Heaven is a halfpipe ♥

The other day when Kari and I were walking to work, a group of skateboarders passed us in the middle of the busy Madrid streets!! Our first thought was "....risky but fun..." :)
But suddenly we were surrounded by skateboarders! Boys and girls! Young and old! They were everywhere! In the middle of the street and on the pavement! Hundreds!!! Police cars followed!

We later found out from one of our co-workers that it was a protest! The skateboarders wanted more skateparks! Smart move!! :)

More shocking however is the way biciclists protest their way to better bikingconditions in Madrid! Listen to this: Hundred of protesters bike NAKED down Madrid's busy streets!! My first thought was wahhhh crazy... but my co-worker didn't see a problem in this... "Its warm in Madrid" she said."It would be much worse in chilly Oslo!!"

Hehe she's got a point there! :)


Ase

Shocking news: Our Longchamps have been stabbed!!!!

Jo soi muy enfadado!! (I am very angry!)

Today we slept in and started the day with fresh baguettes and an omelet!! We were ready for the perfect sunday with shopping at El Restro (Madrid`s biggest fleemarket) followed by a nice
day in the Retiro park!!
But we should have known better!

Soon after we got to the market things started falling out of our bags! Both of our Longchamp bags had been stabbed/cut with a knife by a romanian pickpocketer! Luckily she didnt manage to steal anything! See video for shocking details!!!! The dramatic happening led to some shopping therapy... uhmmm well of new bags... ugly S.O.S bags simpy to protect our belongings... and a nice lunch! (The best turkey hamburger I`ve ever tasted!!!)

We then headed off for the Retiro were we spent the rest of the day relaxing and reading!

We also saw the Puerta de Alcala and the beautiful Igelsia de San Manuel y San Benito!

Todays highlights!!

Just a quick update as we need to go to bed soon. We are getting up early for the market tomorrow. Today we went to Museo del Prado and saw lots of paintings of Goya and Velazgues. It was fun. The highlight was the newly opened Sorolla exhibition. We luckily ran into some people who wanted to sell some extra tickets. This made our day. The impressionists use of light was amazing! This was followed by a lunch at Plaza Major! Bogadijos with tortilla!! Mmmm!! :)


In the evening we went for a jog all the way to the bullring in las Ventas, which was closed. But a very nice building :) Always a tourist!!!! Now we however got to sleep. Good night!! :)

Felice cumpleaños!!

Happy happy happy sweet birthday Kari!! :)

On Thursday Kari turned 21!! At the office she got three cute candy flowers and we all sang happy birthday to her in Spanish. :) Mmmm yummy!! At night we ate tapas and drank wine at Vinotheca at Plaza de Santa Ana followed by a late Spanish dinner! Calamares! We just about missed the last metro at scary Sol since we had to stop for ice-cream! ;) But it was worth it! When we got to Barrior de la Conception the streets were filled with gross cockroaches, which we did our best to jump over! We finally made it back home safe and asked the reception for a six o´clock wake up call! Yaikkksss four hours of sleep! Fun work day followed :D

Words of the day

We used to speak Spanish when we lived in Spain, but that was a long, long time ago and sadly we have forgotten a lot! But we are eager to learn again and the people at work only speak spanish with us. For our own sake we will have a words of the day list!! :) hehe nerdy yeahhhh....


1. cansado: tired
2. cereal: cereal (haha we will remember this one!!)
3. maiz: mais (haha this one too!!)
4. supermarcado: supermarket
5. acabado: finished
6. busco: im looking for
7. ayer: yesterday
8.pregunta: question
9. no lo encuentro: I cannot find it
10. jo has acabado: I have finished
11.vivido: lived
12.comer: eat
13.caja: box
14. pluma: pen
15. natacion: swimming
16. escritorio: desk / mesa: table
17. niños: kis
18. algo: something
19. bottle: botella
20. train: tren :)
21. calculator: calculadora
22. rabajas: sale
23. compras: shopping
24. coche: car
25. hair: Pelo
26. nose: Nariz
27. eyes: ojos
28. cheeks: mejillas
29: chin: menton
30. mouth: boca
31. neck: cuello

Te quiero Madrid! ♥

Wahhhhhhhh we have summer jobs in Madrid!!! And we LOVE it here!!

Its soooo nice to be back. We lived here as kids with our family from 1993-1996. As we on Sunday walked through Retiro, memories of those days return. Walks in the park, twister ice-cream, tapas, the heat!!!

Even though we lived here for three years, I feel as if we are experiencing the city "from scratch" or I guess at least from a completly different perspective now that we are older! We are ofcourse UBER EXCITED!!! We are seriously worse than the stereotypical chinese turists who tours Frognerparken eight o´clock on saturday mornings!

So here is a little summery of some of the things we have done so far apart from working: jogged in the Retiro park, visited the Cripta at the Cathedral Almudena and the Palacio Real and celebrated Karis 21st birthday by eating tapas and dinner at Plaza de Santa Ana!! (We ate Spanish time....so definetly past our bed time!!) And oh I must mention that we have shopped in Grand Via! Sales started the day we arrived and the shopping is amazing!! Tomorrow we are however taking a shopping break and visiting El Prado and other museums!

Time to sleep! :) Buenas noches!!!