Night coming back home...

As I was walking by the street coming back home I saw it very clear, I had to stop and snap a photo... it was just five or ten minutes ago...( well maybe a little more)
Have a grat weekend everyone!! :)

Mientras volvía a casa caminando no pude pasar de largo y tuve que parar a sacar una foto... hace 5 ó 10 minutos... (bueno o un poco más)
¡¡Pasadlo bien!! :)

Listening to Bob Sinclair Love generation

breathe

Sometimes the best thing of a big city is the possibility of going away... in just one hour by car you can find yourself alone in the forest surrounded by nature...

A veces lo mejor de una gran ciudad es la posibilidad de poder huir de ella... a sólo una hora en coche puedes encontrarte sóloen el bosque rodeado de naturaleza...

Listening to Portishead Roads

2 words

¡¡Gran Vía!!

Listening to Cat Stevens Love is in the air

Metro II

Don't have much to say... Funny expression of the woman on the add... Empty bench... Like the photo? I do ;)

Listening to...nothing! ups

A bronze guy working hard

Oh... Monday, back to work... but I guess some people don't have even a minute to take a break and relax themselves... just like this bronze sweeper guy in the middle of Jacinto Benavente square!
I like this place a lot, what do you think about the buildings there? It's Madrid downtown! I wish I could own a house like that someday...
Hey have a great start of the week! :)

Lunes... de vuelta al trabajo... pero mira, hay gente que ni siquiera puede tomarse un descansito y relajarse por un rato... como este pobre barrendero de bronce en medio de la plaza de Jacinto Benavente!
Me gusta mucho este sitio, las casas... ¡Así es el centro de Madrid! Cómo me gustaría tener algún día una de esas...
¡Buen comienzo de semana! :)

Listening to Boomtown rats Don't like mondays

Waiting...

While waiting to the first morning bus to come back home, the day just showed up.
I love the moment when the streets lights are turned off because there's enough light in the street to see.
See the buildings there? I've showed you before here the Allianz one, and the one with the Corte Inglés on the top is from I took these photos... Have a great Sunday!

Esperando al primer autobús esta mañana para volver a casa después de una noche larga y divertida el día se presenta sigiloso. Me encanta ese momento en el que ya se apagan las farolas porque hay suficiente luz de día para ir andando por la calle.
¿Veis esos 2 edificios? El primero ya os lo enseñé antes, y el del Corte Inglés, es desde donde hice las fotos desde la 9ª planta (mira arriba el enlance). Pasad un buen día!

On the top

When you're waking by downtown streets you should go with your eyes wide open to don't lose any details... You will find this sculpture on the top of the 3-star Hotel Amberes roof in Gran Vía.
Have a great weekened everybody!

Cuando paseas por el centro tienes que ir con los ojos bien abiertos para no perder ningún detalle... Esta estatua está situada en lo más alto del Hotel Amberes en la Gran Vía.
¡Pasad un gran fin de semana!

Listening to Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road

Preciados street

Preciados is one of the most "shopist" streets of Madrid. And also where you will find lots of ilegal stuff sold in the street (We call it "top manta").
This blue awning you see in the top of the buildings are to prevent high temperatures in the summer or to make more confortable your walk, and they are cool uh?
I'm sorry for not updating everyday, this week I have it pretty busy and don't stop at home but for sleep at night!
I'll try to catch you guys! And thank you for keep on coming everyday, your words are always very kind! :)

Gypsy witch

In some centric and crowded places you will find gypsy women who want to read your future for some money. They offer you a little branch of olive to give you lucky. But if you don't accept it (it's not free of course) they give you the evils eye! So believe in spells or not, the best you can do is to avoid them and look to other side! Is there anything similar in your city?

En algunos sitios céntricos y con mucho turismo turismo puedes encontrarte con mujeres gitanas que te ofrecerán una ramita de oliva y leerte la mano a cambio de algo de dinero. Sin embargo si desistes, se pondrán furiosas y te echarán mal de ojo!
Asi que tanto si crees en brujería como si no, lo mejor es evitarlas y mirar hacia otro lado. ¿Hay este tipo de gente en tu ciudad?

Listening to Devendra Banhart Sister

Kids & scouts on a trip!

A couple of days ago I found this excursion in the metro. They were like twenty boys and girls laughing and screaming in the coach... something hard to manage for me!
What were your more pleasant trip when you were kid? Do you remember?
I remember going to a Bread Industry as an incredible experience! they gave us a lot of freshly baked bread... mmmm yummy!!

Listening to Janis Joplin Ball and chain

Thank you all for your loving memories!!

somewhere over the greenbow...

...Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Listening to Israel Kamawiwo'ole Somewhere over the rainbow (Please listen to this version!) (link to YouTube)

Have a nice weekend!! ¡¡Buen finde!!

2 women

I don't know what can I say about this shot... I guess it's funny to see the young lady dressed with summer clothes and the senior one with a jacket and some dark colours.
By the way this is near my house. Have a great day!

No sé muy bien qué decir sobre esta foto... tal vez que me hace gracia ver la diferencia de ropa entre las 2 mujeres, una de verano y la otra de invierno.
Es una calle cerquita a mi casa. ¡Pasad un buen día!

Listening to Heros del Silencio El estanque

Fancy an ice-cream?

What you can see here is a part of Colón (Columbus) Square with its monument... it's already summer here (ok, it starts on 21th june but the weather is hot...) but hey! Madrid is beautiful now, and there is a lot of visitors (I guess you can distinguish them because or their clothes and accessories)...

Listening to Michael Jackson Beat it

Piika Madrid is waiting for you! ;)

A green walk

Paseo de Recoletos... Madrid is quite green in some streets... let's enjoy them! Remember the little but cozy caffe on the right? i posted in february too, see here how weather changes!

Paseo de Recoletos, Madrid es muy verde por algunas calles... disfrutemos de ellas! ¿Os suena la cafetería de la derecha? Puse una foto de ella hace ya unos meses... ¡mira cómo cambia el tiempo!

Listening to Coldplay Talk

Fake bull

From the car, coming back to Madrid, sometimes you can find cardboard bulls... ;)

Crossroad

Crossroads between Principe de Vergara and Alcalá street... I don't want to know how much may cost a building around here... It should be a great place to live in!
Do you see the metro station in the right? Have a great day :)

Cruce entre las calles Príncipe de Vergara y Alcalá... No quiero ni saber cuánto puede costar un pisito por aquí... Debe de ser una gran sitio para vivir! pasad un buen día :)

Listening to Platero y tú Si miro a las nubes

A lichen

So I'm back to Madrid, I've been on a Meeting in Cercedilla, which is a little village 50 km far away from here, a beautiful place, so green, with mountains, a lot of trees... but i don't have uploaded my photos yet! So I'm posting one of last Sunday... this is a lichen over the tree, I really like its shape. It's kind of mysterious, don't you think?
Have a fantastic weekened!!

Ya estoy de vuelta, he estado en un mini congreso en un pueblecito a 50 km de Madrid llamado Cercedilla, un sitio muy chulo, con mucha vegetación, montañas, pinos... pero aún no he cargado la fotos en el PC, así que pongo una de la semana pasada. Un liquen (bueno, más de uno) sobre un árbol (un membrillo). Me encanta la forma, los colores... es un "bicho" algo misterioso ¿verdad?
¡¡Pasad buen finde!!

Hey! I'm sorry, but I won't be able to post until friday... sorry, and have a great week!
i'm going to be out for these days....
Thank you for all your visits! See you pretty soooooon!!

Caballero a contraluz

I guess you already know how I like this kind of statue post... And here I am, playing with the sun, the light and General Martínez Campos sculpture in Retiro Park.
It's almost real uh? Have a nice week!


Supongo que ya os habreís dado cuenta de lo que me gusta hacer fotos a esculturas que me voy encontrando por ahi... Y aquí estoy, jugando al escondite con el sol, con la figura imponente del General Martínez Campos, y su monumento en el Retiro.
Parece casi real, ¿eh? ¡Feliz semana!

Listening to loquillo Cadillac solitario

back to the Book Fair

Book Fair is stilll open ( I think until next weekend) and I was there yesterday again, with some friends who write poetry and have made their own magazine called 13Trenes.
Weather was hot (it's June, don't you know that!?) and there were a LOT of people everywhere... so it's ok if you want to take a break and sit down under an umbrella... although I'd rather get lost under some huge tree ;)

Listening to Sorry Madonna

Enjoy your weekend

Enjoy your free time!
The sun is shining now...

¡Disfruta de tu tiempo!
Y aprovecha ahora que hace bueno...

Listening to Silvio Rodríguez Playa Girón

June Theme day!

Today's day theme is "view from your (my) bedroom"... I don't want to be a bully but I couldn't decide about the photo, so I'm posting only 4 pics from my room. One amazing sky from January; the second, from last Monday (such a grey day); the next, a night shot with traffic lights and the last is about 2 years ago... Hope you like them! :)

Can't believe we're in June... Time flies!

Como cada primero de mes toca tema común y esta vez son las "vistas desde tu (mi) habitación". No quiero ser abusona, pero no me decidía con las fotos, así que esta vez van 4 ni más ni menos! la primera es un cielo chulísimo que me encontré en Enero; la segunda, la más reciente este pasado lunes; la tercera, por la noche y el tráfico de la M-30; y la última una nevada de hace 2 años...Espero que os gusten!! :)

No puedo creer que ya estemos en Junio... el tiempo vuela!

Listening to Counting Crows Round here

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