Just before going back to Poland....

I gathered a lot of things within these 6 months in Nijmegen. I didn't even notice, that I was collecting more and more things. Finally it turned out that it is impossible for me to pack all my stuff into two suitcases only( Plus quilt and blankets and everything what I got from people who were traveling by planes).

My father agreed to come by car to the Netherlands and pick me up. And all my stuff :) THANK GOD ! He was going anyway - so I asked him to bring my friends as well. Anna and Martin came with my dad. We met on the airport in Eindhoven, about 9:30 in the morning. They were there too early, and were forced to wait in the car since 5 am ! I felt really sorry for them, but at the same time I had terrible time on the plane... (the reason is known by few, proper people).

First day - we found our hotel La Residence, where my father was fighting with some chauvinistic dutch man, who was bothered with every single movement or talking... Ugh!

THIS IS HOW WE LOOKED AFTER GETTING TO OUR HOTEL ! I WAS DEAD ! Anna obviously too :)

I was doing my best to prepare some nice dinner and indeed it was nice - but Martin didn't like one of the sandwiches :P We were in hurry, that's why this one was worse... :PAfter a short nap we were wandering throughout Nijmegen, sightseeing the city.

In the evening my dad wanted to rest and we went for a party in Lent. We brought a lot of alcohol, which Anna and Martin bought in Poland. Anna and Varun :)Scottish flag ;]Meredith and Martin Our supplies ;)

It was quite nice time, although I was really sad to be there for the last time in my life :(

On the second day we went to Amsterdam, where we visited everything according to the puzzle tour that we did when I was there with ISN. Otherwise I wouldn't know where to go, because I totally don't know the city (besides, till the second visit I disliked this sin city).

Green Nemo - the science museum, designed by Renzo Piano. Impressive.

Red light district
Canals Boat trip
We had a boat tour throughout the canals and were walking in the city center.

We became convinced that having a car in the Netherlans is not that cheap. We had to pay about 25 euros for 4 hours of parking on the street. Craze !

Because there was a carnival (saturday - monday) all the clubs were filled with people dressed up, but we just went to O'shea's to have a beer and smoke a joint on our way there. That was boozy night ! I had literally "pub crawl".. (thanks to bartender, who offered after hours "all drinks on house").

some random guys, one from South Africa, one Dutch. THe thing connecting them was that their girlfriends are sisters from Sandomierz (they spoke a little polish, Jesus the things they were repeating were terrible...)
Chill ;] After Carnival in Maastricht we had a guest in our hotel - Robbie came dressed up in his kilt ;)

On monday we went to the University Campus, to eat something in the Refter. After that we went to Maastricht, where the greatest carnival party in the city center takes place. It was really amazing, how people can have fun there. No stress, no worries. All the shops are closed for those 3 days in a year.

Dutch street art



I decided to try HAARING - the typical dutch fish (herring). IT WAS AWFUL ! I was so thirsty afterwards, that I felt like I could drink the whole lake of water !

famous dutch toilets ;]

ORANJE !!!
Dutch order
Jaeger!!! ;D

After that we left and started our 9hours journey back to Poland.
For me it was really sad. I started to feel good in Holland. Coming back to reality is always painful. But hey - that was not the last journey in my life (although the longest).

I gotta keep my head up, eh? ;)

Last days in paradise...

Our stay in Spain is slowly nearing an end. Pity, but it's inevitable.

We spent one day on the beach in Barcelona. It was more than 20 degrees again and we were literally taking sunbath !

The beach was in modernisation :), as the old sages told us, it is widened.
I tried to swim, but the water was freezing cold and I could only wet my foot and I'm affraid I will have rheumatism in my old age... ;)

14.02. GAUDI's DAY

*****WEDNESDAY*******

We went to Barcelona again, where we met Lidia.

This day can be simply called "Gaudi's Day", because we spent whole day visiting the most popular buildings of this phenomenal architect.

First building was Casa Batllo

Another building, with incredible roof (unfortunately there was no available helicopter for us to take the phots from above), so I had to buy a postcard :)


The main point of the day was La Sagrada Familia - it's being built since many many years (since 1884). It's still not ready.
The whole construction is incredibly high, looking up made me dizzy !


This is how they work - a lot of parts of the temple are still on the very early stage of existence.
We took an elevator to go on the top of the Temple. The view was astonishing !
The way down was more complicated - we had to overcome hundreds of steps. Crazy ! :) I felt like in the Siegessaeule in Berlin )
On our way to Parc Guell ! Me in the park, striking a pose with cactus, which had loads of signatures of tourists on its leaves.
Because the Park is located on the little elevation, we could admire the whole beauty of bright and sunny Barcelona !

Mariona called this building "the penis of barcelona" but I believe it has some other, proper name :D
I love these trees

The main attraction of Parc Guell is this colorful creature (I guess it's a lizard, or some dragon), which unfortunately had an accident on the day before, some hooligans destroyed its eye. Huooooh ! :(



Gaudi's house

After Parc Guell we decided to go to some Museum, but it was all closed, because of "Antena - NO" demonstration (we wanted to shout: "Antena - SI", but were affraid of the crowds). At least we could see the museum (in some really nice palace) from far away, taking the photos of dancing fountain.
The dusk came and that was the time to go back home, to Barbera ;)