los ladrones

This past week has been quite a wild ride with my friend Jenny coming to visit with her friend Ramzy from Brighton. We did a lot more sight seeing and we saw a flamenco show here in Barcelona. On saturday we all took a forty minute train ride to a little beach town to see the Carnaval of Sitges. Carnaval is kind of like halloween wear everyone dresses up except here in spain they like to dress up in groups. like a group of penguins or sheep or pirates or crayons.

here is an older photo from La Macarena in Sevilla. You can go up around the back and see the cape too.



here are the tapas I ate while filming the little video you may have seen! the left was the paella, in the middle is calamari fried, and patatas bravas on the right. Patatas bravas are some of the most amazing foods of spain. It's fried potato pieces with a hot sauce and mayonnaise or like at this place its a spicy aioli on top. These were by far the best ones i have had here in spain.


Another macarena figure I think, most of the time they are crying.


Here are some orange trees! these are all over the streets in Sevilla


Carnaval!


On the beach


In other news, I kind of am starting to miss the comforts of home. Jasmine Deli and vietnamese noodle soups, riding my bicycle, this is odd but I miss wearing big heavy coats, cooking giant meals for myself, hamburgers made of ground beef and not ham, thrift stores and being able to use my telephone without worrying about the bill. Until June I will wait.

Here's a little video of the flamenco show we saw in Barcelona, which turned out to be better than the one Sevilla, surprisingly. From what I've gathered Flamenco is all about the build up. It's like a lot of slow motions and then a big finale. Seeing it here in a video makes it seem not that cool but its very exciting in person. This time that we saw it the dancer only came out for the second half. So it was like music music waiting waiting and the dancer would come out and you'd be like oh my god for like 20 minutes and then it was over. And then they had an intermission and they would do it all again.


Flamenco in Barcelona! from Jack Randol on Vimeo.