I can not wait!!!!!

After 3 weeks of different time-zones, taking off and land a million times from different airports, living in a suitcase I am sooo ready to unpack all my stuff and “LAND”.

I am so ready to walk up the 156 steps to my apartment if the elevator is broken (which is very likely in Bcn), breath the mold-car-gas-over-ripe-fruit smell, order my simple 1 euro cafe solo that kicks the shit out of the 4 euro Starbucks “Cafe Americano”.
I cant wait to be woken up by the noise of Barcelona and say “Callate!!!!!” (SHUT UP) to the noisy people playing basketball outside my huge terasse at 9 in the morning. I cant wait to go to the first football game of the season sept 14th!!!!! I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!!!!

I can’t wait to argue with the waiter for better service, I cant wait to feel totally stupid speaking my beginners spanish at the food-market trying to explain I want one kilo of the peaches that are NOT ripe and I cant wait to take cold showers when the water heater is broken which happens sometimes.

I can’t wait to play squash in Tibidabo with David, or go climbing in Montjuic with the other David. I can’t wait to do intercambio with Gaby or argue with Matteo about why avocado is healthier than pasta.

I cant wait to wake up sweaty in the morning cus of the lack of AC and eat my breakfast cereal in front of my computer with the view of Tibidabo on my left side. (Ok the sweaty part I CAN live without haha)

I cant wait to eat sushi on our local buffet until I have salmon hanging out of my ears and I cant wait to take the metro with a hundred rude catalans.

I cant wait to meet my Daila Lama september 6th CARITO How I have missed her so much. The champion of “living the moment appreciate the small things in life”.

Barcelona turned out to be so much more than I could ever wish for. It turned out to be my own personal medicine, life-medicine. 

After being in L.A, the contrast will be even more evident now. The country of surface and smiles, compared to the country of something completely different.
Both have their good and bad sides, like everything in life. But the true enjoyable things in life ARE the smallest things and I dont CARE how much of a cliché that makes it cus it is true, and have you ever seen anything SMALL in America? haha…its the country with the biggest meals, the biggest beers, the biggest coffees, the biggest houses, the biggest cars, the biggest salaries and the biggest people in the world!!

L.A adventures…

Aaaahhh….

Just loving it…

Loving Barcelona…

Its so hot here now. People are literally dying… 

But still it´s the most amazing city I´ve ever been to.

I was walking around in the city yesterday, desperate to breath it all in as much as possible before I take a 3 week break from BCN to visit L.A and Stockholm.

I was sweating, walking in dirty streets, the air smelled (as always) like a mix of poluted air, mold, cigarette smoke, birds, salt water, over ripe peaches and coffee… Weird mix? But I just love it. I walked around for 5 hours in 40 degree celcius (110 farenheit) and I was just smiling nonstop…

I have a strange feeling of separation anxiety at the moment, even though I know it´s just for a limited time. It´s like, my new found love here is still blow away when I turn around.
The city has everything but you can still walk to alost everything. And the city is like a huge scene, something to see everywhere it is SO beautiful. The buildings! I mean, I knew Stockholm is a beautiful city but this, THIS is something that words can not describe.

Going down to Ciudadella now for the last time in 3 weeks, please time – go fast

Absorbing Barcelona

It´s been the hottest day here since I arrived. I got up at 10 to drag my ass to the bottom of my building to be picked up by David and go and play squash. When I walked the stairs up to the big sports-club and then looked out over Barcelona and realized it was already 30 degrees outside I thought it would be a horrible day. 

I was very wrong…

A double espresso (“Café solo”) didn´t help much and when I picked up my racket my motivation was in a completely different world.

BUT, the squash went better than ever. We played so hard, such an intense hour that the floor was totally wet from our dripping sweating competitive arms, hitting that stupid ball nonstop until David finally slipped on the floor from all the sweat!

Quick shower and then we took the car to Premeria del Mar and jumped in the water. Bought tons of fruit and practised spanish for 2 hours. It was windy, so just really really nice.

After that – home – for 1 hour.  Quick shower to get rid of the saltwater and then jogging in Ciudadella with David. I have never met such a perfect sport-friend in my life haha! Tennis, Squash, Padle, Jogging, he is always up for it.

3rd shower for the day and then I have been sitting here infront of the computer enjoying my cafe Del Mar music and the warm breeze coming in from the terrazzo.

Barcelona is a city that has everything but still doesn´t feel as enormous as other cities. There are endless opportunities to do sport, so many beaches, millions of bars, restaurants, clubs, stores and people from all over the world. Still you can reach almost everything by foot.

Big Beso to you Barcelona! I will be back in 3 weeks