I've wanted to share this for ages so here it is: the newest single of the amazing Bilbao-based band El Mentón de Fogarty! They're not just a wonderfully talented band but also amazingly nice guys (and apparently they remember me from a few messages I sent them on Twitter! XD), so they deserve some promotion ( Read more... )

Naturally I couldn't go to Bilbao without dropping by at the training centre in Lezama and watch my team practice! And even though J isn't really a football fan, he decided to come along - especially since the last time he was there, we'd spent too much time looking for the training centre and missed the entire training. XD


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Finally, here's the next part of my Basque Country holiday report! So sorry for the delay, but my RL has been pretty busy over the past few months and I didn't have time to sort my photos.

Previous parts can be found here, here and here.


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Because I'm on a roll today:

Here's a video of a group of Welsh children singing a Basque song, namely "Ilargia" by Ken Zazpi!

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The guy who plays the guitar is from the Basque Country and did his teaching practice in Llanfairpwll (Wales). The children of his class were very interested to learn about Basque culture and they prepared the song ( Read more... )

Today's my lucky day, I made the acquaintance of another Athletic fan online and we discovered that we both live on the outskirts of Bilbao (she in Andoain, me in Augsburg XD) but technically are from Bilbao because those from Bilbao are born wherever they want. XD ( Read more... )

In the afternoon of our second day in the Basque Country, xurda87 and her sister took my buddy J and me on a little trip to see some sights outside Bilbao.


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In September I came home visited the Basque Country with my buddy J again, and we had an absolutely amazing time. We discovered new, exciting places, visited familiar but no less exciting places, enjoyed the sun and the Basque cuisine, had a blast spending time with our favourite Basque girls, xurda87 and her sisters, and, last but not least, saw Athletic ( Read more... )

Kaixo!

Sorry for not having updated in ages but I had so much going on!

First, the most awesome princess in the world, july_v, visited me and spent a week at my place, and we explored Augsburg, rowed a boat along the city wall canal (well, I rowed the princess, of course!), watched football, did lots of cooking (beer chicken! sauerkraut lasagna! tapas ( Read more... )

blue_eyed_miss linked me to this and I got all sentimental and emotional and nostalgic because the video features tons and tons of places in and around Bilbao and I miss the Basque Country so much. :(

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july_v, watch out for the end of the video! ;)