Post by #cake on Jun 29, 2007 9:18:33 GMT
Been meaning to fill you in on our recent holiday....
Sunday night - queueing up @ Leeds/Brad on my own, i was joined by Roger from Stinkys, who i then had as my travelling companion! As you can imagine most of the journey was me listening to him! Flew over to Ibiza (where Sarah has been with friends for 2 nights), landed about 1am and went straight to their luxury apartment where they were all still up getting hammered, having been at Space all evening.....I joined in obviously...it would have been RN2 given DC10 was not going to be open for me the following day!
Spent the Monday chilling, recovering from the session (bed at 8am), then went for some nice food @ Kasbah, where someone tried to tell me that DC10 had in fact opened (he told me this about 9pm, so it was too late to go). Needless to say this was either a nasty windup/bad rumour - it had been closed, i checked
as soon as i got to a computer! Watched the sunset @ Mambo's...very nice it was too...the girls then left and me & Sarah went back to the apartment for a smoke and to chill on our own.... 
Up at 5.30am for a flight to Valencia, got to hotel about 9am in Valencia, it was lovely, overlooked a main pedestrianised area, with a nice little balcony for people watching and smoking on. Did a lot of reading, eating and wandering around Valencia (including the obligatory walk thru the water on the beach), it was a quaint city and we found the people amazingly friendly. If they saw us looking puzzled and lost they'd approach us and ask if we needed help!! 2 nights there later....
Got the train up to Barcelona on the Thursday, in time for Sonar 2007, nice journey up the coast and the trains in Spain are far better than over here!!
Thursday night we hit a few bars in Barca, got a bit drunk and went to a Tirk Records Party @ some hotel. It was very pretentious and some guy out of Kraftwerk was DJing. Headed home to bed about 3am....Midget was dead on her feet...
Gaudi Cathedral thingy was visited, i'm not 100% sure what it was all about but it was a very impressive building and was full of tourists, mainly Japs and Septic Tanks and they skanked us for entry into what was effectively a church/building site...we then queued for about 45 mins to get to the top of it in an elevator and when we got to the front of the queue they told us they couldn't take anymore people cos of the wind. The C word was aired at this point, which i'm not proud of.
Friday lunch we met some random welsh guy (54 yr old) who be-friended us (at a coffee shop), him trying to talk us into moving out there and basically saying he'd get us a job and find us somewhere to stay for a month and he'd pay our flights there and back and if we didn't like it after a month we could go back!
We rang him for help getting supplies later that evening and he ended up taking us out for dinner at an ace Italian restaurant, madness....he also ended up getting us the wotsit (he reckoned he spent £4k a week on it!) and gave it us for free, must have been £100 worth at least...we couldn't believe what was going on!
This is where i learnt that 500 Euro notes existed... and they're known as "Osama Bin Ladens", cos apparently everyone knows they're out there, but no fcuker ever see em! ;D
Met up with some mates later on @ Sonar, shared the love with them ;-) and got totally off it till about 8am - probably the best we'd ever had! Justice, Timo Maas, Simian Mobile Disco & Richie Hawtin were the highlights, it was sooooooooooooo big tho, in fact maybe a little too big for me personally....
Saturday day was a bit cloudy so didn't manage to make it to the beach as planned, mooched around, ate lots of local food and drank a little. Went out with the lads on Saturday night as Sarah was knackered and didn't fancy it. Went to a Mathew Jonsons label night (think it was a Secret Sundaze party too) @ City Hall. It was alright, but wasn't overly up for it...got drunk and ended up on Las Ramblas at 3am buying something to smoke and headed back to the digs....the other lads tried to go to the OM Records night that had Mike Monday and Jesse Rose playing @ La Terraza...they got there at 3am and got told they couldn't get in!
Ended up going to Tarragona to watch Gimnastic V Barcelona on the Sunday night, which was a real highlight of the holiday. Got a train for an hour out of Barca and ended up in this little town similar to Otley i'd imagine! Managed to get into the game for 20 euros and it was the final game of the season that Barca needed to win to win the league...Real Madrid ended up winning too, so although Barca won 5-1 they didn't win La Liga
Had quite a few beers and smokes and then got the last train back to Barca about 11pm....ended up calling it a night after stopping for some tapas back in town...
Monday was pretty chilled, mooched around, got food, then flew home at teat time...
All in all a great holiday and i'd heavily recommend doing multiple destinations, even tho it was all crammed into a week it wasn't that much hassle/expensive....
Next will be my report of Glastonbury....bet you can't fcukin wait!
Sunday night - queueing up @ Leeds/Brad on my own, i was joined by Roger from Stinkys, who i then had as my travelling companion! As you can imagine most of the journey was me listening to him! Flew over to Ibiza (where Sarah has been with friends for 2 nights), landed about 1am and went straight to their luxury apartment where they were all still up getting hammered, having been at Space all evening.....I joined in obviously...it would have been RN2 given DC10 was not going to be open for me the following day!
Spent the Monday chilling, recovering from the session (bed at 8am), then went for some nice food @ Kasbah, where someone tried to tell me that DC10 had in fact opened (he told me this about 9pm, so it was too late to go). Needless to say this was either a nasty windup/bad rumour - it had been closed, i checked
as soon as i got to a computer! Watched the sunset @ Mambo's...very nice it was too...the girls then left and me & Sarah went back to the apartment for a smoke and to chill on our own.... 
Up at 5.30am for a flight to Valencia, got to hotel about 9am in Valencia, it was lovely, overlooked a main pedestrianised area, with a nice little balcony for people watching and smoking on. Did a lot of reading, eating and wandering around Valencia (including the obligatory walk thru the water on the beach), it was a quaint city and we found the people amazingly friendly. If they saw us looking puzzled and lost they'd approach us and ask if we needed help!! 2 nights there later....
Got the train up to Barcelona on the Thursday, in time for Sonar 2007, nice journey up the coast and the trains in Spain are far better than over here!!
Thursday night we hit a few bars in Barca, got a bit drunk and went to a Tirk Records Party @ some hotel. It was very pretentious and some guy out of Kraftwerk was DJing. Headed home to bed about 3am....Midget was dead on her feet...
Gaudi Cathedral thingy was visited, i'm not 100% sure what it was all about but it was a very impressive building and was full of tourists, mainly Japs and Septic Tanks and they skanked us for entry into what was effectively a church/building site...we then queued for about 45 mins to get to the top of it in an elevator and when we got to the front of the queue they told us they couldn't take anymore people cos of the wind. The C word was aired at this point, which i'm not proud of.
Friday lunch we met some random welsh guy (54 yr old) who be-friended us (at a coffee shop), him trying to talk us into moving out there and basically saying he'd get us a job and find us somewhere to stay for a month and he'd pay our flights there and back and if we didn't like it after a month we could go back!
We rang him for help getting supplies later that evening and he ended up taking us out for dinner at an ace Italian restaurant, madness....he also ended up getting us the wotsit (he reckoned he spent £4k a week on it!) and gave it us for free, must have been £100 worth at least...we couldn't believe what was going on!
This is where i learnt that 500 Euro notes existed... and they're known as "Osama Bin Ladens", cos apparently everyone knows they're out there, but no fcuker ever see em! ;D
Met up with some mates later on @ Sonar, shared the love with them ;-) and got totally off it till about 8am - probably the best we'd ever had! Justice, Timo Maas, Simian Mobile Disco & Richie Hawtin were the highlights, it was sooooooooooooo big tho, in fact maybe a little too big for me personally....
Saturday day was a bit cloudy so didn't manage to make it to the beach as planned, mooched around, ate lots of local food and drank a little. Went out with the lads on Saturday night as Sarah was knackered and didn't fancy it. Went to a Mathew Jonsons label night (think it was a Secret Sundaze party too) @ City Hall. It was alright, but wasn't overly up for it...got drunk and ended up on Las Ramblas at 3am buying something to smoke and headed back to the digs....the other lads tried to go to the OM Records night that had Mike Monday and Jesse Rose playing @ La Terraza...they got there at 3am and got told they couldn't get in!
Ended up going to Tarragona to watch Gimnastic V Barcelona on the Sunday night, which was a real highlight of the holiday. Got a train for an hour out of Barca and ended up in this little town similar to Otley i'd imagine! Managed to get into the game for 20 euros and it was the final game of the season that Barca needed to win to win the league...Real Madrid ended up winning too, so although Barca won 5-1 they didn't win La Liga
Had quite a few beers and smokes and then got the last train back to Barca about 11pm....ended up calling it a night after stopping for some tapas back in town...Monday was pretty chilled, mooched around, got food, then flew home at teat time...
All in all a great holiday and i'd heavily recommend doing multiple destinations, even tho it was all crammed into a week it wasn't that much hassle/expensive....
Next will be my report of Glastonbury....bet you can't fcukin wait!
