Back in the city

I said my goodbyes to Ed and Mum on Sunday and flew back to BA. It was a bit of a wrench saying oodbye to Ed after such a good time the last few weeks.

The first couple of nights in BA I stayed at a hostel in the city centre, but couldn´t be bothered speaking to anyone and swapping life stories, so I just used those 2 days to adjust to being on my own again and getting a feel for the city. Then I moved to a hostel in the Palermo neighbourhood, not too far from where we stayed last time. The hostel was fantastic. The other place in the city I found too big and kind of impersonal, but this one was perfect, a nice size with good balcony area to chat to other people, barbies, good recommendations for nights out, really nice staff and other guests, so really transformed my 2nd BA experience into a great one.

Today I went and looked at an apartment in the city centre sharing with some other people. Great room and the other people seem nice too. A German guy, a girl from Colombia and I think another kiwi guy is moving in too. So hopefully I can seal a good price on that and move in tomorrow for a month.

I also enrolled at a language school yesterday, starting next week. I´m well excited about throwing myself into the language here and broadening the horizons I can operate in here.

Went to a couple of awesome places this week as well, on Wednesday we went to a tango music show, which was 4 guys sitting on chairs playing accordians, and behind them 4 guys playing violins, and others playing cello and double bass with bows, plus piano and occasional vocals. A very cool and unique show, as the place being packed out would suggest. Last night a bunch of us went to a placed called Club 69 which was a good little club. Had dancers and drag queens knocking around, prety funny. Good music too. we got back to the hostel around 5 or 6am when it was getting light and there were heaps of people still up or getting back, sittimg on the balcony chatting so it was a pretty late one.

Today I moved to another hostel closer to town, which I´d booked with the intention of using it as a base to check out various neighbourhoods and find an apartment I like. But having found one already, I may as well have stayed at the hostel in Palermo. I might go back there tonight for a few beers and tomorrow for a barbie. The German dude I met at the apartment told me about a party at a bar in Palermo tonight, which I might head to later. My liver needs a break but it´s gonna have to wait another couple of days for that...