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Showing posts with label madrid. Show all posts
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Magical Madrid

I love Madrid.

They really know how to celebrate bank holiday weekends here, and this one is the most popular as it’s the festivo de San Isidro. The lantern lit streets are tinted with a 24 hour buzz from Thursday onwards and crammed with the young and old alike.

Watching the hubbub below from 6th floor balconies, spectacular views, dancing in squares with fountains and bongos, dancing to the big band in the palace gardens, 6am metro home, tintos de verano at dusk, i have never,  sun kissed skin, drinking cañas, La Latina. Delightful.

Now I have what is called the delayed Monday hangover and I need to sleep.

I never want to leave this place..




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treats from the flea market



the rastro is bargain basement.
the big leather bag smells of cow
i need febreeze

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too hot to sleep.

With the no-tights short shorts and sandal wearing weather, comes dirty old viejos verdes. That’s Spain for you. i smell of suntan lotion, i can't bare to sleep under my duvet and at the weekend, i had a 4 hour battle with a mosquito in the early hours. A can of L'Oreal Elnett was my chosen weapon.

Summer is here. Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

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my dear friend Sophie



Ever since she encouraged me to start a blog, I've promised her I'd dedicate a blog to her.

1.       People here in Spain can’t pronounce her name, so some call her Shopie instead.

2.       She absolutely loves Scholl foot products and doesn’t stop talking about how much she wants all of them.

3.       Her biggest fear is that someone will make her count absolutely every single grain of sand in the world.

4.       She used to set her alarm at like 5am so she could shower and then go back to sleep before work, until she realised that this is the most stupid idea in the world.

5.       She is currently en paro. Which is Spanish for unemployed. She got fired because of the crisis.

6.       She thinks she hates a lot of things.

7. My favourite thing to do with her is laugh.

8.       She’s obsessed with Ebay and watches on average about 10 things at a time.

9.  She’s even more obsessed with Kano, and doesn’t fail to mention him at least once a day.

10.       When she is quoting what someone else says, she always puts on the same voice.

11.   She introduced me to two of the best Spanish cereals I have ever tasted in my life; Chocolate Pillows and Crousty 4 fruits. We eat them from mugs.

12.   When she’s drunk or falling asleep she has what we like to call a limp hand, or the K-hole hand.

13.   When she got DC++, instead of downloading amazing films, she downloaded utter shit like Night at the museum and Just my luck.

14.   Everytime she asks if we should watch a film, I always say The Break-Up, and she always says no.

15.   She always wants to watch The Business, to which my reply is no. So we always end up watching Grey's Anatomy.

16.   She likes to throw clothes on innocent Spanish strangers while they’re sleeping.

17.   She once got asked to go for churros and cocaine with Mike Skinner in Madrid. She went, but turned down the cocaine.

18.   She likes to dance to the music in Carrefour which attracts attention from the check out boys.

19. She cooks goooooood food.

18.   She loved this French boy for a while. And she loves Chuck Bass.

19.   She nearly cried once after a Columbian got a little too carried away.

20. She always sings the first line of Candle in the Wind.

21.   She's a sexy little critter she is. Hahahahaha.

22. We like to talk in lithp to one another. Eg. You're tho methy thopie. 

23. She has strangely perfect nails. 


Sofi Sofi, Sofi Sofa, cada dia te quiero maaaaaaas.

 

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Monday Monday, so good to me


8am wake up. Don’t snooze at all today. Muesli with about 2 tablespoons of sugar. Fit in some reading time on metro. Work more chilled than last week as people are actually answering their phones today. Everything functions on a Monday.

11.05am. Online banking tells me student loans are in. Hello.

Get sent out to shops to collect things. Despite a taxi driver yelling at me as I made him go through about 10 one way systems to three different places and wait for me each time I went to get something, it was quite nice being driven around. One of my fav shops in Madrid is called Ekseption which stocks everything from The Row to Oscar de La Renta. Anyway, they had these really cute fluorescent style string bracelets with mother of pearl charms by Aurelie Bidermann. Couldn´t shop on the job unfortunately.

2pm. Go to the most amazing beautician called Alice in Wonderland. It even has a mini-sized door and it IS actually wonderland. Quaint French music, flower wallpaper, teacups and bunny rabbits. Walk around chic Chueca with Shopie and keep seeing amazing restaurants. I wish I lived there. We avoided the magnetic pull of all the bistros but finally gave in and had a menu del día at cute little Italian restaurant. Doughy bread is the best.

Continue strolling in the sun and we find an awesome Californian sunglass brand called Sabre. Gave in and bought a wide framed aubergine pair a la Juno. Not the cheapest of sunny Gs I have to admit. I cannot under any circumstance break these ones. I call it the first day loan syndrome- first day expenditure does not count. I should have bought more.

6pm. Gym gym. Realise it’s actually a steam room not a sauna they have in the changing room. Yes! Fortunately not busy. Went mental on the steppers and my iPod didn’t run out of battery which is usually what happens as I am incapable of charging anything to full battery. Tengo agujetas hasta las orejas.

10pm. Fruit salad and Spanish TV with Soph. Still don’t like kiwis mate.

Now. Uninterrupted Grey’s Anatomy in duvet. Perfect.