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Stories in English from my time spent in Lisbon untill now in Barcelona :)
2007.10.27
I will write in general what happened after I left Lisbon in Portugal :)
I stayed in Lisbon some more time then went to Porto for 9 days and after that I went to Coimbra, so beautiful and very green place. In Coimbra I lived in a kind of Anarchist squat called Republica Baco, having an interesting time. One day I met the people that had been to Ecotopia as well who asked me to join them and go to Madrid. They offered me a lift. I had 3 hours to decide.... It was one of the most difficult decisions to make.... first of all I really liked Portugal and wanted to see lots of other places and the Nature Park in the North or rock paintings from 25.000 years ago. Secondly, I had made really close friendships with many people all over Portugal. On the other hand I wanted to move to Spain also, but didn't have such good memories from my last time in Madrid (traffic and people in a hurry all the time) 5 years ago.... but I decided to go.... I didn´t feel well in the Madrid traffic again but one advantage was that Laura and her Family lived close to huge Park and I really liked Laura's personality so I went on another adventure. She hosted me and her other friends. Then after over a week I met a painter who told me she was going to Valencia so I had one night to decide and I ended up getting a lift there. I stayed at Ruth´s painting workshop one night then moved to a CS host and at the end another HC host. In total I stayed 9 days in Valencia. I decided to cycle in the direction of Barcelona but first I took a train to the coast. It was a beautiful peaceful time cycling along the coast and sleeping on the rocks having the sea and waves around :) I got up early to watch the incredible sun rise and continued cycling, but after 30 km there was no other option apart from going along the crazy national road so I went to the nearest town and got the regional train for free. I arrived at Tortosa... quite nice old town. then went again for free on another train to Barcelona avoiding the ticket inspector once thinking that I would manage a free ride.... but just before Barcelona there was another inspection and a little problem started because I didn't want to pay extra money to get a ticket on the train. The inspector called the police so when I got off the train the security guy started to run towards me and demanded that I give him money... I understood what he said in Spanish, that he wanted to rob me to have fun in the bars and with prostitutes so I demanded a receipt for the ticket from the inspector and in the end I got it.
Now I am in Barcelona and I left to Susannah's home, the fantastic and very lovely open hearted vegan host from HC, after staying 2 weeks with the incrediblely great and also lovely open hearted anarchofeminists at the squat in the nice old small one. I will see how much longer I will stay here feeling so easy-going atmosphere staying with Susannah´s friends.
Meanwhile staying in Barcelona I wason some DIY punk concerts, demonstration against eviction of anarchist social centre that is a squat. I cooked and prepared falafels and served them at the university with my squat flatmates as a benefit for alternative Radio Bronka. I started to practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and kick-boxing at one of the squats with antifascists non mucho participants. 3 nights ago I had a dinner at Sussanah´s home with her friends English teachers from Scotland, USA and England. Yesterday I cooked vegan dinner for 10 vegans who visited Susannah and it was interesting to meet and see vegans from Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Spain. At the end one of the Couch Surfer Merilyn from Canada joined us, a fantastic girl who is going to join us today and we are going to Reggae concert and other events :)