Listening to: Kaskade - Love Mysterious album.
Mexike-ska (mĕk'sĭ-kĕ's-kă): Mexico with the Slovenes.
So, this will be a bit more like a couple of blogs because there are quite a number of good pictures. To summarize, Katja and Gregor came to Mexico for their holidays during christmas time, they had the chance to go to quite a number of states, including Puebla, Veracruz, Morelos, Chiapas, so on and so forth. I met them on the last week of their trip and took them to see a bit more which included time with my friends and family. It was quite a lot of fun to hear the remarks from their point of view.
So of course they had a kick with Tequila. We first stayed at Jazmin&Eduardo's a couple of friends from the university. It was great to see my friends from those days, and though some things have changed, we can still get people drunk:
Eduardo, Katja and Gregor.
Well, my dear friend was much too big for the door frames from Mexico, he had quite some trouble once in Taxco actually, that was the first time I heard him swear in slovene, ha!. Anyhow, this is at Jaz's
Eduardo crashed with a parked trailer (really, how the fuck did he do that?), and ended up with one of those neck thingies, which of course was the prop of the night.
Katja had a bit of trouble with sun burns. She had her hand all burnt unevenly, but it was temporal, I think she's ok already.
Gregor was excited about hats during the whole trip, he brought back like 3 of them.
Actually this should've been the first picture. I met K&J on the 3rd of January in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas. That day Gregor was sick (it was too cold for him, go figure), and so Katja and I toured the town and did some shopping.
The day after we went to Tuxtla Gutierrez and droped our bags there, then we headed to Chiapa de Corzo were we visited the Cañon del Sumidero
These were definitely foreigners (or just drunk, pick your choice), they decided to swim in the waters of Rio Grijalva, source for the biggest power plant of the region, of warm temperature and infested with crocodiles.
After Chiapas we went to Puebla were we visited my Bro and Sis. They took us to a bar in Los Sapos which featured Trova music.
We also went to Taxco after we were in Puebla. There we visited my friends Sergio and Gwendy. Sergio had the "great" idea of taking us to "El cerro del Tepozteco" which is a decently high hill (about 1.5 km, almost straight up), to which of course I was unprepared, my shoes almost ripped apart and I was exhausted. First we actually went for lunch to a quite nice restaurant.
And this is the Tepozteco
Alright this post is long enough, I will stop here and put more pictures later.
Mexike-ska
Deutschland ... where the deutscher live
Listening to: Camille, Le Fil album.
Reading: The God Delusion.
Watching: 24's 6th season (yeah baby!)
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Very creative name, I know.
Anyhow, today in lifeless' biography, we have a glimpse to what our hero did at the land of the germans, otherwise known as 'germany'.
It all happened in the summer of 2005 when, as a young blooming researcher, lifeless headed north from his austrian reisdence, to the land of the Rhein. It is there where he had the chance to meet -once again-, his friend, Mira, who allowed him to spend a few days at her cottage.
Wait, writting like this is difficult .... er..., this triggers a memory, maybe Kirsten could help .... well, whatever ...
So, long story short, I went to germany (for the first time) to a conference in Bonn, but since it is not so far from Saarbruecken, I decided to visit Mira. This was in July 2005 if I remember correctly. Small anecdote: I first went to Cologne, then I realized I couldnt get money out of my bankcard; I phoned Mira asking her for some cash (she didnt like that); I took a train from Cologne to Saarbruecken; took the money; 1 hour later took a train from Saarbruecken to Bonn; attended the conference; took a train to Saarbruecken; paid her the money back (yes I did pay her back); and then I had some time to enjoy with her and her friends.
She called some of her friends so we could have a small BBQ by the river, they were cool people, also Bulgarians by the way,
And this is Mira preparing some Sausages,
Well, it turned out that Saarbruecken was a bit, eerrrr......, boring, so we headed to Trier where a festival was going on and Mira had some friends, place was really crowded.
We found a spanish group playing spanish music with spanish flavor. There I saw this girl (on the left, seems dancing). She was quite cute and a good dancer so she deserved a click.
So, we headed to one of the concerts, there we found these "cool" guys (please, please, notice the quotation marks)
Oh, this is me and Mira, she has posed a couple of times for me, go check her at my dA Website
Well, it turned out that her friends had a band, so we went to see them. There a bunch of Portuguese kids were partying alright. It was funny because one of my friend's friends jumped and smiled like a bunny, hehhehe, he was the bass player (do bunnies smile?)
Holy Mother of Jesuschrist our Savior and Redeemer check out the size of my head!! Anyway, that's Mira driving me to Koeln's airport, she's way cool and nice (or she wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible).
This was her car, and inside the airport I found a Paisano.
So, thats it, I wont post pics from Koeln and Bonn cause they're boring.
Express summer break in croatia to go please (the sequel)
Alright, I will finish posting the pics of my break to Croatia. Wait, where was I last time?, oh yeah!, in Zagreb, so we continue there
Question: What is the thing with Europeans and dogs?, I thought this was only a bizarrity (no idea if this word even exists) of the Austrians, but no, it seems that the Spaniards are no exception.
And these are the girls enjoying their last day in Zagreb, they didnt want to leave; they loved the city. However, I forced them to go to the beach with me ...
So we headed to Krk, on a bus leaving from door 402, another few hours on our butts, just to see a bit of coast.
And then we arrived in Krk, a city that in its own way reminded me of Piran in Slovenia. Now, in this picture I want to bring to your attention the size of the bag. We went for three days and two nights to Croatia, and that BIG red bag is what Paki needed. Of course, she made Mercedes and me carry it for her. I will never travel with women again ... *shakes head and scowls*
No pictures please!. That night we went to the harbor and had a few coctails outdoors. It was indeed quite nice, half drunk we went back to the hotel which was not far away.
Then, the day after we went finally to the beach, this is me and Mercedes playing freezby in the cool croatian waters.
I know Paki will kill me for posting this pic, but look how clear the water is!
After buying souvenirs, the one thing we all had to buy were shoes since these beaches do not have sand but only rocks (I actually already owned these shoes).
And with this pic I finish this story, it was a cool summer break with my friends, one like very few i've had, hopefully it will repeat again somehow. Hope you guys liked the pics, take care o' ya selfs.