update
Two weeks ago I spent the weekend at Noeme's house, in Queen's Park. She's Liliana's friend, and although she was born in South Africa, she lived in Portugal for most of her life. She came to London to study, about one year ago, but eventually she ended up leaving uni and found a job. Noeme live's in a house with 4 other people, Richard, Iveta, David and António. David and António are brothers and they're also portuguese (alentejanos). Richard is the "landlord" so to speak, he's british and he's currently dating Noeme. Iveta is, I don't remember which country she's from anymore, but it's somewhere in eastern europe. Tania also spent the weekend with us, she's been living in England for 3 years now and she's the sister of one of Liliana's friends (meaning she's also portuguese).
After leaving my things at Noeme's, Tania, Noeme and me went to have lunch at a pub. Richard later joined us. We passed by another pub called Paradise that apparently now is so famous that it even has doorman's at night and you have to dress like if you were going to a club. Where have you ever seen a pub like that?? It's ridiculous, LOL. All because Kate Moss and Blur's vocalist decided to show up there one night and it came on the newspapers. So now everyone wants to go to Paradise hoping to see some celebrities...
After lunch we headed to Portobello market (minus Richard). It was a cool market, but I like Bricklane's better. I bought some new sunglasses and nothing else because I was short of money.
Noeme and me. I make that face when I'm trying not to laugh...
Noeme and Tânia.
me and my new glasses, kind of blurry though.
Is my bag that big??
No, Noeme, please don't eat me! lol
Tânia and Noeme. I wanted to catch that Portobello sign.
When Portobello market ends, Nottinghill starts. We went to this pub where they have a beer called Frülli, a belgium beer that tastes like strawberry. It was really good, I could get drunk without even noticing if I drunk 3 of those.
Yup, all the way down! haha
After that we went to Sainsburry's shopping for dinner. We made a mexican dish that I can't remember the name, but it was delicious!!
She's hiding another beer can under her left arm, what an alcoholic!! ok ok, it was Richard's can...
Me, Noeme and Richard. We're at the subway station btw, which is outdoors.
No, I wasn't drunk, haha. Although it was the 4th beer I had that day.
We went out to Bricklane, but it was SO full of people (imagine Bairro Alto but with even more people) that we decided not to go to any club. We just stayed on the street drinking beer. After a while we caught the subway again to go meet some of Richard's friends.
Weird xD
See, I told you she's an alcoholic, LOL.
btw, it was a really warm night, because it was midnight and I was still wearing only my t-shirt.
After meeting Richard's friend in a place whose name I don't remember, I think it was near King's Cross though, we went to another pub, full of glam beyonce look a likes. We were supposed to go with Richard to a club called "Fabric". Tânia wasn't very excited to go there after hearing about how Richard needed his drugs. In the end, the three of us decided we were too tired to go and went back home. It was about 2 am, I think. Richard was very sweet and walked about 10 minutes with us until we found a taxi. The next day he got home when I woke up, 9:30 am. Me in my pijama going to the bathroom and he getting home, lol.
So on sunday it was even hotter than on saturday. Everyone was so surprised because it isn't usual to get such a hot weather in England. We were so sleepy, but we went to Sainsburry's again to buy breakfast. On that morning I finally met David and António.
Yeah, people like to drink in that house!
This is the little garden on the back of the house. Tânia was trying to sleep.
It was too sunny outside for me to be able to relax, so I went to the living room to cool down. They have this panel on the wall, I found it pretty cool.
At 2pm we finally decided to stop being lazy and go enjoy the beautiful day that it was. Noeme, Tânia, António and me headed to Hampstead. David was going to meet us there.
We were hunting down for a pub with a TV to watch Manchester's match, because David and António wanted to watch it (men...), but apparently none had a TV. After seeing so many people laying down in bikinis on the grass, we finally decided to give up and rest a bit. It was so hot.
We were eating icecreams too. Can you notice the amount of people behind me sun bathing??
This is António. I had the brilliant idea to start singing Toy's song Chama o António and we ended up with the damn song in our heads for the whole day and sing all the time. Poor António, I was feeling sorry for him, haha.
LOL what was he doing??
I was taking this picture. I wasn't trying to comit suicide.
LOL don't we look cute?? xD
Tânia you were supposed to be in the photo too ^^;
Look, it's me!
What's wrong with my neck? o_O
Do I look fat? I look fat. But I don't eat that much and I walk about 1 hour every day. How did I get fat?
I really wanted to take a pic of that people on the grass. It's so weird for us to see something like that. But I guess it's kind of understandable since there's no beaches in London and it takes more that 1 hour to get to Brighton (and they say the beach sucks there, the sands is just rocks).
Since we didn't find any pub with a TV and the game was about to start, we went to meet David in Australian pub near the station.
Chips & beer, how more brittish could we get? xD
Noeme and I pretended to be Cristiano Ronaldo's fangirls (although we find him disgusting) just because he's portuguese. It was fun, we couldn't care less about the game and we actually were to busy eating and drinking to pay attention to what was going on, but we managed to imitate Cristiano's expressions whenever there was a close up. Apparently it was raining in Manchester while we were being burned by the sun in London. Manchester won the match we spent 5 minutes screaming "Cristiano! Cristiano!" like fools.
Too much sun, António!
He decided to be creative...
Aww, don't they look adorable??
After the picture being taken, António burned Tânia's nose with his cigarrette, LOL.
Time to go back home D:
I think this was probably the best weekend I had since I came to London. Everyone was so nice. The way they live looked like so bohemian, it was so cool, haha. Hopefully I'll meet them again.
This weekend, on Sunday, I went to a Taizé meeting. It was so cool, it had been 3 years since the last time I sang those songs, I felt to nostalgic. I luckily passed by the church one day and found a paper about the meetings. Taizé is something that unites all christians (catholics, protestants, orthodoxs) and it's something that I find closer to my ideals, rather than just to go to church and listen to the priest. It isn't a new religion or anything like that, far from it, it's just a community in a french village called Taizé, therefor the name. Anyways, check the link above if you are curious about it. I met some nice people there (Gerald, Caroline, Mary and some others whose name I don't remember), we all went for a cup a of coffee in Nero afterwards to talk. I found out that there's a meeting every saturday on Notre Dame's church and I'll probably go there next weekend. I felt so good after the chanting, I was feeling kind of depressed this weekend, and going there helped me a lot. There's an harmony about Taizé that I can't explain and I feel really lucky to have met such a great man like brother Roger, the founder of the community, one year before he was murdered.
On the way to the station, Caroline and Mary took me to meet this street's reggae singer. He was a funny character and he played some Bob Marley's songs for us.
After leaving my things at Noeme's, Tania, Noeme and me went to have lunch at a pub. Richard later joined us. We passed by another pub called Paradise that apparently now is so famous that it even has doorman's at night and you have to dress like if you were going to a club. Where have you ever seen a pub like that?? It's ridiculous, LOL. All because Kate Moss and Blur's vocalist decided to show up there one night and it came on the newspapers. So now everyone wants to go to Paradise hoping to see some celebrities...
After lunch we headed to Portobello market (minus Richard). It was a cool market, but I like Bricklane's better. I bought some new sunglasses and nothing else because I was short of money.
Noeme and me. I make that face when I'm trying not to laugh...
Noeme and Tânia.
me and my new glasses, kind of blurry though.
Is my bag that big??
No, Noeme, please don't eat me! lol
Tânia and Noeme. I wanted to catch that Portobello sign.
When Portobello market ends, Nottinghill starts. We went to this pub where they have a beer called Frülli, a belgium beer that tastes like strawberry. It was really good, I could get drunk without even noticing if I drunk 3 of those.
Yup, all the way down! haha
After that we went to Sainsburry's shopping for dinner. We made a mexican dish that I can't remember the name, but it was delicious!!
She's hiding another beer can under her left arm, what an alcoholic!! ok ok, it was Richard's can...
Me, Noeme and Richard. We're at the subway station btw, which is outdoors.
No, I wasn't drunk, haha. Although it was the 4th beer I had that day.
We went out to Bricklane, but it was SO full of people (imagine Bairro Alto but with even more people) that we decided not to go to any club. We just stayed on the street drinking beer. After a while we caught the subway again to go meet some of Richard's friends.
Weird xD
See, I told you she's an alcoholic, LOL.
btw, it was a really warm night, because it was midnight and I was still wearing only my t-shirt.
After meeting Richard's friend in a place whose name I don't remember, I think it was near King's Cross though, we went to another pub, full of glam beyonce look a likes. We were supposed to go with Richard to a club called "Fabric". Tânia wasn't very excited to go there after hearing about how Richard needed his drugs. In the end, the three of us decided we were too tired to go and went back home. It was about 2 am, I think. Richard was very sweet and walked about 10 minutes with us until we found a taxi. The next day he got home when I woke up, 9:30 am. Me in my pijama going to the bathroom and he getting home, lol.
So on sunday it was even hotter than on saturday. Everyone was so surprised because it isn't usual to get such a hot weather in England. We were so sleepy, but we went to Sainsburry's again to buy breakfast. On that morning I finally met David and António.
Yeah, people like to drink in that house!
This is the little garden on the back of the house. Tânia was trying to sleep.
It was too sunny outside for me to be able to relax, so I went to the living room to cool down. They have this panel on the wall, I found it pretty cool.
At 2pm we finally decided to stop being lazy and go enjoy the beautiful day that it was. Noeme, Tânia, António and me headed to Hampstead. David was going to meet us there.
We were hunting down for a pub with a TV to watch Manchester's match, because David and António wanted to watch it (men...), but apparently none had a TV. After seeing so many people laying down in bikinis on the grass, we finally decided to give up and rest a bit. It was so hot.
We were eating icecreams too. Can you notice the amount of people behind me sun bathing??
This is António. I had the brilliant idea to start singing Toy's song Chama o António and we ended up with the damn song in our heads for the whole day and sing all the time. Poor António, I was feeling sorry for him, haha.
LOL what was he doing??
I was taking this picture. I wasn't trying to comit suicide.
LOL don't we look cute?? xD
Tânia you were supposed to be in the photo too ^^;
Look, it's me!
What's wrong with my neck? o_O
Do I look fat? I look fat. But I don't eat that much and I walk about 1 hour every day. How did I get fat?
I really wanted to take a pic of that people on the grass. It's so weird for us to see something like that. But I guess it's kind of understandable since there's no beaches in London and it takes more that 1 hour to get to Brighton (and they say the beach sucks there, the sands is just rocks).
Since we didn't find any pub with a TV and the game was about to start, we went to meet David in Australian pub near the station.
Chips & beer, how more brittish could we get? xD
Noeme and I pretended to be Cristiano Ronaldo's fangirls (although we find him disgusting) just because he's portuguese. It was fun, we couldn't care less about the game and we actually were to busy eating and drinking to pay attention to what was going on, but we managed to imitate Cristiano's expressions whenever there was a close up. Apparently it was raining in Manchester while we were being burned by the sun in London. Manchester won the match we spent 5 minutes screaming "Cristiano! Cristiano!" like fools.
Too much sun, António!
He decided to be creative...
Aww, don't they look adorable??
After the picture being taken, António burned Tânia's nose with his cigarrette, LOL.
Time to go back home D:
I think this was probably the best weekend I had since I came to London. Everyone was so nice. The way they live looked like so bohemian, it was so cool, haha. Hopefully I'll meet them again.
This weekend, on Sunday, I went to a Taizé meeting. It was so cool, it had been 3 years since the last time I sang those songs, I felt to nostalgic. I luckily passed by the church one day and found a paper about the meetings. Taizé is something that unites all christians (catholics, protestants, orthodoxs) and it's something that I find closer to my ideals, rather than just to go to church and listen to the priest. It isn't a new religion or anything like that, far from it, it's just a community in a french village called Taizé, therefor the name. Anyways, check the link above if you are curious about it. I met some nice people there (Gerald, Caroline, Mary and some others whose name I don't remember), we all went for a cup a of coffee in Nero afterwards to talk. I found out that there's a meeting every saturday on Notre Dame's church and I'll probably go there next weekend. I felt so good after the chanting, I was feeling kind of depressed this weekend, and going there helped me a lot. There's an harmony about Taizé that I can't explain and I feel really lucky to have met such a great man like brother Roger, the founder of the community, one year before he was murdered.
On the way to the station, Caroline and Mary took me to meet this street's reggae singer. He was a funny character and he played some Bob Marley's songs for us.