Confused by the title? I suppose I need to give a bit of background information.
(Stereo MC’s – “Connected”)
September 22nd 2008 we signed up for a 20Mb ADSL line with Jazztel here in Spain. Unfortunately for us we basically got skanked.
Telefonica (the national phone company) came out to set up the line but Jazztel [...]
Going home for Christmas was weird.
I loved it. That can’t be denied.
But it was really odd.
At first I thought that things had changed or people were acting different. But everything was just how it always was. ‘Cept for me.
Being in the family home was one of the first things to strike me as being [...]
There is no better song to sum up my feelings right now. Let the Christmas festivities begin:
Spain’s a ridiculously diverse country. I feel I can say that completely unqualified given the travelling I’ve done over the past weekend. From the famous-beach filled south to the desert landscapes of central Spain to the lush green, snow-capped, Lord-of-The-Rings-worthy scenery of the North, this weekend has made me realize, amongst other things, that Spain [...]
Thursday, 11 December 2008
10am: Bus – Granada -> Madrid
5pm: Bus – Madrid -> Bilbao
Lord knows how I got up for the first bus but I made it. The night before I’d gone out with Laura, Bethan, Amy, Alec and Steve for a night that turned out to be much longer than I had planned [...]
November 27-30: Barcelona
December 11-15: Bilbao
Last Friday (October 10th) I made the journey from Granada up to Salamanca. Niamh had generously invited myself and Hughie to crash at her place for the weekend while we party it up in the frog obsessed city (more on that later).
This is what my journey looked like (you may have to zoom out [...]
We had a day off uni on October 6th. We had no idea why. No other unis in the country seemed to have that day off. We didn’t complain. We did however decide we needed a bit of this:
So thanks to Laura’s fabulous organisation skills, we hopped on the 9am bus [...]
Music.
I love it.
I think everybody who knows me knows that. One of the things I was truly dreading about coming to Spain was being away from the music I liked. I expected to hear nothing but Spanish language music and the occasional mainstream international chart success.
That’s why Vogue surprised me. We only went [...]
As promised I’ve uploaded a guided tour of the apartment. Check it out below:
Less than 60 hours in the city and we’ve found a place.
Actually less than 20 hours in the city and we’d found the place and said we’d take it.
We arrived Tuesday afternoon after an early flight from Dublin, a taxi from Malaga airport to Malaga bus station, a bus from Malaga to Granada, another bus [...]
Had a look at the countdown timer on the right –>
I have less than 15 hours.
But I STILL don’t feel like I’m going away.
I haven’t got upset once when saying goodbye to anyone.
I haven’t had any moments of serious nostalgia.
It’s like I’m totally emotionally detached from the experience. I suppose the main reason why [...]
and to do so, they need an appropriate soundtrack.
Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway (from the album “Breakaway”)
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Taio Cruz – Fly Away (from the album “Departure”)
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Nicole Kidman – One Day I’ll Fly Away [Tony Phillips Remix] (from the album “Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann’s Film, Vol. 2″)
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Madonna – Miles Away (from the album “Hard Candy”)
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Goldfrapp – [...]
It was an ambitious adventure.
Work from 9 to 5 on the Wednesday
Fly out to London at 8am on the Thursday.
Return home at 10:30pm.
Work from 9 to 5 on the Friday followed by after work drinks which went on til the wee hours.
But we did it.
And all in the name of this:
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I think we looked fairly [...]
Y’know when you have a song that always reminds ya of a certain time or place? Forevermore will I remember the third weekend of August that I spent in Galway when I hear either of the following:
[The Velvet Underground - "I'm Sticking With You"]
[Antsy Pants - "Vampire"]
No no. It wasn’t my [...]
