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UUJEA, back from Barcelona. Lähtöä edeltävät päivät olivat
melkoisia nekin, sillä Kärpät pelasi lätkäfinaaleja Tapparaa vastaan (taas), ja
ehdittiin paikankin päälle tsiigaamaan Game Five. Edeltävä viikonloppu alkoi keväisellä
biitsikävelyllä Nallikarissa ja leffaillalla, vuorossa ”The Wolf Of Wallstreet”,
90-luvun klassikko ”Fargo, Tom Hanksin uutuus ”Cpt. Phillips” sekä Losin
traagisiin ihmiskohtaloihin paneutuva ”Powder Blue”.
Vappuhulinat starttasivat Koitelissa väitöstilaisuuden
jatkoilla ja seuraavana päivänä aaton juhlinnalla meidän Penthousessa. Tigeri
ja Miia olivat niin älylaitteidensa lumoissa, että katsoin paremmaksi koodata
Nitrolle ja jatkaa vappuaaton viettoa Heinäpäässä. Heitettiin läppää, minkä
jälkeen kierrettiin vielä kaikki Oulun täyteenahdetut baarit lävitse – vain Hemingwayssä
mahtui istumaan. Tikru heräili meidän sohvalta seuraavana aamuna, joten
päätettiin miksailla meikän elektroprojektin biisejä tappaaksemme aikaa.
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Next Stop – BARCELONA!
5.5.2015
Woke up early for the morning flight, first to Helsinki. 7 o’clock we’re sitting
in a cab and picking Tiger up from Höyhtyä. A weird thing happens when getting
in the plane. Some Arabian guy starts to claim that my Hilfiger watch would
belong to him. FUCK THAT! After champagne drinkin’ were finally on our way to
Barca. Margarita is already at the airport waiting for us and we hire a car for
the week from Hertz. It’s chaotic in the city so we try to park the car for like…five
hours. After a necessary picnic in the car we finally find a spot from Montjuic
Hill. Crazy… A taxi driver brings us to Gracia City Hostel, finally.
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6.5.2015
The place we stay in is absolutely awesome! Cool atmosphere with youngsters and
hips managing the place, with all those good-morning-breakfasts, those will
make a perfect combination. We’re up pretty early for Sagrada Familia, Casa
Battlo and Casa Mila. Just around the corner of Southern La Rambla, there’s a
tapas bar named La Taberna Del Portus which offers 10 tapas’ for 20 euros. We
walk through the Barceloneta Beach to twin towers of World Trade Center and
then all the way back to Garcia.
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7.5.2015 Visiting
in Parc Guell is important for my gf cause she admires that kind of architecture
style or whatever by Gaudi. Later we walk through the old town of Barca, El
Barre Gotic all the way to the side streets of El Raval for some pinchos’ in a
place called Bar International Beer – how cleverly named!
8.5.2015
Time for the practices of Formula One. We’re there drinking beer and suddenly
realize that they’re selling fuckin’ non-alcoholic drinks there. What a shame!
We eat self-made pinchos’ in our hotel room and the portion includes also a
SMALL pot of caviar, YAMMY!
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9.5.2015
Qualification Session goes under the expectations for Finnish drivers,
Räikkönen & Bottas. On the way back to our hotel, the freeway is blocked
cause of some accident. So we end up eating outside in a place called Boqueria
98 which offers tapas’ from the table and some drinks. The place was okay!
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10.5.2015
We’re there at the race track with the official t-shirts and watching the race.
Unfortunately Finnish drivers finished 4th and 5th but
the atmosphere was PERFECT. Later we order some paellas in Patagonia Restaurant
at La Rambla.
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11.5.2015
We’re up early for a road trip to Andorra. If you’d like to do the same, I’d
prefer the smaller road – NOT the E-freeway cause you’d have to pay about 40
euros for the expensive road tolls and you wouldn’t actually see anything. We
took the A2-road which zigzagged through Igualada, Ponts, Organya, El Pla De
Sant Tirs and La Seu d’Urgell to Andorra La Verra and all the way to Soldeu.
The views were amazing, I’d compare them to California’s 1-motorway and to
Iceland. Though it was almost 30 outside, you could still spot some snow there
in Andorra. They have pretty good slopes there during the winters I guess. As
soon as we were back in Passeig De Gracia it was time for some quality,
fashionable dinner in Divinus. After bowls of Sangria I thought it’s still not
enough so we bought some more and did put on parties in the hotel room. Later
we walked to a party-hard nightclub, small Espit Chupitos on Carrer d’Aribau. Recommending!
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12.5.2015 The
last day in Barcelona. Had to see legendary Camp Nou for the first thing and later
we dropped by Bershka & Desigual for some summer clothing. Also visited the
old University Main Building on Gran Via Catalanes. Centro Comercial De Las
Arenas offered lots of shops but was kinda disappointment.
13.5.2015 An
early-morning-cab to Fundacio Joan Miro, near the Olympic Swimming Stadion
where our car was parked. Soon we’re having breakfast at the airport and just little
late back in rainy Finland. Gotta say – one of the best trips ever!