Posted Friday, November 2nd, 2007 at 4:11 am under barcelona, music.

Bésame mucho

I love Barcelona. I love living in Barcelona. There are many reasons. One of them is that stuff like the following happens on a regular basis.

At 8pm tonight I could hear music outside that was louder than the music on my stereo. So I turned off my music and went out on my balcony (did I mention the wonderful Barcelona climate yet?). Down in the street an impromptu concert had struck up. I’ve seen many of them, and I love them. They’re loud and raw and energetic, and the sound and feeling in the narrow streets is just fantastic.

I went back to work, leaving the balcony door open. Neighbors were out listening and looking. After ten minutes I decided to go down and film a little for you, gentle reader (etc). So here you go, Bésame mucho, as played by a French 20-piece brass band in the street about 50 meters from my front door. I can’t understand why you wouldn’t want to live here, why you would want to live in a place where this sort of thing doesn’t happen. I’ve been here nearly 12 years, and I don’t think I take this stuff for granted at all. I love it.

Apologies for the shaking video, there were probably a couple of hundred people there and I had one arm up in the air to do the filming.


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  • http://www.tekNico.net/ teknico

    Wow. Who cares for the shaking, thanks a lot for this, it’s great. :-)

  • http://www.tekNico.net/ teknico

    Wow. Who cares for the shaking, thanks a lot for this, it’s great. :-)

  • Maria

    Hi, very nice music and “ambiente”. But there are also other nice places to live. For example in La Garriga, I only need to walk 500 meters towards south and I reach a little river that later on flows into the Besós and if you stand there still for 5 minutes you can see white and grey herons, mallards and wagtails looking for food, a rabbit family playing in the sun, a confused partridge looking for a place to hide from me, cormorants (depending on the season) and even bisons diving in and out catching fish! Isn’t that also a perfect place to live?

  • Maria

    Hi, very nice music and “ambiente”. But there are also other nice places to live. For example in La Garriga, I only need to walk 500 meters towards south and I reach a little river that later on flows into the Besós and if you stand there still for 5 minutes you can see white and grey herons, mallards and wagtails looking for food, a rabbit family playing in the sun, a confused partridge looking for a place to hide from me, cormorants (depending on the season) and even bisons diving in and out catching fish! Isn’t that also a perfect place to live?

  • Maria

    Ups, I meant minks and not bisons! (In Spanish they are called Vison and I always mix them up).

  • Maria

    Ups, I meant minks and not bisons! (In Spanish they are called Vison and I always mix them up).