Sevilla Feels Like Free Holidays

Hola chicos,

I am in Spain. I am in Sevilla. Living my dream, like most of the time.

So what happened since my last post. Well, I didn’t know anything about the work placement I will be doing in Sevilla, didn’t know with who or where I will be living. I got accepted to do this programme called Leonardo da Vinci and I assure this is the next thing you all have to do in your lifes! Let me explain why.

1. I live with 5 English people in 4 bedrooms flat, 30 min from the city centre of Sevilla. Leonardo da Vinci pays for it.
2. I flew from London straight to Spain. Leonardo da Vinci paid for it.
3. First 2 weeks here we receive Spanish classes, 3 hours in the evening, weekends off. Leonardo da Vinci pays for it as well.
4. From the next week I am going to start my work placement. Working as a guide in a city, organizing bike tours, tapas experiences, flamenco and all the cool things. Leonardo da Vinci found everything for me!
5. On top of that, we will be receiving 80 Euros per week for food and personal life. Thank you again, Leonardo da Vinci.

Are you still considering to come or not?

No, but really this is an amazing opportunity for poor peeps like me, to have some work experience in a different country and don’t spend a penny! And I am again back in my beloved Spain! Perfect!

Last weekend I spent in Cadiz, meeting some friends, spending great time and collecting some memories, talking, flirting, laughing, smoking…Beach, sand, sunshine, guitar, friends, beer… J Yeah, good times.

This week is my last Spanish lesson week and then I start working after 4 months of travelling and volunteering.

Wish me luck. And don’t forget to come and visit me! I have so many things to show you here.

Till the next one!

Ligita

Plaza de Espana

Sevilla

Sevilla is huge!

My little room

Melisa and Katy

Cadiz

our art

I love Spain!

yes, no shoes in the january! 

It All Started From Christmas in Paris...

Hello everybody,

It is 2014. Happy New Year everybody. Don’t make any resolutions because I love you already without them 

Anyway, it is not about it. It is about my life. My trip, people I meet, food I try, tears I cry. 

They say Christmas is a family celebration. Eating together, spending time together and just simply sharing and it’s true! But what do you do when you are far away from your family. It’s simple, you create another family. You enjoy the moments shared with ones you met. And it can become special, I promise. 

My Christmas was in Paris. Eating with my friend’s Jessica family, listening language I don’t know, laughing from too much vine, just being there and now. And it was great! 

Paris was good, but I am not sure I am coming back there. Too big and grey. I don’t like when you are dependent on transport and can’t walk everywhere in few hours

And then hitch-hiking all way to London. What can I say, it was fucking hard. One of the most challenging day in my trip. Short distances, rain, wind, cold, shitty hitch-hiking spots on the road, under the bridge, strong language barrier, but then very easy hitch-hiking to the ferry. Hitch-hiking from Dover was a mess, nobody were stopping, seemed like UK never seen any hitch-hikers on a road. Anyway, somehow we made it, we arrived to London around 1 o’clock in the night but our trip was not finished yet. We were in Enfield, north of London not even close to any underground station to get us to the centre. After missing last trains, struggling with buses, being lost, hungry and maybe sometimes angry we arrived to my friends flat at 4 am. Guess how well we slept that night, haha? 

That day was really trying us, checking if we are strong enough. We could always easily catch a bus from somewhere and get into it but we said no, and we carried on. Never show your back for hitch-hiking luck. Sometimes you hate it when you stand in freezing cold and nobody is stopping for you but then you meet those life saviers and you fall in love with hitch-hiking again.

I never really liked London. Too big for me as well, but this time London showed it’s nice side, it was sunny and blue sky for 2 days, how could you not like this!!! We had great time with my friends and that’s the most important.

My New Years Eve was in my beloved Brighton. Big house party with one of couchsurfers, seeing faces I haven’t seen for a while, laughing, dancing, flirting, drinking. It was not spectacular but I had great fun. And I am always very emotional in the midnight, I feel the year changing. I know it sounds stupid  That night I was looking through the big window to the lights and some fireworks and I thought a lot about some of you. Where you are at that moment, do you enjoy your life and how much I missed spending time with you.

Tomorrow I am starting another page of my interesting book. I am flying back to Spain. I have been accepted with Leonardo da Vinci programme (google it, it’s great!) to live in Sevilla for 3 months. You know you are welcome, make sure I see some of you, you have to fall in love with this beautiful region Andalucia.

Love you a lot (well, some of you even more than that!)

Ligita

Free hot chocolate from driver who stopped for us!

Hitch-hiking in french style!

Paris is not only about touristic places!

Free coca cola for a rainy day in Paris with our new friends coca cola bears!

My cool friend Princess

I told you I have cool friends!

haha!

Maybe Australian flag will bring us luck? :)

learning some local slang :)

If you won't stop, can't promise what may happen next for you...

Hitch-hiker's life is not always easy :)

Dreamy couple, thanks guys again!!!

great band, ok and sexy drummer :)))

Kraken!!!!

Brighton, I am back!

Visiting Friends and Changing Countries Like Socks

Hello my dearest friends,

Since my last post I have been doing quite many different things.

I left my last volunteering project in Catalonia with another girl called Ieva and went for a small hitch-hiking trip towards Barcelona.

Two Lithuanian girls were damn lucky that day. We didn’t even need to put our thumbs up when we got into……… And now I just realized that I already told you this story, sorry! Haha

So Barcelona, do I have to start from there? Well what can I say about this magical city. Remember my first night and stolen coat? After that Barcelona was really trying to make me happier. It is true about those friendly Catalan people there, it is true about crazy parties, ending up in the most random places. It is true about colourful city which doesn’t sleep. It takes you all, takes you in it, brings many adventures and stories. Stories when you wake up and realize your nose piercing is gone, and who damn cares about the piercing when you are surrounded by music, LIVE music, music which gives you smile, lets you get into it, lets you experience the trance together with musicians. Oh, Barcelona, I really enjoyed you. And I drank from the font in the La Rambla, did I tell you that everybody who drinks from there IS coming back some day?

Then I was a bit lazy girl, so I shared a car with Spanish people and went to Andorra to see my beautiful friends from Mexico and Argentina. And it was magical again! To see your friends in another country is something really special, you always have something to share with, you don’t need to tell the same story, like you are telling to random people. Cooking together, laughing together, sliding on the snow, doing something which after you may be arrested, feeling the cold in the air, sleeping in the gypsy style, all together (nothing sexual, don’t worry;)). Yes Andorra was great!

And then I was too crazy. I have decided to hitch-hike 650 km in one day just to see my amazing friend Domi in Grenoble. Night before it I was really freaking out, freaking out because I was so scared not to make it. I was not scared to sleep outside, stay in another city or hitch-hike through the night. I was scared to loose opportunity to see my friend because you see she had just one day with me and after she was going away for Christmas. BUT, the strong desire to be with her again made the things go well. After 8 cars, my lucky truck stopped and told me that he is going straight to Grenoble. 450 km in only one truck! Driver could not speak any English or Spanish, forget about Lithuanian! 5 hours of body language, signs, smiles and we could understand what we wanted to say. I tell you, language is not always needed!

So now I am here, in Grenoble with a bottle of beer, happy because I saw my friend Domi and not only because of that, happy because it is so true that when you want something and you open your heart you always get it. I know I know sounds cheesy or whatever but it’s true. When you think positive all great things just come to you! And just a little hint I got accepted for something cool to stay 3 months in Sevilla! :)

Now, my little plan is to hitch-hike to another French city/town St Etienne, meet my friend Jessica there and hitch-hike to Paris. Christmas in Paris, yes I am going to celebrate it there.

If I don’t write anything before may you all have beautiful Christmas, I know everybody hates Christmas nowadays, but just think about spending the time with those you love and don’t forget to eat a lot, I promise I will!

Kisses and hugs,

Ligita

Happy and dizzy Jessica :) 

great band in the random house party

Sagrada Familia, have been living 5 min from there while staying in Barcelona

Who said Barcelona is not big, huh?

Random Peruvian performance in Barca

Beautiful Guell Park

Barcelona style

Plane Triangle, looks beautiful!

Barcelona in night

Pyrenees in Andorra

With Maxi and Luis

Andorra

Chocolate heaven in Andorra

While waiting for the car to stop...

With Domi

Grenoble

Happy us!

Love is everywhere...