Travelling Around Imperial Capitals II

In Budapest it is worthy to spend several days, so many things to see! I would like to explain in more detail but I left forgotten all the information in Spain. Anyway, I strongly recommend this destination.

So today I will show a bit of how was my second and third (and last) day in Budapest, and I will leave Prague to the following post.

8th March

So our second day was with quite good weather too, just a few clouds, and of course cold , but it let us to visit around a lot of places. First we went to the opera, and inside they were selling tickets, and by checking prices I realised it was very cheap, you cannot imagine! And moreover that night was “Carmen” great opera so we bought right then tickets for that night.

The day was just starting and we went down the most known street in Budapest, Andrassy Ut, must-see above all, that finishes in the Heroes Square, where is the tomb to the unknown soldier and the National Museum. By the way, the national Museum was holding an exposition of three Spanish painters.



Andrassy Ut

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Heroes square


El Greco, Velázquez and Goya, thre great Spanish painters in the National Museum

After this, the city park, huge place with artificial lake, more museums and beautiful buildings. We rested a bit there but is not so enjoyable when there is snow everywhere!


City park

We go on our way towards the other train station, in order to buy a ticket for Prague.
I was very annoyed because I had a fight with the window-seller, and as I result I couldn’t get any discounted ticket, so I had to pay more than 60 euros from Budapest to Prague (more than my plane return ticket, by the way).

This day we walked a lot around Pest, one of the beautiful places there is the Synagogue, it has also a small churchyard and a monument to the holocaust in shape of a metallic tree where each leaf has a victim name.


In honour of holocaust victims


The opera in the night, just great!

9th March

That day was raining-snowing, everything was so grey… it was hard to stay in the street so hopefully we discover a huge commercial centre just round the corner! It was a bit hidden because the entrance was in the underground not easily reachable.

After wandering around the galleries, of course some shopping, we tried to visit the island that is in the middle of the Danube, called Marguerite Island. Actually it was a set of three islands that were joined and became a big amusement park and offers a lot of entertainment. Well, as usual, it was just white but in summer must be very nice.


Danube side

That visit to Marguerite Island was on the bus, and the afternoon visit was on the tram, the weather didn’t allow us to walk.


View from the tram

In the evening we went to the cinema, and we enjoy Munich, by Steven Spielberg, which I liked a lot.


What is your perfect mayor

Via miguev.net I found this test.
“What is your perfect Mayor?”
I will paste my results, although I did not do it carefully; well, my conclusion is that I like everything, as all the fiels are sharing a high percentage.

You scored as Linguistics. You should be a Linguistics major!

Sociology

83%

Linguistics

83%

Psychology

75%

English

75%

Engineering

75%

Philosophy

75%

Mathematics

67%

Chemistry

67%

Dance

58%

Theater

58%

Anthropology

58%

Art

58%

Biology

58%

Journalism

42%

What is your Perfect Major?
created with QuizFarm.com


Bárbara Alcalde

Hola a todos!

Entre todas las cosas raras y diversas que se me ocurren, una ha sido comprar un dominio en Internet. No estoy muy puesta, por no decir que no sé ni como empezar, pero sí, me gustaría tener una página diseñada por mí misma de arriba a abajo.

Hace un tiempo estuve diseñando una intranet para la empresa en la que trabajaba, y aprendí alguna cosilla (todo muy muy básico). Ahora ya no me acuerdo de nada, y es una pena, así que sería una manera de refrescar / ampliar conocimientos.

Me he llevado una sorpresa al ver que www.barbaraalcalde.com ya estaba cogido, y resulta que Bárbara Alcalde es una artista pop mejicana!. (Además de también ser yo misma, por si alguien no lo sabía).

Así que seguiré dandole vueltas al asunto…
cualquier excusa es buena para retrasar el ponerme a estudiar. ;)


Travelling Around Imperial Capitals I

I will start my nine day travel around the East of Europe, visiting Bratislava, Budapest and Prague. I know is more than one month later, but is better than ever. Sorry Jana, I know you were expecting this much before…

6th March

I left the sixth of March to Bratislava. From the plane window, everything was so white! And in fact when I arrived it was much colder and full of snow.

Jana was waiting me at the airport and her dad drove us home. First night we went around the center of Bratislava. It was hardly eight o’clock but the centre of Bratislava was totally empty of people! After living in Como for months where streets are also empty by the evening, I am not surprised, but I always remind Spain where is totally different.
We also went to a pub with some friend and not very late back home because next day we were travelling to Budapest at very early morning.

7th March

The train from Bratislava to Budapest was cheap and fast. So by ten in the morning we arrived to Budapest. As I posted from there, is huge and majestic. Hopefully the hostel was just one minute walking from the train station. We got our room and without loosing time we went out to discover the city. Even though for me was quite cold, that day the weather was really good, it was sunny (we didn’t see much more sun the rest of the days). Of course, the streets and roofs were full of snow but it was melting.

We went walking towards Buda. As you probably know Budapest is the union of Buda and Pest both sides of the Danube river. These are some photos or our walk.



After walking for hours we went totally frozen to the hostel to rest a bit and there we meet our Japanese neighbours, and we meet one of them Naomi that nigh for going out.
She was really nice and friendly, she was astonish when I told her than even being Spanish I couldn’t dance flamenco. She is a big fan and showed us her photo with the flamenco dress.


Pascua

Hola a todos

Por aquí todo va bien, aunque no haya contado nada en toda una semana… sólo un par de percances he tenido, primero, tengo la bici medio rota desde ayer, y como me he acostumbrado a no dar un paso sin mi bici, estoy un poco perdida. Pero sobreviviré. Y segunda y más preocupante, no tengo internet en casa, la señal wireless que comparto con mi vecino dejó de existir ayer, ahora estoy en casa del vecino a 10 cm del router. Estoy totalmente perdida, a esto no se si voy a poder sobrevivir. ¡ No puedo imaginar una vida sin internet !!

Vaya, ayer fue un día bastante desafortunado. Encima llovía. Hoy al menos ha hecho un sol espléndido y he disfrutado de Como, del Lago y del aperitivo Milanés.

Por lo demás, aquí es Pascua, fiesta casi (o sin el casi) tan importante en Italia como el día de Navidad. A pesar de tener una semana de vacaciones, me quedo en Como, para descansar y hacer cosas, o no hacer nada.

Me he dado cuenta que la Semana Santa se vive de distinta forma aquí en Italia. Para empezar desde hace días en todos sitios la gente se dice Buona Pascua! así como se decía Buon Natale! para Navidades. El domingo de pascua es un día para estar en familia, reunión con comida, dulces típicos, etc. Más de uno se ha extrañado al ver que no había vuelto a casa por Pascua. Pero bueno, yo estoy acostumbrada a otro tipo de Semana Santa, procesiones, tambores, y sobre todo viajes, los últimos años me he ido todos a algún sitio: Salamanca, Valencia, Andorra, etc.

Mañana Lunes es también fiesta grande, la llaman la Pasquetta, creo que es típico ir de pic-nic… pero las previsiones para el Lago di Como son de lluvia de nuevo.

Ah! Lo último reseñable de estos días, por fin me he dado cuenta de que tengo que aprender italiano, que lo de que no lo uso nuca por esto del Inglés no vale ya de excusa. Después de siete meses en Italia me da mucha vergüenza mi nivel de italiano, a ver si puedo poner cartas sobre el asunto, aunque llegue un poco tarde con esto…

Pues lo dicho, buona pascua!


Notte nella Scala e più

Hola!

Estoy teniendo un fin de semana de alto standing.
En Milano estos días es la semana del diseño “Milano Design Week” y sabiendo la importancia que tiene en Milano la moda y todo lo relativo al diseño, es todo un acontecimiento.
Por un lado está la feria de muestras, donde se celebra el “Salone del mobile”, pero también por todo Milano hay decenas de eventos cada día e incluso hay una “Guida Fuori Salone”. Prácticamente uno se puede pegar una semana visitando showrooms y yendo a cocktail parties.
La facultad de diseño del polimi nos había enviado una invitación a un Cocktail Party, así que decidimos pasar la tarde del viernes en Milano.
Fue toda una sorpresa cuando nos encontramos que el lugar era una especie de mansión totalmente restaurada e increíblemente decorada, todo de diseño de lo más chic.
El cóctel fue en los jardines: comida, bebida, azafatas-modelos, y mucha gente guapa.

Como no tengo fotos del viernes, paso al sábado. Ópera en el Teatro alla Scala, Tosca de Puccini. Aquí tenéis las mejores fotos, (por cierto, que no está permitido hacer fotos dentro ;) ).


Con mis compañeras de apartamento: Fang Fang y Haili


Barb, Liu Yami, Fu Kun, Deng Xiao Ling y Ewa


Carta d’identità

Tengo ya mi carnet de identidad italiano, no me hacía falta, lo he hecho un poco por vicio (al final me ha gustado eso de ir a las oficinas de la administración pública jeje ;) ) y por si acaso.

Primero fui en febrero pero hacía falta registrarse como residente y volver a los veinte días. Pero luego, a diferencia de España, te lo dan en el momento, al fin y al cabo es un papelito impreso, ni plastificado ni nada.

Como curiosidad, además de los típicos datos, aparecen éstos: estado civil, profesión, estatura, color de pelo y ojos !


Las fotos de la despedida de soltera

Hola a todos!

El fin de semana pasado en España, tuve la primera despedida de soltera de mi vida, de Estela, una amiga de siempre, que ha decidido ser la primera de el grupo de amigas de toda la vida que se nos casa con Josep, ay Estela que te quedan poquitos días de soltería…

La boda es en Alicante, pero aunque me pilla un poco lejos, allí pienso estar para no perderme nada. De momento la despedida de soltera estuvo genial, y os dejo unas fotos para que lo creáis.
Haciendo clik las podéis ver ampliadas.


Vista panorámica del local

Preparándonos para salir Patricia disfrazando a Estela
Estela y el motero que la llevó al restaurante Desi
Raquel & Noemí Barb & Louli

Al final acabamos todos celebrando la misma fiesta


One month, one lyrics: March

This month has gone really fast (a lot of travels and a lot of changes), but I am glad to say that although it started badly for me but I am feeling much happier now.
For march I will leave a lyrics that I just like, I also found a link to watch the video by YouTube.


I Belong To You
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Adesso no, non voglio più difendermi
Supererò dentro di me gli ostacoli
I miei momenti più difficili
Per te

There is no reason, there is no rhyme
It’s crystal clear
I hear your voice
And all the darkness disappears
Everytime I look into your eyes
You make me love you
Questo inverno finirà
And I do truly love you
Fuori e dentro me
How you make me love you
Con le sue diffcoltà
And I do truly love you

I belong to you, you belong to me
Forever

Want you
Baby I want you
And I thought that you should know
That I believe
And your the wind that’s underneath my wings
I belong to you, you belong to me

Ho camminato su pensieri ripidi
You’re my fantasy
Per solitudini e deserti aridi
You’re my gentle breeze
Al ritmo della tua passione ora io vivrò
And I’ll never let you go
L’amore attraverserò
You’re the piece that makes me whole
Le onde dei suoi attimi
I can feel you in my soul
Profondi come oceani

Vincerò per te le paure che io sento
Quanto bruciano dentro le parole che non ho più detto, sai…

Oh..
Want you
Baby I want you
And I thought that you should know
That I believe

Lampi nel silenzio siamo noi yeah
I belong to you, you belong to me

You’re the wind that’s underneath my wings
I belong to you, you belong to me
Yeah hey yeah he

Adesso io ti sento
I will belong forever to you


Anastacia & Eros Ramazzotti