Kati & Mattes

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Barcelona - Easter Food

Brunch at a place I dont remeber the name, its a little plaza on Cardener

Cooking something up for a change...after eating out 5 days in a row...

breakfast at another plaza (George Orwell):

btw Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),^[3] better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition tototalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.^{[4] (Wikipedia)}

Fish, btw

A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Most fish are ectothermic (or cold-blooded). Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. Fish can be found in high mountain streams (e.g., char andgudgeon) and in the deepest ocean depths (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish). According to FishBase, 31,500 species of fishes had been described by January 2010.^{[1] Wikipedia}

Barcelona - Caj Chai

Easter break in Barcelona, all our flate mates are gone, so we have the whole 170 m2 for easter pleasures (like sleeping in and stuff... not what you think). Well, not only that but also the fact that our days in BCN are counted, made us stay and start what you can call a P-character last minute catch up race to discover Bcn. Quick but solid internet research lead to a short list of places to touch feel and eat (about 50 - only).

So we better start: Caj Chai: spoken chai chai, is a.... tatatattaaaa: Chai place... in the middle of the old town, hidden place, but awfully cute..

50 different chais... so if you like chai, go to chai chai, spelled caj chai... olé

Barcelona - Handball friendly match

Stretching to avoid injuries . unfortunately it didnt make us win...

Our opponents - Barcelona veteran team . Experience wins over fitness...

the team

From upper left: Bucky (Exchange), Alex (3rd year), Matthias, Andreas, Victor (Professor), Sunil, Moises, Eni, Michael, Jonathan, Mareike, Nuno (ESADE).

With joint forces and the present IESE All star team, we still didnt have a chance against an experience local Barcelona veterans team. Our team, with help from professors, alumni and even ESADE player was beaten badly.. However, everybody could see the positive signs.. almost each of our players could score, we ran a couple of nice fast breaks and the objective critic has to admit that we were hit hard by an injury of our one and only Jonathan Salomon (goal keeper).

Either way, playing our first game of the season, we learned a lot and will come back only stronger!!

Thanks to everybody for being there, also our opponents for letting us learn..

the coach

Barcelona - Sahil's 2nd visit

Our most reliable visitor... Sahil came as usual to our annual fiesta MultiCulti!

Monday, March 15, 2010

First quarter review 2010

Hey all,

rumor is, that this blog has become dead... well lets bring it back to life! Apologies for being lazy, cause that what i was... its not that we havent done anything, there are plenty of things to talk about... so here is a brief update on the last 2 months in Barcelona and around...

Since there are only 2 months left in Business School, graduation is on May 7th, and we are planning to move back to Berlin May 10th... there are many things to do...

1) we have regular work for school - business as usual

2) All the clubs and people try to squeeze in last activities before we all leave - and so do i with my clubs and friends.. so theres a lot of organizing and doing stuff going on (e.g. Doing good doing well conference, where shawn came from Oxford, there will be IESE Spring Games in April, this wek multiculti is coming up etc....)

3) Preparation for leaving; we are preparing for the move to berlin, looking for accomodation and trying to settle things here... moving all our stuff home..

4) there is a wedding to be planned... that has progressed a lot.. but hey, its a big project... so thx already to everybody who helped us so far... for sure we are gonna approach all the others soon ;)

Well, this is it for now.. enjoy the pics and come along, if you can make it... 2 months left!!

k&m*

Barcelona - Ben in town (random)

witn Ben at Bogatell - the beach that doesn't exist anymore.. our beloved xiringuitos are gone, half of the sand is missing... the beach showers are constructions sites... the weather has hit barcelona bad!

Cargo ship in the harbor

Seagull at the Castel

Embracing peace!

big brother ben

Our new breakfast hot spot... buenas migas, 5 min walking from home and breakfast berlin style at the beach, focaccia and big cafe con leche

and when it it too crowded, just take away the food and eat at the beach 100m to the right!! olé

and ben again - looks like he is enjoying barcelona, rightfully so.

In the Poble Espanol, the weakest tourist spot we went to.

and a picture ben has taken ;)

Palacio at plaza espanya

Next to the W

in front of the W

After not having seen him for over 1 year, big brother ben came visiting Barcelona. Since it was his first time here.. we had a full 4 day program and luckily the weather played along, ending with a beautiful sunny sunday!!

thx for coming ben!

Barcelona - Ben in town (sports)

While running around town, we found the most interesting sports... Professional bow and arrow shooting in the Castel

Remote control full cross racing

For everyone who read "the kite runner" (Khaled Hosseini) - this is the new form of kite fighting!! Fuel powered light weight planes controlled on a kite string. Whoever cuts the others tails first wins...