VIKACHUU in MADrid

Hey guys/girls!

We did promise to write more often, but it's as impossible as for me and Beta to come on time for a meeting! :P But I am taking some time off from the parties and studies, to drop a line about my trip to Madrid, which actually was quite some time ago ... :)

So after spending some weeks in Barcelona, I went on my first trip in eSpain, to Madrid. There I felt like if I am living a double ERASMUS life, cause I was spending a lot of time with ERASMUS ppl from Madrid. And of course most of all with my beloved girls from Tallinn - Annika, Milen and some LBG Madrid members. Thanks guys for taking me to the great tapas place, for hosting me, for all the parties we had!!! I had a great time with you and you are more than welcome to visit me and Beta in Barcelona.

The Orange wall

So, the ones who have visited us in these months, have seen that the flat looks much more different from what it was when we moved in.
After a lot of visits to IKEA and many painting sessions the apartment started to look like HOME. We painted everything in white, bought white furniture, and a striped sofa, which looks like a bar code. But it was toooo white, so we decided to add some colours in our life. As a result which you can see in the pics, we painted the wall in the most juicy orange colour!!! We hope you like it!!!!

We liked the orange colour so much, that we bought also the accessories in this colour.

Besos ;)

Editors corner >>>
We have received some complains about being slow with our blog articles :) And we wanted to apologise, but because of having many visitors and some parties and a lot of stuff besides that, it's difficult to find time. But we promise that we will write more often from now on!

Granada & Sevilla

The 2nd of October we went for our first trip with Cris and Mercè to Granada!!! Some months ago, we found one of those Ryanair offers which you simply can't refuse :) and we bought them with any idea if we would finally go there or how the trip would look like.

But finally we all managed to solve all the obtacles; the 4 of us going to "the South" :D

We arrived to Granada's ariport in the evening and our first movement were to get to the hostel. After leaving the bags there and check that beds were not so bad, we went for a first exploration looking for a good tapas place to eat. We ate in two diferent places several tapas and although we were very hungry after the trip, we could not finish all the tapas we got.

After tapas, Vikachuu and Beta didn't feel yet in the mood to go to bed, so we continue our exploration in the night clubbing. Seems and easy task at the first moment, as many people gives you many many flayers around the center, but the complicated part was to understand people indications, as sometimes we got the feeling we were talking different languages.

Finally, we danced a little bit in a club were there was an erasmus party and we end up later in a nice English pub having delicious cocktails (easily, it became our favourite bar there).

The day after we woke up early and we went for breakfast (xurros con chocolate) and walk to vist Granada. It is a facinating city with a lot of history and its narrow streets and plazas are very cute, specially under october sun always arround the 26ºC :)

In the afternoon we had entrances for the Alhambra and we walk there for hours, visiting islamic palaces, gardens, fountains and in general, behaving like real "guiris" (including taking ALL the most stupid pictures possible we could perform).

After this exhausting day and a shower we still had energy for some more Granada fiesta.

On Saturday, we had our last walk&breakfast in Granada and we went to get the car we rented to go to Sevilla. They gave us a red Seat Leon and we were very happy with it, specially Cris :)

Some hours later (2h from Granada to Sevilla + 2h trying to find a place to park) we were walking in the lively streets without a hostel yet. But the task to look for it was not half hard it was to leave the car in a secure place. And again, more tapas for dinner and a coffee in a terrace next to Sevilla's cathedral, and still could not believe that on an October night we could feel the warm summer breeze, the night was magic.

We continue with our visits in Sevilla on a happy sunny Sunday till late in the afternoon. And at night we were so exhausted that we decided to spend the night in our hostel's terrace.

Last day we took the car to explore some village next to Sevilla till the time to take our fight back home.

We recommend you to do this trip on a condition if you have such a wonderful company like we did.

Guapas, what is the next destination? :)

Kenny

Aaaaah... by the way, we forgot to mention that we share our flat with another "chica". The ones who already have visited us, know that she is a little bit strange, not very talkactive, lazy and not very clean, bur we have our reasons to have her in the flat. So here we present you the 3rd of us, our coleague for the good and bad moments and also the most stylish of us. So this is la Kenny

La Mercè

Every year close to the end of September Barcelona holds its largest street party, the Barcelona La Mercè Festival. La Mercè lasts for around 6 days and is a festival held in honour of Mare de Deu de la Mercè, the Patron Saint of Barcelona. It's full of parties, concerts, shows, fireworks and so on!!!

During the weekend we had some people from Madrid (Dani, Diego, Laura, Victor) visiting us. We had a lot of fun, going out every night and following some of the events of la Mercè. Here you can also see the pictures of one of the most interesting shows of la Mercè, called Correfoc - "Runningfire" - it's a Catalan tradition with dragon, fires and people running under sparks of fire! Well, its hard to explain it in words, but looks really impressive!

When Madrideños left us, we met with Cris and and had a nice morning following another interesting Catalan tradition - castellers. A castell is a human tower traditionally built during festivals in many places in Catalunya. Several colles castelleres (teams) meet and try to build the most impressive towers they can. Its so interesting to see how all the peolpe are holding there breath when one of the castelles seemes to be shaking.

In the end of la Mercè, there is a huge concert with fireworks and colourful fountains in Plaça Espanya. Its a meeting point of thousands of people. The show lasts about an hour and its super beautiful and worth of seeing!

Week 1

On 24th of August Vikachuu and her young, inocent brother arrived to Barcelona. This is Arthurs, the brother:


Arturs mission in BCN was very clear: To find a simetrical girl, which is quite common quality of girls in Spain. Vikachuu's mission was to make him a slave in fixing the appartment. Both missions clompleted.

But Arturs wasn't alone in the slavering task, we recieved also some nice help from Tassos and Tuuli, thank you guys! :)

After hard week of work, and cold showers (because we still don't have hot water) we decided to spend a wonderful weekend in the beach, so we went to Costa Brava. We found a cool bar in the harbour of Platja d'Aro where they prepared super delicious cocktails and Arturs felt like a king.

When for everybody party was over for us was just the beginning, so we continued in another place. All of a sudden we felt very self confident that we could skip huge entrance cue, the fee and entered like if we were VIP members. We still don't know why but everybody wanted to take picts of us and with us and we felt fabulous so happily agreed. (We still are waiting to receive them :P)

Sunday we were back to BCN and after packing some Beta's clothes we were ready to build Vikachuu's bed and spend our first night in the flat :)