Saturday, April 21, 2007

Welcome to Barcelona

Time 00:23. We just got al dressed up or rather tidied up. Anna hand me a helmet and saiz.. welcome to barcelona… we take the lift down and jump onto the back of her vespa. This does not happen to me very often. It was for sure the best way to get around. We were off to A club called Sylk to meet up with her friend Paula. After an adrenaline pumping scooter dice through town we arrive. Sylk is a super futuristic space ages style club that’s very narrow and kinda squashes everyone up against the cool décor. Paula is a charismatic and positive chick, with many blessings in the *** department. We have a red bull vodka to start the night off. Around one we go to Another club right next to Sylk called Bubblic.. it turns out to be boring but we hang around and we wait for some time to pass, its still too early to go to the proper place…. We wait its getting around 02:00 and im starting to feel tired. Anna notices and says that we push on to ‘Otto’ the place to be .. a three level club with some of the fanciest décor and best music in town. Anna is just about VIP , she gets us in free with a free drink, anna’s friend Carol joins us. 4 Girls in the top VIP floor of ‘Otto’ ….. whoopee… only problem was that I couldn’t keep my eyes open, I stood there yawning like a freak, I couldn’t keep my mouth closed. S***. Time passes slowly and im just not getting into the vibe, anna claims its because her windsurfing friends arnet there cioz they went out the previous night… ok I push on. Its hard. And then…anna decide to drag me to the bottom floor.. where they play Hip hop/R&B…. the people on each floor are very different just like the music. Ilike that. Somehow I seem to fit in better with the more average casuals at the bottom. Anna shoves a tequila down my throat and tell me to wake up or im gona have stayed for nothing, the best part of the night was just starting,…. Ok cool. I shake my head and drag paula and carol onto the dancefloor and start dancing again. And suddenly im awake. We push back to the top floor, and my return is noticed. Here we all jump on the dancefloor, the people have doubled and the music had been turned up, we dance wildly and funnily for the next three hours. Now I am sweaty and thirsty But it seems we have provided a good show since everyone we met has joined us ,shaking, laughing and complementing us on our different approach. All good. An old Cattelan word was brought to surface: Arrabivat. The Awakeningi(I think)…. this dedicated to my transformation form sleepy to hyperactive. Eventually there is no more space to move its so full , the party is far from over, but we decide to go home its 06:00. We cruise back jump in bed and fall asleep 06:30. Man o man. What a welcome to spain…

Time 11:00 wake up a little check the time and go back to sleep. Time 13:00 Wake up, eat some breakfast jump in the car with anna, we check out the club natació barcelona in la Barceloneta. Its huge. Meet a couple of Anna’s friends and contacts and have a coupla café con Leche’s ……… I feel better. We then starp her two new naish windsurfing boards to the roof and drive to Calella, a small town 90min north of Barcelona. Its close to Girona. Its beautiful. It’s a place anna has been coming to for years while growing up. It’s the perfect holiday town. We cruise around and I get introduced to almost everyone. It gets cold and we make some veggie soup… for sure a good idea. Afterwards we watch The Departed( Rating: Excellent,) and go to sleep as early as possible.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

"Arrabivat", love it xD the funiest story about first barcelonas contact i've ever heard. Glad to hear that you like it :)