mi querida España

desconozco si la morriña está directamente relacionada con la distancia, imagino que algo sí tendrá que ver, pero quería compartir con vosotros una lista. Por más que aquí se encuentre (casi) de todo y que todo lo que hay aquí es (casi) igual de bueno, siempre gusta tener de cosas de casina... Recojo aqui algunas de las peticiones que he oido:

• cola cao (no hay y no hace falta que os explique que no es lo mismo que el nesquick)
• chistorra, porque sin ella no hay chistorrada posible, ni hojaldritos de chistorra (cocina de fusion)
  
• embutido de todos los tipos, especialmente: jamón para los bocatas del viernes y para los picnics y chorizo para las lentejas
• queso manchego, que de verdad se echa de menos aqui..
  
• horchata chufi
• cajas y cajas de Rioja (si, traemos, y mucho!)
• filtros de cigarrillo
• fregonas
• ron Brugal / Cacique
  
• vaselina de Gal
• galletas Chiquilin
• galletas Maria (hay gente pà to)
  
• gulas
• licor cafe
  
• zapatillas Victoria
• pan de torrija
• hongos (de comer... estos vascos! mmm pero que ricos..!)
  
• chicles orbit
• ....
  

Y... ¿tú que echas más de menos?

to my friends

This time it was not a birthday, but a birthweek. It started and is going to end in Paris, but in the middle there was a quick and great weekend home.

I was about to miss my plane but fate helped me this time so I could spend a couple of days in one of those sunny weekends that makes you absolutely love Madrid. Coming back home is like you had never left, you think you don't miss it, but a quick hello and a couple of drinks remembers where do you belong, no matter how easy you get used to new places.

At midnight of the 7th (CET) I landed in Paris again, home sweet home after all, and the city welcomed me with snow (the first I had seen this winter!)

But it was a sunny day, in all aspects... expected and unexpected! calls, loads of posts in my facebook wall, emails and great emails with hand made PPT, short sms that made me laugh and a long etc. And at the end of the day, Editors back in Paris for a new concert...

So I would like to thank all of you: those who thought of me somehow, those who forgot (but I know will soon remember), those who probably don't know it was my birthday but will read this soon, those who don't care about birthdays but still care about me, those who just showed up at my party, those who surprised me after a long long time, those who never disappoint and those who greet me for the first time but I hope will do it many many times in the future.

The song tonight was played by the support band in the concert: Friends like these.
It says: I don't need no, friends like these, no. Right, I thought I just need... friends like you!
Dedicated to those I couldn't celebrate with.





Hope you forgive me for such a cheesy post... guess I am just getting old ;)