel. was a fun eve, playing table tennis with the lads...

anyway, at www.SlamCon.de you can see the invitation for the ex-AOL beer bash tomorrow.

SlamCon is my latest baby, the result from going freelance: "SlamCon - International IT Project Management with Poetry und Faust"

Pretty much sorted out the tax office so far, businessplan is done too. and tomorrow a chat in regards to funding from the goverment... target date for starting Feb. 01, 2010.

now off to do some more work :)

Flogge taking a nap

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Currently listening to: "Cowboy Junkies - Just want to see"

after calling the AA this morning in order to jump-start the lady (will need to buy a new battery for next season I guess) I prepped her for the next three lonely months. well, maybe I'll visit her some stage in between, just to keep her company for a few mins in case she's feeling sad...and to check if she's being a good girl and not flirting with some car nearby (as one should do once in a while, how I learned).

Spent christmas with my mom, was sick most of the time (darn sinuses...). The ride back was special though, had 45 mins in Bremen. hmmm... around the main train station it looked (and felt) a bit like Barmbek... I had to think of "Neue Vahr Sued" (a book written by someone who grew up in Bremen and describes - in a funny way - the quirky ways of a young guy who grew up in an appartment block in Bremen, probably similar to one here).

Jobwise, well, I'll have a second interview with one company next Tuesday. BUT, M.'s offer, to work with him and D. in Dublin is more and more becoming something I thoroughly consider - would need an account with "Parsheep" though...;)  I'll make a final call on that one by the second week in January. and if all goes according to plan, I hope to spend some weeks in Peru, before it's back to the "grind" ;)

you all have a good rutsch and so :-D

currently listening to: El Bicho - Mama Dolores

getting home

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currently listening to: Mark Knopfler - You don't know you're born

after 4 great days in Dublin and a "few" drinks with each Mareke, Chelly, Mark, Dan and Ed I finally got my lurvely behind in gear and did my 2 first interviews last week. didn't go too bad actually. we'll see how it goes :)
Sunday (after a very german like and totally crazy "feuerzangenbowlen party" on Sat) I went to see F. for her B-day party. well, was supposed to be more a brunch really... I ended up walking home the 10 km or so from Wellingsbuettel at 1 a.m. (since I was a tad tipsy, the moon was out and I felt like walking). took me like 2 hours, but it was great. :) nostalgia... thought of when we always walked home from the discos when I was 18 ish (jaisus, that's 21 years ago now, jeje)... 5-10 km were no problem back then...

currently listening to: Pappo - Quizas mañana

The High Fidelity Trap

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On my way back to Hamburg, first day (Barcelona to Zurich,  Sept. 22, 2009). I was driving along, some highway in France, pretty much devastated. In my head though I created a list, a list of lovers long gone (and thought about if I had treated them properly and what they would be doing right now).

an hour or so after that I realized, that I had fallen into the "High Fidelity" trap. I laughed so hard, and for a good bit the heartache disappeared. Thanks Nick H. for writing such a great piece and thanks Conor W. (who suggested I should read that book in like 1998)! :-)

So, 6 weeks later, in Hamburg...

I went to the Abaton Restaurant to meet B., which wanted to surprise me. She only said "well, since you do speak ok english, we might as well do something bilingual." I love surprises!

You probably can understand my joy, when I got to know that we'd be going to a Nick Hornby Reading (for "Juliet, naked"). well, not only joy, kind of a flashback too, since I of course immediately thought of me "falling into the High Fidelity" trap a few weeks earlier ;)

The reading was a great pleasure. well, and fun too ;)

N.H. about women constantly needing to talk: "women always need to catch up. Strange, while I never feel left behind".

and the talks about Jedward and "X-Factor" and his comment, that Jedward are oirish and not brits, got the audience roaring with laughter.

anyhow, thanks again to B. for the fun night!

Last party in Poppenbuettel

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currently listening to: Neil Young - "Southern Man". Reminds me very much of one of my favourite movies - "Dead Man" with Jonny Depp (luv the soundtrack!)

am just about to finish up here in Hamburgs north. 2 or 3 rides more, then the move is done. strange, sad, angry... I tell you...

the chair here I sat on after all the guests were gone, had another sip of rum (El Dorado, 12 years, yummi...), and looked at the stars... very emotional moment...

thanks to all who helped me moving my stuff, the ones which came to party with me last friday, and also the ones which didn't tag along but would have liked to have a beer with me...

currently listening to: The Prodigy - "Smack by bitch up"

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Boletus and more

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What a week...

• accomodation from November onwards is sorted. good :-D


• garage - sorted too.


• job - haven't started yet (bad boy...).


• emotional state - improving, but like a rollercoaster at times though...

the shrooms you see I gathered with a good friend yesterday. was fun (haven't done it in like 7 years, since my ex better half didn't like it). loved it when I was a kid, and yesterday brought back many good memories.

Also, there will be a party some stage soon, so give me a shout if you want to come. I still have like 20 original thuringian sausages (original Thueringer wuerste) left...

all the besht for you!

So I received my compostela, and then?

After a really troubling long week and 180 km on foot in Portugal and Galicia, with lots of blisters, heavy shoulders, but a mind fresher than before I reached Santiaga de Compostela ( linkie to a few pics ). While I was walking alone most of the time I only came to one conclusion really. Back to Hamburg and start looking for a new job. and, I was really looking forward to it, after those 3 months here in Barcelona. my own bed, a nice steak, Claudia (which I really missed)...

The last night a few of us peregrinos / pilgrims went for a few drinks (my first alcohol in 10 days). and 2 of the guys even said, why they were doing the walk ---> heartache...I could relate, but said: lads, how happy am I that I have a very stable relationship... and thank god for that.

But, la vida es un rouleta...(live is a roulette)... next day, once back to Barcelona, I read an email from Claudia. She fell in love. Not only that, but with a mutual friend of ours... I already suspected there was something wrong, since her SMS were so much shorter and without caring words. Alas, I put that down to her upcoming exams though.

So while some do the camino in order to forget their heartache, my GF dumps me WHILE I am doing it. :o)

couldn't that have happened at the start of my stay here in BCN? I might "just  even" have found a nice spanish woman to connect with...;)

in two days I'll be driving back to Hamburg, and I'll be moving out of Poptown within a month (won't be wasting energy with fighting for her or the like). and then I might to do the Camino de Santiago again for new ideas...

I am very curious what this change will be good for. Right now it simply hurts...

Training for the way of St. James

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today i am off for Braga in Portugal, where I'll be starting with my way towards Santiago de Compostela (camino portugues de Santiago). One of my training days I did in Montserrat, others in Montseny (great tours indeed...). Wish me luck, I'll be back Sept. 17.
cheers, Klaus :)