Weather

Yesterday I was at the beach and had a swim in the sea... in the middle of October.

I'm loving it!

Walking the streets...

Every day Barcelona offers new weird and wonderfull things to see and discover. With people from all over the world working, studying and living here Barcelona offers an unique atmosphere.



How can one call a driving school "Racing School".
















I really don't want to know what happend here...

Rugby

On Saturday I accompanied some French classmates to the bar in which I've so far watched every Springboks match to watch the semifinal between France and England. The atmosphere was great about 50 english and 80 french fans screaming and shouting (Swing low...; Allez les blues...). Even though I was supporting France in this match I wasn't too sad they lost as I had bet a couple of the guys that South Africa and not France would win the World Cup.

Not too happy Matthieu seconds before the final whistle.

On Sunday I once again went to my favourite rugby-watching-bar (accompanied by the French) to watch SA play the Pumas.

Unfortuanetly I was the the only Springboks suppoter in the whole pub so that I wasn't too popular. However now we're just one step away from becoming world champion and I'm just one win away from winning a couple of beers.

Razzmatazz

Of course I also go out at night. This friday I went to Razzmatazz it is one of the biggest clubs in Barcelona. Because Miss Kiten from France was DJing it was very full though...

Conny from Germany and Jake from California:

Razzmatazz at its fullest- I'm so glad I'm taller than the Spanish

My belated Birthday

Because I just had to much to do for University on my Birthday I had a couple of friends over on Thursday (Friday was a public holiday). After Sangria and Beer we still went out.

My one flatmate:

Some of the french exchange students:

Paul from the Netherlands, two girls from Bamberg and Ruth from Vienna.

My neighbourhood

The street I ife in:

Buildings in the neighbourhood:

Mi Piso

Well now that you know approximately where I live I think it's about time I showed you how I life.

My room:

The lounge:

Summer?

Today was the first day since I've been here that it rained. So that finally gave me the opportunity to go to Ikea and eat Hotdogs :)

Die Blaugrana

Grundsätzlich sind die Fans des FCB aber eher ruhig. Wenn man in Barcelona ins Stadion geht will man unterhalten werden also lehnt man sich zurück und lässt das Spektakel beginnen. Nur bei der Barca Hymne, bei Ein- und Auswechslungen und bei Toren geraten die Fans völlig aus dem Häuschen (MESSI MESSI).

MESSI, MESSI

Die Feierlichkeiten waren natürlich ganz nett aber ich bin ins Camp Nou gegangen um den FC Barcelona spielen und siegen zu sehen. Diesen gefallen taten mir die Akteure um Henry und Deco dann auch. Der herausragende Spieler war aber Lionel Messi, der kleine hats echt drauf!

Hier das 2:0.

més que un club

So zur Abwechslung mal auf deutsch nur um euch zu beweisen, dass ich es nicht verlernt habe...
Am Samstag habe ich zum ersten Mal das legendäre Camp Nou besucht. Ich wollte mir das Spiel FC Barcelona - Sevilla FC auf keinen Fall entgehen lassen. Glücklicherweise war dann auch noch 50 jähriges Camp Nou Jubiläum und Stadtfest (zur Verabschiedung des Sommers) also war hier in Barcelona die Höhle los.
Das Camp Nou ist der absolute Wahnsinn! Fast 100.000 Plätze! Jetzt ist es auch noch beschlossene Sache, dass das Stadion renoviert wird vom gleichen Architekten der das neue Wembley konstruiert hat... und nochmals 10.000 Plätze.
Hier das 50 jähriges Jubiläum.

Mi Casa

My new home in Barcelona is close to the centre of town. It takes me 15 min. to walk to University (EAE). I usually take the Bus to the beach (25min) and Placa Catalunya (5min). With the Metro it takes me 10min to Camp Nou.

What a city...

Now it has been three weeks since I arrived in Barcelona and all I can say is that it really is an amazing city.
The first three weeks I went to a language school to improve my spanish and I definitely think it helped a lot. It was also a great opportunity to meet a lot of people some of which will also be staying here for a longer period of time.
During my first week here the language school arranged accommodation for me. I stayed in a room in an appartement which I shared with an austrian from Vienna the appartment was near Placa Espanya and I really got on well with my flatmate.
From the day I arrived (2. September) I started looking for a room in a flat. I mainly used the internet to find offers. The first couple of appartements were very disappointing, small rooms some in very poor conditions for 350-400€, this was clearly more than I wanted to pay.
The fifth room I looked at was the room I moved into, so it really didn't take me all that long to find a place to stay. I moved into my room just a week after I arrived and so far I haven't regreted it fo a second.
The last two weeks I spent a lot of time at the beach (University starts on 1. October) enjoying the lovely weather here but unfortunately the last couple of days the weather hasn't been that great.

What is Gavin doing this year?

Welcome to my Blog!
As most of you already know I'm going to be studying in Barcelona for a year.
Thus the purpose of this Blog is to keep family and friends around the world well informed about what's going on in my life here in Spain.
Because all of you know me just to well I hope you will not expect poetry or saturday-night entertainment but hopefully pure curiosity will make you take a look and my Blog every once in a while.....