Ana Belén Vázquez´s Photography

Weather forecast: Max 40ºC, Mín 27ºC, stormy

Today I´m going to start the beginning of a new category, art or "rt" as I would say more closely. Why? Because it´s one part more in my soul and I have this feeling to let flow.

I could say that I saw much art but never enough. Sometimes your eyes are caught by the peinture or the image you observe. Then, the virus begins to spread under your skin.

Welcome to the art.

So, today I´ve found out the pics of Ana Belén Vázquez. I think she´s not known yet but her pics have something especial, they have the magic of that ancient place, of those misterious lands of Galicia - a region in the North West of Spain.

I could say I have seen her art exposition in Santiago and -besides the current topic is architecture and I don´t like too much seeing this sort of- I have discovered another intimate pics where the soul of Santiago and Galicia is captured.

When I watch her work, I see those memories on the pebbles with the moisture smell of the air. Suddenly, I see the sea and the grey sky and composition.

Uh, I guess that a picture can say more tan a thousand of words. I leave you with one of her pic´s and her blog - all in Spanish though, but it´s all pics, cross my heart.

Have a nice summer night.

http://anabvazquez.weebly.com/index.html

 

 

P.S.: Exposition called Liñas de Compostela from 3rd to 20th July, Free,

14-16, Frei Rosendo Salvado St.

Santiago de Compostela (Galicia )(Spain)

 

Sleepsong in a steady summer night

 

 

Dreams are floating in the dreary darkness of the night...

Someone, some lips, a smile, and her eyes...

You aren´t undone.

The path keeps open, the endless seek. Look for her.

Just swim in the beauty of her eyes - the darkness- til you find that light spot you ve been always looking for.


You go to sleep on your own.

You wake with your thoughts.

 

 

 

And it scares you being alone.

"5th Ruta de la tapa en Móstoles" gastronomic fair

Weather forecast: Max 19ºC, Min 5º, cloudy.

Hi to all! Today I am going to tell us a tasty event happened last weekend from 18th to 21st April, "5th Ruta de la tapa en Móstoles".

It is a gastronomic fair which crowded bars and restaurants in Móstoles -the second city in Madrid region after the capital of Spain.

Hold on, what´s it a tapa? A "tapa" is a snack served with your beverage. Actually, It used to be a custom to provide a tapa with your drink in almost all Spain.  Today, you have to know very well the place to discover one bar or restaurant which have free tapas as before.

 

What was "La ruta de la tapa en Móstoles"?  It was an idea so as to activate local tourism in these hard times. With only 2€ you could drink a beer plus a designed tapa. Each one of the 53 locals had a specific one. 

 

How to start?

Firstly, begin with one of the bars and get the full map of bars adhered to the fair with its creations.

 

 

 

 

Then,  draw your specific route of tapas which you are interested in and have a good meal!

After that, when you asked for one tapa, the local would stamp that you tasted it in your initial map.

 

What is the purpose?

If you tasted 5 or more different tapas with your qualification, a 100€ meal would be given by draw of participants. Besites, the tapa with more points would be elected as the best tapa in Móstoles.   

 

My personal advice

In my opinion, I recommend you to choose delicacies along the rest and look for a place where you can find a sit at least.

 

In my case I ate 6 tapas between 2 days.

-One of kitchen -very usual because my friends wanted to dinner. It was a piece of kitchen breast with tomato sauce, nothing special.

-Anchovies with quail egg- only a bit for nibbling...

-Tortilla de patata with Jamón Serrano

 

 

-A salmon toast

And the turn for the delicatessen.

-Sirloin toast with a shot of Gazpacho  (a traditional Spanish liquid meal with flavors of salad) and mushrooms as garnish

 

-Sirloin toast a la crème roquefort with peppers and quail egg as garnish.

 

 

 

 

Desire of darkness

Weather forescast: 25ºC Max, 7ºC Min, windy, bright day



Night, night, a warm darkness shattered into the odd and unknown feelings.

If you could write them down, how will you do it?

Withouth a simple or complicated reason.
Without nothing clear around your mind, your throat.

So, suddenly, you appear there dreaming of her- one you have not meet yet.

You can feel her, you can even touch her but...

Unfortunately, it´s only darkness.

Desire.

You wonder how she will be in front of you when the time come.

My dream´s shadow

Weather forecast: Max 25ºC, Min 7ºC, Bright , windy



This night I have a dream, a dark one.

Lovely, I would say if I could remember her taste. Nor her eyes, nor her tender touch, nor her body, but her soul was enough to make me move inside- and so sweet...

Their heels sounded like a heaven´s bell. Her red lips, her all sight, stopped my heart.

And...

Suddenly...

Just the night. I found my arms around the pillow, hoping that such dream will turn into reality, a woman who will complete my soul.

I have a dream, a so so dark one - because it only happened in my mind.

Before to sleep

Before to sleep

I wanna be drunk to feel a little love because there´s only love when I ´am asleep, when the Moon holds the night sky between the silent whispers of these feelings deepen inside. Dreams where her touch is the warm Sun over my skin.

 

 

The strange days by Vetusta Morla

The life goes on. It continues even if you don´t want to.

Sometimes, sometimes, you have so many doubts about your life that you can´t know what is happening.

The life is enough hard to do it harder.

Anyway, there´re points that I understand at all. Why can´t the world be a better place? Why when you are giving to best yourself to change it in a nicer placer is there someone to avoid it?

Too many questions, too few answers.

It´s just a Sunday morning and the cycle begins again.

December 22nd in Spain, a recent tradition

Weather forecast: Min 8ºC, Max 14ºC, mist

The background is: December 22nd, Spain, international reporters in Madrid. Why this? Because they are expecting a recent Spanish custom. The lotto day- people say.

Everybody holds their breath at 8 a.m. when the rit did start. Some children called "San Ildefonso´s children" started their process: catching balls with numbers and crying them with the prizes. Thus, until all the prizes would be given.

Their public was a bit weird. They were freaks with odd fancy dress with number balls and the lotto tickets. A Japanese reporter said it was his first time.

The balls keep going and children´ voices. Nearly the half of Spain was awake to listen who was the affortunated of that big amount of money.

And then. Then, the luckiest people began to jump, bounce, laugh and open Cava bottles. All the same in all the country, the news were only about that. The lotto, the lot.

But wait. You said it is a kind of tradition, didn´t you?


Thanks, little reader. I did say it. 

Most of Spaniards are waiting for this day during all the year. It´s possible to buy the lotto tickets til the December 21st. However, it´s the gift of them wich makes the tradition. Friends, relatives, class and work mates gift participations of that lotto tickets.

The most curious data is that the prize of each ticket worth €20. Even though, the hope of having some more money breaks the money obstacle. Money makes money.

So, you know why I switched off the TV - to avoid watching one and another one the same news.

Have a nice weekend!





 

Red Moon

Weather forescast: Min -4ºC, Max 6ºC, no wind, brighty

Red her lips.

Passion on their hips.

The bloody Moon was their name.


I wrote these little words last Saturday to that white princess who turns into red lips sometimes. Do you know what´s the reason to that color for so short time?


In a Moon Eclipse when the Earth hid the Moon from the Sun:

1º The Moon "can´t see" the Sun.

2º The light of the Sun is reflected over the Earth atmosphere toward the Moon.

3º The Moon turns into red.


This last short time. For instance, it was one hour last Saturday until She turns to yellow and white.


I´d like to kiss your white skin and red lips, baby.

P.S. : I ve found this NASA video about one Red Moon in 2011.

Fight for Cataluña Region

Weather forecast: Min -4ºC, Max 6ºC, bright, no wind

Hi to everybody, again. As you know there was the election in Cataluña some week ago. The election was anticipated as a mesure of support the independentist project by Artur Mas, head of the ancient regional government CIU. It´s likely you wonder what were the results, isn´t it?

So, have a little time to the figure.

According to the results we can notice CIU lost the majority and requires support for having it. So, the options are:

-ERC, independentist left wing -> They support the independency but they don´t agree the right politics of CIU.

-PSC, national left wing-> It has rejected the support.

-PP, national right wing

-Other groups.


Which is the future of Cataluña? It´s too soon to know it, though there are having several meetings these weeks. Anyway, we must point out the high participation -closer to 70%- and that Cataluña doesn´t follow like a team the independency.

Otherwise, it´s too soon to say what it´s going to happen.

Have a nice day!

Source: www.elpais.com

The Road

Weather forecast: Max 6ºC, Min -4ºC, no wind, brighty

 Sinous, dark, through the night. Lost feet in their path. The wheels are no longer wheels after time and time.Speed grows up. Down road I go.

Memories, experiences, mixed by the vibration cloud.
Engine over 3000rpm.

Outside: silence, switch up, perpetuity, shift up.

And their curves are getting closer.

And their curvers are drawing.

And their curves are disappearing.

Down road I go, in the quiet night journey.

 

Cataluña independent

Weather forecast: Max 16ºC, Min 8ºC, overcast, no wind.

Hi to all again. I´ve promised myself to keep writing a little. Today, I am not going to talk about my feelings, thanks goodness. Today it´s an important day in Spain: the Cataluña elections.

As all you may know, the Cataluña region -located in the NE of Spain- is trying to achieve their independence. Even though, it isn´t well known at all.

So, I am going to be direct with all they statements in a sum way.

The background:

-Economy:

-        One of the main economy actors.

-        More than 50% trade is based on Spain.

-        The most indebted region in Spain, equivalent to 22% of their GDP

-        They want an especial tax system which one they could have the incomes of their region, not to have a percentage as each Spanish region. But the current Spanish Government rejected it.

-        They have asked a €5 million loan to the Spanish Government because they don´t have enough money to afford Education and Health services - the Spanish Government has just given it.

-Education:

-        Important cut downs since 2012

-        If only do a judge the decision, one can study in Spanish. If not so, only in Catalan, since 2011

-Health services:

-        Important budget cut downs since 2012

-        Rising prices since 2011

-Transport:

-        35% tariff rising in public transport

-        Public transport service deterioration.

-        Gas and diesel tariff rising per liter

-        One of the main Mediterranean ports

-        4 international airports.

 

What their politicians is claiming:

-        An independent country where:

•  they could decide, have their taxes.

•  the Spanish Government puts money for their Health, Security and  Education                services.

• they could maintain the current trade with Spain.

• they could have the Euro

• they could be in Europe

• Spain supports Cataluña in their EU membership.

 

The EU opinion: <<we aren´t going to support an unilateral independence of a EU member>>

The Spanish point of view: you can figure it out.

As a result, the Cataluña government has decided to do elections 2 years before so as to hide their economic disaster . Today is that day but no one knows what it will happen.

So, I´m going to claim my independence too. I want that the Spanish Government gives me money for the Health, Security and Education expenses and that I won´t have to pay any tax.

Have a nice day and an incredible Black Friday´s weekend!

P.S.: Ikea hype related pic - ´Welcome to the Independent Republic of my house´

 

 

 

 

The Black Kite

Weather forecast: cloudy, 18ºC Max, 7ºC Min, brizzly

 

 

A far while I used to think in a friendly environment. I had everything –a lovely girl, some friends, I was studying my favorite field. Anything seemed to be perfect. I was so wrong.

I woke up with a terrible headache. A pack of wolves had stolen my little piece. I lost her and I discovered the hard work market.

It’ s past tense. A tiny tale in the time or I thought that. Well, It’ s true that my points have been changed.

I realise I have got a great opportunity as working in my field in the current situation. I was flying and I’ m flying and flying over the sky as if I were a black kite -a lonely wolf.

Past is never just past.

I’ve drunk too much these two years. Too much of that favorite beverage -girls. Trying to look for her in each tender touch, imagining she was there. Unsurprisingly, nothing have worked –I’ m a bit of loner.  No friends, despite it’ s supposed my work is filling the dead empty space of my soul.

I’ ve become quite independent. If you have to bear the loneliness, why don’ t I try to turn it in an advantage? I’ ve chosen to profit this experience as if it was a lesson. I’ ve learnt there’ s always something to learn – life itself is a continuous class.

Alone, alone.

If it’ s my condition and I can’t change it, why should it drive me mad? It’ s said there’ s enough time, that we have our own path. I don’ t know what I can believe in.

In fact, I was/am a pilgrim to find out what I can believe what I am looking for and so forth. It didn’t /doesn’ t matter stay alone in this or that place. I was/am travelling on my own – like when I travelled to Milan last May. Although it was a little and stable trip with no more complications than taking a plane and moving through one city, I decided to go to France in a sort of big adventure. I didn’ t know. I was bitten by the travel bug and I had/have itchy feet.  I needed/ need so much answers that I though it’ d be the best medicine I had ever had on my hand. I got it several bus and trains and I travelled more than 1,000 kilometers, speaking in a foreign language and experiencing the culture shock.

There are some true lessons from that people. There’ s one who is waiting for me, there’ re conditions which set our behavior and personality, that one girl won’ t limit my flight.  To sum it with some words, it’ s not my time yet. I need to keep on flying. Someday I could say all what I will have learned.

 

Unfortunately, the past is sleeping and it wakes when it wants to. In that way, I met a beautiful young girl. I felt strangely fine with her, although she wasn’ t fitted to my preferences. I stopped of drinking from lips about two beautiful months. And one day, my ex lovely girl was inside – the twister stormed my walls. How could I meet a girl in a different town which had certain link with the pack of insects and my lovely girl?  It doesn’ t matter. I don’ t mind.

 

To be honest, I ‘ ve realised I didn’ t love that young girl. She was not for me as  she said. I tried to hide my feelings in her. Oh, God, I’ m sick. I do really have fear of forgetting her face, her voice and her skin.

From my point of view, I lost her and we haven’ t  talked for 3 weeks. She may be upset. She told me my feelings were a lie, she’ d been crying 7/24, she expected  that we would be keeping in touch til the last breath of our lives. She told me she loved me –but in a different way. She couldn’ t lose me. She couldn’ t, she said.

After that, everything went okay or she said so. She was happy we could have been repaired our connection. Nevertheless, I haven’t  known anything  about her for three weeks. I guess she is refusing to call me.

Maybe everything is okay and she’ s to be focused in more important priorities. I can say at all.

 

However, the last week I thought  she was sleeping on my side. I was frustrated in the morning when she wasn’ t there. She’ s got a partner, a better partner. And me, I’ m a just an ex-boyfriend. I’ ve lost her forever.

There’ re persons who are destined to be alone like an old bohemian. So, I flight dreaming in her tender smile because this incredible light was a part of me and I have got it yet. A shinning Moon which leads me towards the blue sea. Flying and flying like the black shadow of that ship named ‘ The black kite’ –Milvus migrans.

 

 

P.S. > it seems  I ‘ ve written too much because of the lack of post in the past months.

Pic> Milvus migrans in the sky of the Spanish Region of Extremadura by my phone.

Soundtrack> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6FV2qR2TY

The successful laboral´s reform in Spain

Weather forecast: Max 33ºC, Min 17ºC, no wind, bright


With this brightful time in the last Spring´s days while the Summer is more and more closed to us, we have realised the dark reality of Spanish economy.

We had a laboral reform some months ago so that we could reduce the amount the interest rate of our loan - because we reached a peak of 7% per cent of interest rate in December, 2011. In fact, it seemed that that percent were reduced and we could borrow loan with a 2%. So, it was nearly impossible to reach again that 7% which will mean we couldn´t pay the money borrowed.

Furthermore, we must consider all the lost of laboral rights in order to the Market trusts in Spain. Namely, a boss can ask whatever - they can reduce your salary, improve your function and fired to you paying less compensation. It´s their victory.

Unfortunately, as you all know, the doubt is rising and their interest rate with a 6% the last week. And, one of the biggest banks has been rescued by Europe when the Government doesn´t use the word of rescue.

I reckon it´s incredible that a bank who has received €15,000 millions from the EU with a 2% of interests and which lend the same money to the Government with a 5%, go in bankrupt and all the country must pay them their doubt. What about the poor citizen who has lost their work and consequently their house and life? What about the little company of 1-10 people who falls down?

It´s clear as water that the Government helps who had a lot of money, who earned big amounts of money.

Anyway, there aren´t conditions about this loan to the bank at this moment so we do believe there won´t be more cuts for the Spaniards. However, each Spaniard thinks the opposite because we have realised the politicians are trueborn liars so we can´t trust in someone who says something and other different words the next month. For instance, the Government had said they were not going to rise taxes and they rised after the elections.


Maybe the US Government has some bit of light in their words. That is, Spain should stop doing more reforms and wait for the results because if they continue like that, Spain will never been recovered.

Therefore, which is the best option whether the European of continous cuts or the US of stopping reforms?

Only the time will now by their dices.

Have a good week!

The tower in the sky

Weatherforescat: Max 24ºC, Min 10ºC,  Clouds and wind from the North


I have hits, battles and little love tales each day. That´s me who breaths who live in the tower of sky during the long night when everybody is hugged by dream´s arms.

Sing me the day when your tears have been flooding like they were springs,
Dedicate me your tenders through the night´s cloak,
drink by my glass like if you were here.

Follow my words as how I ´ve said to you, small drak star, at these moments where you feel lost. Reminisce when you were young, when you were so bright.



There is power,
There is hope,



While you glance at the brightful sky.



Despite my sword is broken,
Despite your poisson keep on being in my soul.



I´ll work in the sky so that you could have your smile.


As I told you,
there are hits,
there are battles,
and little love tales
to say.

A little tale of memories

Weather forecast: bright, Max 30ºC, Min 20ºC, no wind


The nostalgic path of memories

The clouds are witness

The landscapes are wastelands

with the absence of a word

the twist closer to the sky who lost along the snowy beaks

the bus I lost or I left go

The street is nude and empty. No caress, no smiles.

Glances which go down, while we used to feed us with our glazes. We ate enough the bitter bile up until the sweet flavour turned into weariness. Words which lose like the root fruit of lost love.

Farewell

The moon is dying in their dark, like a farewell. A sincere and truly farewell with unknown reasons but known consequences... All die in dark as all was born. Dark to dark. Air to air. Empty

Riots in Spain

Weather forecast: 15ºC Max, 5ºC Min, no wind and clear

Hi again. Tonight I feel like writing as you can see. In fact, I couldn´t stop of writing today without speaking a topic who has filled every newspaper broad and abroad. I have read Riots in different languages. In French, in Spanish and in English. Every kind of newspaper have spoken until New York times. It is said we are like Greece. While Spanish politicians are saying that they were just strikes, radical people are claiming their reason on social networks and youtube. But what´s happened?

In 2011, the bad management of Zapatero´s Government obliged to take some difficult decisions such as cut down the investments in the autonomous regions. It´s important to note that 80% of the investment of an autonomous region is destined to Education and Health services. Another consequence of the crisis. Also, we must remember we had changed our Education system according to the European´s Bolonia plan, which has reduced the quality of the Spanish Education in every level.
Well, we are in March, 3 months after the new Government has begun , the Rajoy´s Government - Whom I call "The hidden president" because he has never appeared but their ministers. With reference to the education, they have made a law in order to improve  the quality in high school (to separate people who doesn´t want to study from who wants to at 15 years old, to delete a indoctrinating subject of left-wind side, which had been created in the previous government, with a subject about our Constitution) and they have established that helps for studying comes to the best students. It´s true that this law has been created on February and it needs much time to see their results.
On the other hand, students strikes has begun in February because people say that the current Government wants to destroy the Education systems. It´s curious because it´s possible to see left-wing flags in this kind of strikes. As far as I´m concerned, we are in a democratic system and everybody has right to give their opinion but I don´t tolerate one thing. I don´t tolerate that radical people broke this strikes and turns them into riots, using the mass effect. I´m not talking this time about physics. They manage to convince people joins them like they were cowboys leading cows until it begins the blast. A blast which means cars in flames, broken windows, broken shops and so forth. It´s intolerable. Therefore, policemen enter into the action in a rough way like every country does when there are riots to defend the other citizens.
Like this way, there were 2 mains riots of this kind. One in Valencia city and the another one in Barcelona city. Police said that this huge riots has been produced by 200 radicals in Barcelona, creating a true chaos when Barcelona was holding an important conference about mobiles phones.
What was the consequences? Foreign newspapers saying that Spain is like Greece. What means 200 people in a population of 5 millions? Or, 2,000 students in comparison with 5 millions of inhabitants? How is it possible than 200 hundred radicals could manage a riot?
These are question that I´m torturing me. However, the nightmare hasn´t finished yet.

The left-wing side back the riots. What? Because they see a golden goose to take profit. It´s a pity but they are saying all the time that it ´s the current government the guilty of our situation when the left-wing was the responsible with their 8 years old government. By consequence,  they begin to take position on streets, saying that there will be more and more and more strikes. Is it a way to make opposition? Why haven´t they shame of move like this way when they were the guilties?  Moreover, they have taken in advantage the fact that we were like Greece. To be honest, I don´t know what they want to.

 Have a nice week!

A picture

Weather forecast: 15ºC Max, 4ºC Min, clear, no wind

Hi to all, I would like to write about a picture which I took on Saturday. I consider that these words are able to say more things than a direct speech. Have fun!

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It was sunset on Saturday in a lonely park. There were 4 almond trees with their characteristic white flowers in bloom. The air was chilly, the little flowers and nude branches moved quietly. They were annoyed- The ground wasn´t covered in white like it was last year. Maybe it was due to the lack of water or, it might even be simpler than that. Maybe their time to bloom hadn´t arrived.

Time seemed to stop, the light was dying. The birds sang songs of grief; the black bird was singing its song full of misterious words.

Suddenly, night came. The light went out. Only four weak stars and their songs remained. Only a word remained, a timeless word when the night´s realm began.

Farewell.

Wind of change

Weather forecast: 6ºC Max, 1ºC Min, sunny with some clouds.

Hi again! It seems that everything is able to change little and little. Once time I wrote in my novel a sentence which I remeber "There is hope while there is light in your eyes"- said a female character. I used to think that it was just a beautiful pack of words.

However, at this time, I begin to realise that I have to wait a bit more. For instance, these 2 weeks have benn great and surprisingly, when I didn´´ t expect anything of this sort. And now, I have news about  working in a multinational petrol´s company, about working at the Helsinki´s University and at the Cambrigde University-but in the UNEP, that is the environmental branch of United Nations.  Unfortunately, I passed the first step to work with the UNEP but not the following ones... Anyway, it seems a reality I could work in the other places and I must make a choice. A challenge. And me, I love challenges.

On the other hand, I realised that I am currently in a process of change - the new me. I supposed that I needed to cheer up myself, in spite of I love her and it is hard to forget. Anyone tolde me or -maybe I have read it- that everything depends on my point of view. It is like Damian, this famous book, where a child who was growing up, realised that he can get everything only with his will. Or this French´s quote that said that you need firstly to build inside before to build outside.

So, I consider I am building inside and I begin to show I belive it in order people believes I am stronger, confident and I have a ´can do´ attitude.

Thanks for reading invisible watcher and have a nice day. Wow, I feel like listening the Bon Jovi´s song.