Graffiti and Street Art Tour

Art lives in every corner, in any part of the world. Madrid’s streets are full of colours, messages, paintings, thoughts and art in all its different shapes. I believe that art is an expression of endless variations. Vandalism and destrucion is not a part of this.

I don’t believe that the urban space is only destined for commercial agencies, companies, and politicians. Commercial is the only thing aloud by the law. It’s a mistake, the public space is for all. (Calma)

With this in mind, me, a couple of friends and couchsurfers did a Graffiti and Street Art tour in Madrid. Together we captured and absorbed wild art. We walk around Malasaña, a neighbour hood in the city center north of Madrid. We ended the tour in a bar called El 13 Tribal, where they have a couple of Banksys paintings and art. Later on we ate pizza and drank beer at plaza Ildefonso. The Madrid way. then we celebrated that jesús received a important scholarship. all in all a wonderful night.

peace and love

im really enjoying the summer in spain :) spending the days in pools or parks and when the sun goes down friends and a millions of bars are keeping me company. I recently got back from Ibiza with my love. We spent some really nice days in the beach taking it easy. Ibiza is a beautiful island with a lot of party spirit. We where probably the only ones not cruising all the huge clubs. But I liked it, the beaches where so nice and we had the good luck of living close to one of the worlds most beautiful sunsets.

peace

Vacaciones en el norte

muuu

por los campeones

Gamoneu

Mis papis vinieron a Madrid con sus amigos malagueños. Se quedaron un día para partir el día después hacía el norte de España, específicamente el pueblo Gamoneu (cerca de cangas de onis),Asturias. Este sitio es verdaderamente una maravilla. Todo verde, tranquilo y perdido. Una pausa del caos de Madrid y el mundial. Hacemos excursiones por montañas, pueblos pequeños y disfrutamos de la gastronomía asturiana. ¡Me encanta el norte!

la roja

right now, i'm in the right country. last nights game Spain vs. Germany ended like a surprise for many of us. 1-0 and Spain is in the FINALS i can't believe it. as you may know i'm not a big sports fan but this is incredible. and last night madrid was crazy crazy. people where celebrating al over madrid and sol (the city center) was absolutely packed with happy españoles. all dough last night was a very happy one i want to send my love to all my german friends (you were so close :)).

unfortunately i'm not in madrid for the finals. i'm going to Asturias with my parents and their friends 10-14 of july. so i´ll see the game in the north :)

heat and more heat

Gay Pride, Madrid

its sooooo warm now. the hole winter i've been complaining about the bad weather and claiming my right to sun. Well, now i'm not aloud to complain...but its sooooo warm. Since i'm adjusted quite well to the madrid society i'm hiding underneath al the shadows i can find and spending hours in the public pools.

From sweat to highlights. Madrid has these days been filled up with gay pride ppl and world cup ppl. Al together a intense atmosphere. The headlines of the papers in madrid define it like: Gay pride in between games. The gay neighborhood Chueca was completely crazy the whole week, i didn't expect less :) So the days has practically consisted in all that; gay parties, world cup games, swimming pools, ice coffees in the shadow AND a second trip to toledo with a couple of friends.

Me like.

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Puerto Santa Maria, Cádiz

a million things has happen these past weeks.

I really like my persian classes :) we’r learning the alphabet and how to write.

I really like going to the tango lesions in Patio Maravillas.

I really like the recycle book workshop. I now know how to make an entire book J

I really like seeing The Village People live (im getting pumped up for 3 of july, gay pride in Madrid)

I really don’t like goodbyes. A lot of my erasmus friends are returning home and leaving Madrid a bit worse.

I really like my vacacions in the south. Spent 3 days in Puerto, Cádiz next to the beach with my love. It was the first time I felt like not going back to Madrid.

salam doostãne aziz!

so, i did survive these intensive weeks of exams. mostly with the support of a wonderful person, thanks :) and today two big things are going down. im having my first class of Farsi, or persian :D this is a thing i've been wanting to do for a long time so im super exited! and later on today im moving to my new apartment :)

khodafes!

on the move

i got it! im moving to a new room in between the area lavapiès and la latina :D 10 min walk to the centercenter. Its a big apartment with 4 rooms, my room is big, it has a high sealing and a window facing the street. Im so glad! Its going to be really cool moving to a new neighborhood...all dough i all ready lived in la latina before.

So yes, the weekend was very very good. We had a crazy warm weather. My examen went well. I learned how to make recycled books. I also learned that there are some really interesting people in madrid :). I met up with some swedish friends and showed them a bit of madrid. Later on i met up with a german, a italian, a mexican and spanish friends. We made malasaña rock and ended up singing songs from the 90 and drinking wine in my room. The day after i spent some steaming hours in Casa de Campo and ate from the latin barbecue (mmm). Tried to avoid the crazy football supporters. Had botellón in Templo de Debod with some wonderful people.

And to day i had a lot of study anxiety :( so normally i called my parents (witch made me very happy), watched a lot of Simpson episodes, washed my clothes and cleaned my room. very productive.

my mind is spinning

im done studying for to day. tomorrow i have an exam in my course organizations and international relations. my head is filled with worries about my exams and at the same time i'm also looking for a new room to rent. can´t seem to find the time for everything. tomorrow will look at two rooms in the barrio lavapiés, its the bohemian/multicultural zone of madrid. all dough i absolutely love my barrio malasaña i think its going to be a nice change.

after the exam and the flat- searching tomorrow im going to my first workshop of books cartoneras. Its a workshop for volunters to help out with creating recycled books. I guess i will know more after my first workshop :)

After that im meeting up with some swedish university friends thats visiting madrid this weekend. And for the night i'm still doubting if i'm going to Gogol Bordellos concert. I've never seen them live and i'm sure i will love it....but its quite expensive.....

yes, i have a lot of things on my mind and its spinning. i guess i will calm down after i found a room. wish me good luck to morrow!

peace and love

felizfelizfeliz

si! hace mucho tiempo que no escribo nada y el tiempo pasado es demasiado rico para resumirlo en texto. Igual voy a intentarlo:

- Visita de mi amiga alemana

- Fiestas de San Isidro. disfrutamos de gran via de forma peatonal, baile madrileño tradicional, espectaculos de magos y baile, botellónes grandes y concierto de Emir Kusturica!

- Mi cumpleaños, por cierto quiero agradecer a todos por mandarme mail, saludos y mensajes de distancias tan lejanas. y agradecer a toda la gente maravillosa que celebraron conmigo. estaba suuuuper feliz :D

estas semanas increíbles lo voy a resumir con esta canción que me gusta mucho: mandarinas y pomelos

you can feel it in the air.

People are smiling, birds are singing, the sun is shining, a boy dribbles his football on c/ colón, crowded streets, couples kissing, a clown is trying to entertain the young people drinking by plaza Ildefonso. It’s not my imagination. Spring has come to Madrid. So, go out in the sun and enjoy the 15 min of d-vitamins that your body requires each day.

I myself have a nice weekend to come. Last night I enjoyed the streets of Madrid with some lovely people. Today I have a nice visit from Denmark, and later on a concert. A band witch I already seen 2 times before but can’t get enough from: Che Sudaka. And Saturday my flatmates and me are thinking of a bike ride in Casa de campo. Not bad.

Coplas

My music taste is very very broad but I never thought I would like Coplas. Although that all changed after seeing the teather piece No me hables de Felipe V. The piece is about a crazy man telling his life story and his life goal: Sing a Copla to his mother on the moon. His monolog and singing are incredible. It was one of those pieces that’s on for a month and I thought I would never see it again. I recently heard that they are doing a couple of more shows :D You can see it in the alternative theater Nudo Teatro in Malasaña. I strongly recommend you to go and see it!

Here is one song I really like :) Romance de Valentía.

adventures in the south

Plan loco:

Party Thursday night, don’t sleep just go directly to the bus station were you meet your friend to catch the 7 am bus to Granada. Sleep in the bus. Be one with the bus.

You arrive around 12. Eat some sandwiches from the supermarket. Take a nap in the Alhambra Park. Be one with nature. Enjoy the most beautiful town in Spain. Meet up with some friends, eat tapas, have some Alhambra beers then sangria from los chinos and enjoy the massive botellón (drinking in the streets). Sleep in some park. Be one with nature again.

Catch the 12 o’clock bus to Santa Fe (a village outside of Granada). Find your way to the underground/illegal Dragoff Festival by following kind hippies. Get there exhausted. Make camp and friends with some more kind hippies. Take a nap. Be one with the tent. Inaugurate your new shisha: Ramses. Enjoy the crazy and alternative festival. Be upset for the rain. Dance with punkies, hippies and perroflautas. Slip around in the mud. Be extremely happy for your borrowed rain boots. Buy a vegan hamburger from some german hippies. Get to know their 4 year old daughter called Luna. Sleep. Be one with the rain pool in your tent.

Wake up. Feel helpless for your wet clothes. Find your way back to Santa Fe by following hippies. Arrive in Granada at 13.10. Feel tired cuz your bus back to Madrid went at 13. Buy a new ticket. Arrive in Madrid tired, (still) wet, muddy but happy. Oh, so happy to be home.

a couple of downs. a lot of pluses

These last couple of days has been filled with ups and downs. mostly ups :)

- Cold (with fever!)

- Infection in my piercing again! im taking antibiotics for the infection to go down and on the 24th of this month im taking it out!

+ Dj Steve Aokis gig at sala Heiniken

+Dinner in the dark, its as simple as the name. You simply eat in the dark flavouring the unknown food. This one gets an extra plus for the great host how also served chupitos (shots) in the darkness.

+ Danish dinner with the flat mates, must say that the Danish meatballs are better then the Swedish ones.

+ Concert: La roux. This one gets a – as well, but I learned my lesson: concerts where the bands only have one album are simply toooooo short. But I did enjoy the performance and the live music :)

+ Sunshine! We have sunshine! I feel completely filled with light, spring and happiness.

+ The Brian Jonestown Massacre, after a day of (intent of) studying at a friends house we watched the film Dig! A documentary about two rock bands in the unites states. Well, now I’m very fond of the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. A nice song: Anenome Anemone Amenome Anemomnuonme Anenomznomz

peace and love

What a day!

What a wonderful day! A day to be proud of being a woman. Proud over the power that a joined movement can do for the rest of the world. For the advances witch affect half of the worlds population. It’s something that we definitely should think about everyday.

my enthusiasm kind of got let down when I heard about a quite stupid definition of the international women’s day. The key question was: Do we want equality in all levels? Do we want men’s negatives side as well? Like dictatorship or burping in public? Okey, I know the article was quite ironic but still, I got...tired.

Equality is not about breaking the patterns in the sense that women should start behaving like men. For me it’s about breaking pattern in the society and in our individual behaviour towards equality. Either way, I guess we all have different definitions of what feminism means to us. I’m curious about your opinion!? english spanish swedish men women or something unidentified. Write and get your thoughts out!

Peace!

den svenska skammen

hur kommer det sig att mina spanska vänner kan mer om svensk musik än mig? som musikälskare ger det mig en stor skam. nåväl, ville dela med mig av denna otroligt sköna låt som en kompis rekommenderade mig. videon är inte dum den heller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCijqgW9Rw

från svensk musik till det svenska språket. jag pratar nästan ingen svenska här i madrid och det märktes igår när jag pratade med ett par småländska vänner. jag uttrycker mig på ett spanskt/engelskt/svenskt sätt. jag använde diskotek som klubb (inte okey!!!). skammen är för stor, kan väl lika gärna stanna här.

puss o kräm

La Pija Greenpeace

I guess its always interesting to know what other people think of you. The picture that you give the people you meet everyday and even more interesting: the picture that people have of you that knows you really well.

(that’s why I like the game orangino so much http://www.orangino.com/)

Since my time in Madrid i´ve heard some really funny descriptions of me. But the ones that amuse me the most is: La Pija (spanish word for snob) and Green Peace. In my opinion theres 4 reasons for the nick Pija:

- Spanish people think that snowboarding (due to my snowbord trip to Andorra) is a sport for snobs. Witch I kind of understand because, well, Spain is not the snowiest country.

- At one occasion I told that I did horse riding when I was little. This is more understandable but a lot of my (girl) friends did that when they were young as well but non of us comes from the Bernadotte family neither do we have mussel lunch everyday of the week.(hm might not of done that ever)

- My use of mac products

- The fact that im from Sweden, yeah we are all millionaires.

And the other “nick” Green Peace came after I put a note in the kitchen of how we should recycle. Yeah, ok I was tired of the mix in the garbage and to recycle is soooooo easy. And what other (maybe Swedish) way of dealing with the problem is better then putting up a note?

The other day my flatmates and me made dinner and the night ended with the game: everybody must say one positive subjective of another person. Talk about a confidence bust! Don’t know if it was the wine, the great compliments or simply being around people that likes you but we all were close to tears! Summa summarum: you are what you are: you.

Kärlek och Fred!

This is not a blog.

Well, I just sold my soul to google. I didn’t want to open a blog with google since they have all the right of your publications, pictures and etc. But now it is done. And I have no soul anymore. So, you can stop praying for me now.

I guess this blog is going to me a mix language of English, Spanish and Swedish. But since English is more international (im waiting for Esperanto to expand more) it’s going to be the dominant language.

Welcome and remember: this is not a blog.