linzblog: April 2007

Viva la Feria!

After a bad beginning on day 1 of the Feria de Abril I enjoyed the last two day... I give you a brief overview.. so you can see what we were doing on --> DAY 2: Caseta de José Manuel Silver Cid. TOMA YA!

Viva Sevilla, viva Triana

It's Feria time in Sevilla!!

#1: beautiful Plaza Nueva.
#2-5: Assesoires in every imaginable colour.. ready to make ourselves pretty for the Feria... GUAPAAAS!
#6: Horses and carriages everywhere.. even in the city center...
#7: Flamenca
#8: summer at my rooftop
#9: Thank you Miguel for drawing my plumber...

Digging deep

Salon Helga
Originally uploaded by martina melitta.

So, I'm going back to London, yeay! I got a job there and if my trial period is successful I might even become a British citizen ... Wow, but not so fast. At the moment, I'm mainly concerned with the past. What have I done the last few months, the last few years, in the last decade? I'm archiving again. The basement is filled with little boxes that contain my past. And it is my pleasure now to decide what bits and bobs I will take into my new period of life and what must be left behind. Exhibit A on the right is something I decided to leave in Linz: It's an old cassette that contains a recorded "Salon Helga" episode. I found it next to old Nirvana cassettes and Schröders, and the Kelly Family ... but see for yourself

Julianna's birthday

In the club
Originally uploaded by martina melitta.

Hey Ho! It's been a while. Those are the pictures from my first big night out after the operation (apart from going to A1 in Linz with Roberta)
It was Julianna's birthday in London and after going to the Pub we went to a club called ... ähm, I forgot the name but they served strong drinks there, as you can see from the picture.
Maybe that's why I can't remember the name ;)

Dear Julianna, since you had problems with your camera, I put all the pics I took that night on flickr.

Middle Earth

We go on a roadtrip tomorrow.. Starting in Sevilla, up to Aracena to see a huuuuuuuuuge cave.. then we drive to Jabugo to eat some Jamón Iberico.. and THEN we drive to this huuuuuge whole in the middle of nowhere.. Dunno if you have the movie "The heart of the Earth" in your cinemas back there.. but it was actually shot there and it is all about the bad british people digging holes into the spanish tierra.

And of course we then drive to our beach resort....

everything changes

when you leave a familiar place for a while you think everything stays the same there no? at least I do so. well I did so. But the last two weeks made me change my mind. I noticed that Julia and Marlene actually live in Madrid now, I heard about some break-ups in good old Vienna, Vetsch told me that the MQ-Enzis are beige and ON TOP OF EVERYTHING they take down the Parkbad in Linz??????????? do they even notice that they take away a part of my childhood, youth, life??? how many sunburns did I get there? how many Cornettos did I ~~see~~ eat there? well, that's the price to pay for being Kulturhauptstadt09 I suppose...

maaah es wor so schen!

The girls were here!! And it was a fantastic weekend in Sevilla and Isla Cristina! We finally had great weather, lots of food, lots of drinks, good company with Miguel and I really have to say that I enjoyed travelling with you girlz.. normally I get sick of people quite eeeasy.. but you made it! And we are so proud that you stayed at the village-disco till 7:30!! you nearly beat us! jejejeje... so here some impressions.. I guess there will be more foto-action going on at the cabezitas locas' blog..

#1 breakfast at Pedro's - #2 afternoon breakfast in Isla - #3 totally cheesy foto session at the beach - #4 tanning session.

Ahoi!

I'm off to LONDON.

foto update...

... on flickr

mi cumple

So this was my birthday in Sevilla... kindof in Sevilla.
It started with a fucked up car rental. Andrea and me loaded with bags and easter eggs went to the airport to pick up our car.. got shuttled to the car rental parking "field" meeting our favourite Nizacars cabrón .... 1 hour later we got back to the airport and off we went to the bus station.. Well, we got graded down there.
Next bus in 2 hours. Outside masses of people waiting for a procession. But, being my birthday, we wanted to have a coffee. So we went to Sevilla's "Café Drehscheibe" bar at the bus station and had 2 rum and coke each before falling into a nice sleep in the bus. Once we set a foot on the holy ~~tara~~ tierra of Isla Cristina all the bad birthday stuff was blown away and we walked home in the usual atmosphere: Tuning cars, loud Reggaeton music, the sea and the beach and chicos morenos.
Friday was the day of open mouths, Saturday we were

supposed to have a Romeria-date and dinner with a laywer and a fishermen, which ended up to be a dinner and a weird scenery ft. misinterpretation, goats, and an egg-incubator. Sunday beach-weather and I had a beautiful walk on the beach.. wow. So in the end birthday weekend turned out to be full of weird situations but again loads of new memories..

semana santa, day 3,4.

4 pics from Tuesday. Juli and Rafa eating a Bocadillo at Juli's shop after I worked with Rafa at church.. sounds great, doesn't it? hihihi...

The crowd at our barrio's church - Plaza San Lorenzo - waiting for Jesus to leave..

Yesterday, wednesday, the curch around the corner "El buen fin" had their big day. So many, many Nazarenos ran around in my street. Brown ones.. in the end there were 700 queing up.. Walking with the procession.. passing El bar Rodriguez, our favourite bar for hanging out once in a while. What else? Well normal stuff like little boy dressed up as a priest and more people carrying crosses....

if it didn't...

...happen daily right in front of my eyes I would never ever believe it. How can a person just be sooooo uncapable. Spanish mothers, this is for you: Please kick your boys out of Hotel Mum as soon as possible and BEFORE you let them live with kind of responsible austrian chicas please inscribe them to a domestic work bootcamp.

This is what I found today in my patio. I suppose it is towelling laundry.

Semana Santa day 2: andi's version

My day 2 of Semana Santa was kind of different because it was NOT good. why? Because day 1 was incredible. We kind of failed the common objective (see as many virgins as possible) because after seeing the first we decided a drink would fit into the plan. And if you ever thought rum with coke is disgusting, try rum with sweet wine! That's what I did, and after a few hours talking about crazy-sex-people, sailors, heartbreaker and love stories in my new favourite bar we heard the trumpets again.. huii... a virgin is comming. Drunk and in the dark the whole thing is even more impressing!!!

So this is the reason why day 2 was not that good for me. Spent my day online, translating 5 pages of my Easterholiday work and cooking Gulasch, argh&§%$" and yummy. But today I'm fit again for any Semana Santa action. Bring it on!!! Así se anda señor!

semana santa, day 2

lunes santo. #1: people queing to get into Jesus de Gran Poder Church,

#2:Nazarenos of San Gonzalo, #3: eating Churros, #4: Puente Isabel with Nazarenos.

Yesterday was a good day... went to german class, made 200 sandwiches at my flatmate's shop, got home.. slept 10 minutes... and then met up with Sinan. Didn't go to any procession on purpose yesterday.. Just tried to avoid the masses and sneak through the crowded streets. Didn't work that well... Today Andi and me are starting a Semana Santa trip again, so watch out for new stories..

sharks - uuuahahhhhh

It felt like 20 000 miles under the sea, but it was only a few meters in the Sydney Aquarium. I have never seen that many sharks - and I've seen them all upside down, or rather downside up. The first picture shows me and my friend George and a group of crazy sharks (one of which is ... uhm ... female?) The next picture shows me, a shark and a huge, huge sea turtle, which you can't see, cos the sea is too dark and the flash reflected all the light, but don't my face expression shows it all? This is my next-to-a-turtle-pose ...
And after a while our necks started to hurt, but it was worth it, cos nature revealed some very freaky aspects of its ever so beautiful variety.