Tsirkus Barcelona

Barcelona is the kind of town where you might get surprised - by a thief cutting off your handbag, prostitutes on the main street, drug dealer in the harbour, angry pantomime chasing after your quater of Euro - but also by extremely nice people talking in body language, because English is nothing they would understand, extremely fancy tapa-bar, but also surprisingly bad paella diner, cheap wine and fashion prices compared to Norhern Europe and Estonia as well, fantastic art and architecture - Picasso, Mirό, Gaudί. Barcelona appears to be a kind of a town where I surprisingly wouldn't want to live, yet it was amazingly fun and fabulous to visit and meet some as fun and fabulous people, even though they all were Estonians. Vamos a la short tour!

This is what I do. Chase after funny consumer-society phenomena that I can laugh over. Imagine, this building here is one of the most famous Antoni Gaudi's piece of architecture. It's always surrounded by dozens of tourists taking photographs of it - and then there's this huge larger-than-life Guess poster on the neighbouring house. So what it is being renovated and the surface can be covered with ads - why does it have to be that lame? I bet the first you noticed was the boobs of the lingerie-lady not the surreal form of the exterieur of Casa Battlo.

Well this is another thing I look for when travelling. Grafiti. For me I guess the most expressive form of art - rebel and somewhat intelligent, persistent and fragile at the same time.

Estonian socks by mail

Nimelt haaras mind Kadri soovitusel kodumaise ettevõtluse toetamise tuhin. Selle tulemusena tõi kuller täna mulle otse koju viis paari Eestimaiseid Suva Etnosokke, mis ma paar päeva tagasi internetist tellisin. Olen ise jube rahul ja mul on hea meel, et vähemalt mõnedel ettevõtjatel nupp nokib ja on ühendatud nii eestimaisus kui ka kõikjal kuulutatav, kuid reaalsuses kohati kaheldav hi-tech internetiühiskond. Samas kategoorias õnnelik olin ma siis ka kui ostsin mobiiliga ühistranspordi kuukaardi - oli selline tunne, et ma ei pidanud lillegi liigutama ja sain vajaliku tehingu käppelt tehtud. Mida tülgastavamad tunduvad näotud kaubandusasutused, seda khuulim on kui mõni rõõmuhetk saabub inimeseni mugavustsoonist lahkumata. Konkurss kiida teenindajat tuleks praeguses situatsioonis asendada konkursiga kiida ettevõtjat? Ja pealegi - äkki kõik need armsad etno-asjad ühendavad kuidagi nii Eesti inimesi kui oma maa toodangu tarbimist.