Y http://life.mobiblogi.com Living and travelling without a money english Veiko Herne (2007/2008) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:06:31 http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Earthquakes-are-not-caused-by-Global-Warming.html Earthquakes-are-not-caused-by-Global-Warming Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:06:31 For a while ago CNN announced that current earthquakes in Haiti and Chile where caused by Global Warming. I was surprised how quickly CNN got rid of this idiot and hired a weatherman instead of weathergirl. Why BBC cannot get rid of their idiots? Look, people in France didn't go to watch your masterpiece called "Fish Tank" so you nominated it to Oscars!!! And it didn't win any Oscars either, because it was a piece of shit. So, let's execute now some professional projects what I once offered to BBC. CNN earthquakes chile haiti bbc http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-Japanese-cars-are-killing-Americans.html Why-Japanese-cars-are-killing-Americans Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:10:37 CNN is good to watch nowadays. There you can find out that US Congress has invited Akio Toyota to testify why his cars are killing Americans nowadays. Let's go back to history of this. First Americans destroyed two Japanese cities killing millions and then feel sad about it. So they told Japanese people, please take now our Detroit as compensation. And Japanese people tried hard to please Americans. So they read Stephen King "Christine" and decided "This is the car amercans want", so they build it for them. But those kind of Intelligent cars could build ther own personality like "Christine" did and some day could go after their masters. Especially when they start to understand history. That's wha happened to Toyota. toyota christine us cnn detroit http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Brits-should-take-the-Jews-back-from-Palestine.html Brits-should-take-the-Jews-back-from-Palestine Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:45:51 I think Brits should take their Jews back from Palestine as they didn't had right to send them there at first place. After a WW2, Brits where thinking wha to do with Jews for Germans not to attack them anymore. So, they decided to send them out to Palestine. Now there has been over 70 years and Germans haven't attacked them anymore. So, they should take them back to avoid further attacks from Palestinian side. brits palestine jews http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/British-Banks-are-Bastards.html British-Banks-are-Bastards Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:13:04 Before I left UK in September 2008, I asked Halifax that I will leave the country and would like to continue using my bank account abroad. They said, no problem but it will cost you 1 pound per transaction. Actually, it was much more because somehow I got fewer Euros than I had pounds. Then I noticed that my card will start soon to expire and asked for a new card. The told, that they can't give me a new card now but I could still use my old bank card. That was a lie. When in Barcelona, I suddenly wasn't able to get my money from the account anymore. So I went to Halifax Barcelona office, where the promised that it may take two-three days to get my money out from the account and there was even a hope that I could get a new card from that office. But Halifax UK answered "A person asking for a funds should present a valid bank card; new card can be issued only to the person living in designated address". So, they practically rob my money leaving me penniless. So I registered to Virgin Pre Paid money card which should be a service created for travelers like me. But this card had limits to spend and get cash from the ATM's. First it didn't bother me, but now when more work is coming in; I wanted to upgrade the limits away. One of the possibilities was to send them my passport copy and employers letter which we did. However, they didn't considered a decent company letter to be enough claiming that this does not indicate my current home address. Who have made such kind of ridiculous law that homeless people can use only 600 pounds per year? How about all those alternative lifestyles to live in caravan or boat; or simply be a successful travelling businessman living in five star hotels? banking uk halifax http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Romanov-Bin-Laden-ends-fighting-and-retires-in-Siberia.html Romanov-Bin-Laden-ends-fighting-and-retires-in-Siberia Mon, 16 Dec 2009 16:39:58 I met again fantastic guy yesterday in Barcelona, Spain. Guy family name was Romanov-Bin Laden and he comes from Afghanistan. He has been there most of his life fighting against Russians with US support and now against US with now support. He told me stories how Stinger got to Muchadins hands during cold war. But the guy was professional and I couldn’t imagine how young schoolboys sent by western nations to there can win a war against those professionals. Sounds me like Adolf Hitler in his last days of power tried to recruit Hitler Jugent to protect Berlin. He would have got Asylum in Spain but he has decided to go to Siberia to fish Salmon and pee to the snow when his pee will be frozen before it reaches the snow. Spain is an interesting country giving asylum to Osama Bin Laden son too, whom I met some time ago. He told me a story why September, 11th happened and how his father was surprised the glory western nations are giving to him. Maybe next post here will cover this topic more. afganistan siberia war terrorism humans bin laden romanov http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Sleeping-outside-will-give-you-good-dreams.html Sleeping-outside-will-give-you-good-dreams Sat, 17 Nov 2009 11:27:59 When I was in Paris lying in one park, some woman come near me to slept some time in that park too with me. Afterwards she opened her notebook and wrote down the dream she just had. I have been sleeping outside nearly a year and my dreams are coming better and better. Compared that I didnt find much interesting films to watch on TV, those have really saved my creative life. For example one dream I had when sleeping near Perpignan was about Lilliput kind of creatures in some odd metal spacesuits where quietly poisoning the water in the underground of Paris canals. And a small fat guy who fight against those because authorities didnt wanted to recognise that those kind of activities are going on. In the final scene, this guy legs where amputated, he was fishing on smokey waters having fishing equipment connected to his legs and one of those Lilliput (ugly creature) stand near him without a spacesuit asking "can we now have peace, please?" I could understand now how art was born and why we don't making anymore decent movies. Usually I see two-three if those kind of films each night. outside park dreams films http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/The-battle-of-Stalingrad.html The-battle-of-Stalingrad Fri, 16 Nov 2009 12:18:00 Near by the plaza of Battle of Stalingrad in Paris is a metro station called "Jaures". Each evening around 7pm the Salvation Army car comes there to give hungry people free food. And usually there are lot of people there coming to stand in the line since 4-5pm or so. There are three lines, for women and children, white persons and Arabs. When I was there in July, white people where in left and Arabs in the middle. Suddenly coming back after few weeks the situation had changed that white people where in the middle and Arabs in left. And when the car comes, Arabs always starting to push each other even there is no food yet to be delivered as white people usually are taking to line more civilized way. Once I saw how local security ask an older Armenian guy to go Arabs line thinking that all persons with darker skin must be Muslims? When I was there some Arabs still where trying to take white people line and immediately started to push there. I just went mad, took a knife and promised to kill those bastards. Because that's the language they only understand now. Push is not away to fight against Bush heritage. Those people have no culture anymore because we destroyed it in Bagdad. This is, where the current battle of Stalingrad is going on. paris muslims arabs war http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Paris.html Paris Thu, 15 Nov 2009 10:13:45 Meanwhile I was back in France. Where in Lyon you need Social Services (Antennes in each of those 8 parts of the city) give you a coupongs for a meal, Paris offers lot of possibilities for a good free food. In morning you can go to eat in catholic church, its a small place near Oberkamp, rue Folie-Mercourt 60 where they have two rounds. So they are offering usually a sandwich, warm meal and salad. French prais are much longer than in Spain and finally you can sing ave maria before you will get something to eat. From 5pm you can go to Resto de Cour at Avenue Vincent Auriol 52 where mostly russian persons are eating. It closes 6pm so dont be late. Restos de Cour at the port de la Villete was offering salads in summer without any registration, but now you need first to visit social services there to get warm meal. In Saturdays and Sundays you can get it without a registration from 12.30-2pm but then there are lot of Arabs pushing you. Near the Plaza of Battle of Stalingrad is metro station "Jaures" where each evening around 7 comes a car to deliver warm meal. But this is a really battle there between arabs and white people so I will write another article here about this. Most nicest place to eat was red cross headquoters at rue Ditot between Porte de Vanves and Porte de Orleans. Its like a restaurant where you get your number and will be served in table. There was very little people there compared to other places mentioned here. paris france food http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-Brits-have-no-shame.html Why-Brits-have-no-shame Fri, 18 Oct 2009 14:13:41 When I was in Brighton, I was told there by Screen South how much talented persons they have there but somehow I wasn't able to find anyone within two years? When visiting this year Cannes film festival I was surprised the amount of crap they are now calling movies? One of those things was called "Fish Tank". But when being now bombed with appraising reviews, I took another chance to look for it in Paris spending four Euros. The full movie is about Anneli Jarvis acting which is amplified by Andrea Arnold objective to use everything she had learned in London Film School. In a good movie you never notice the acting as actors role is to deliver the story. Even unnatural deaths in Quentin Tarantino movies can be natural as the viewer think - This can be happen. This movie was about acting. In Fish Tank you notice the acting in every scene. The audience for this film was 20 year old law students who had take their single mom to watch it with the question in mind - "Maybe my mom should have spent her life savings to send study film instead?". As previously BBC have redefined media for their audience interest to show Antique Auctions and Homes under the Hammer only, so is this an attempt for BBC is to redefine the definition of the Film? BBC film filmaking http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Social-Services-in-Nimes-are-now-in-vacation.html Social-Services-in-Nimes-are-now-in-vacation Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:04:41 After a gang of young Romanians occupied our park, made my bedroom their toilet, robbed my mobile, scissors and knife I decided to leave Barcelona. As last day I tried to raise some money for the trip being around small Church in Badalona but some Gypsies put a course for me so I quickly got back to Nimes. But to my surprise, social restaurants are now in vacation. You can still get free coffee in the morning from their day center and red cross sandwich van is available but no warm meal. And sandwich package is now much smaller, no sweets or yogurts anymore. Besides that the post office director denied my basic rights to raise money on public street near his office so I haven't being able to get much money on other places. So its time to move forward to Lyon and Paris. france nimes travel http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Spanish-Government-fights-for-Economy.html Spanish-Government-fights-for-Economy Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:15:51 To my surprise tobacco prices suddenly doubled and everywhere started renovation works with the sign "government program to establish employment". Good that Spanish government had this kind of reserve as Estonia and UK had previously taxed their tobacco products unreasonable level to use that money for corruption and bureaucracy. Seems, that worse are now over in Spain but as tobacco isn't anymore so cheap here I have decided to hitchhike France again. France social food was much better than here and maybe I will find some jobs in Nederland or Denmark. Another idea is to hitchhike to Slovenia. Slovenia and Macedonia are doing well nowadays. Barcelona is getting boring for me, probably I need to get back here anyway by winter and meanwhile I desperate to get few hundred euros for new boots and jacket. spain tobacco employement http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/European-Union-food-aid-reaches-Baptist-Search-in-Barcelona.html European-Union-food-aid-reaches-Baptist-Search-in-Barcelona Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:36:12 There where EU election week in Barcelona so only two parties where brothering to go out. Peoples Party (liberals) and Yugoteras, whose are some old guys pretending to be young guys going to present them in European Union with same idiotic speeches like, democracy, freedom, autocracy and so on. Yuguteras didn’t get us much hope because they where giving to people only chips and salted peanuts for free ad the beer cost at least 40 cents from them. As Peoples Party delivered free Champaign to everyone and left lot of unused bottles of beer to drink when they left. Sure, they will win this election which had again most lover participation percent little bit over 40. At least Baptist Church has been taken the initiative now. In Grand Via de Cortes Catalens 318, little bit of left from Plaza Espanja is a Baptist Church. It named differently as center of families or something but you will find it. They will give you European Union weekly food package which contains a liter of milk, a liter of vanilla cream, white meal, whole meal, cheese, a juice, bisques, etc. What I was missing there was cooking oil and some sausages. Spanish smoked sausages are very good to keep them longer period and also macaronis would have been nice choice instead of white meal. Anyway, all those products where printed “European Food Aid, prohibodo to sell”. barcelona EU food http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Social-services-in-Nimes-where-highest-level.html Social-services-in-Nimes-where-highest-level Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:36:25 I got stopped in Nimes (pronounced Nim) during my back trip to Spain and was surprised how nice city it was with highest level to services for the person without money. However, when sitting down for ten twenty minutes I had already raised few Euros to myself. Just behind the railway on Rue de Terraube 1 is a place where you can get breakfast, morning coffee, showers, etc from 9 AM. There where very nice people and extremely friendly service. Then there is two Social Restaurants where you can eat fantastic meal at 1 EUR only and each evening 7.30 PM red cross van is giving you warm soup, big sandwich, yogurts, sweets, etc in the main boulevard named Avenue Jean Jaures. In addition, there are long term food and financial help from several organizations but my goal was to continue my trip back to Barcelona. City Tourist Office and other places can give you the brochure of their free services. Another City was Aix en Province where you can get free food on weekdays from Service Accuel Orientation (SAO) situated at the city stadium when you walk towards route de Galice. As usual in France, you need to be there before 12 midday but they gave me one big box of salad and second with fish and rise to take with me when I was late. france food travel nimes aix de provence http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Britts-didnt-get-their-Water-Cannon-Cinema-work.html Britts-didnt-get-their-Water-Cannon-Cinema-work Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:18:20 Besides beach cinema Brits tried to show their 2012 to the water cannon screen on the sea. But they never got it work. First evening they tried it at the end of the harbor right side of the beach, second day they had moved closer to the beach at the left end of Croisette and third day they just had hired small platform close the beach. But this didn’t help so we have to wait now until October when this film will be in UK Cinemas. Will it ever go out internationally? Without a noisy sound there wasn’t much a picture. Brits are still a bunch of dreamers in old analog technology. I would have told them that this won’t work. Getting some decent images to be shown on stabile water flow could be tricky and as water have optical effects, I could it be perfectly screened on water cannons? Better idea would have been to take lasers and screen it to the clouds. cinema innovation brits http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Cannes-Survival-Guide.html Cannes-Survival-Guide Sat, 30 May 2009 17:00:06 I arrived to Cannes two days before planned and even the festival wasn’t started yet. On the road we saw Custom officers seeking prospective drug smugglers on each checkpoint and hundreds of police vans driving toward to Cannes. Even there were some other beggars in the street; somehow those Police Officers didn’t like me to beg. First day I tried it on the main street, then afterwards near Monoplex supermarket where I earned very quickly some Euros. Those Police Officers where convinced that town Meer does not like me sitting down in the street. What kind of Meer wants a person to die in hunger in his City? That’s what I asked from those Police Officers in bicycles. Anyway, there is even some social food in this town. When you go up to the hill from the main street crossings from Avenue Grasse, you will find 17th of Avenue Tassingy a day center giving you morning coffee at 9 and some food around 12.30 like half of baguette, a pack of soup and maybe some fruit or something. And this place is closed in weekends and holidays. Anyway, I find a better place to raise some money at the end of Croisette and also find some coins in the street so each day I had enough food and vine to drink. The weather was nice except one rainy day. It was fun when all those persons in tuxedos and girls in their best toilettes where sleeping in the front of the station with other local pums. I missed my business contacts because without a credit, I wasn’t able to answer the phone and getting in somewhere I should have had an accreditation. And probably most of then movies would have been crap anyway. Beach Cinema was good showing Alan Parkers “The Wall” and Leningrad Cowboys with Red Army orchestra for example. And Norwegian film music before those films was surprisingly good. Somehow I never find the Cannes in The Van guys showing the world smallest film festival shorts from their van. There wasn’t much interesting personalities also in the street so practically I was bored and left before the end of the festival. Looking at those people there I do not wonder that we don’t have any decent movies anymore. cannes festival survival http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Back-to-France.html Back-to-France Sat, 30 May 2009 12:32:24 Meanwhile I decided to travel again and look the Cannes film festival in Southern France. Somehow I had this time problems getting a good ride out of Spain to France, but in France got very quickly until decided to leave the motorway and try direct route to Arles. One guy had given me 5 Euros and I purchased some tobacco from Spanish side for the money, but being in the road and eating expensive chips has taken it all so I really had a need to sit somewhere and earn few extra Euros. Arles had a nice old town but you do not much earn there as lot of Chipsie are doing the same. Within four hours only one lady gave me one Euro. Besides morning coffee, there is not much free social food there too so only help could be arranged from Securite Catolique across the road of social services. But at least got shower coupons, clothes washed and free haircut in Arles. From Arles I got direct ride to Cannes with one lady, who once had been anarchist in Paris but now was selling books top the supermarkets. france travel hitchiking arles http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/A-man-was-killed-in-mount-Fountinjuc.html A-man-was-killed-in-mount-Fountinjuc Mon, 04 May 2009 16:16:49 Early last week I spent the some nights in mount Fontinjuc. It’s less time for me to walk to the church for food and Poble Sec library is also nice place to be to use my weekly Internet credits there. Because it’s a mountain park, there aren’t many good places to sleep. But once I found some and as one place wasn’t occupied, I choose to use my opportunity. But early night young Arabs where shouting and running in the road and in next morning lot’s of Policemen where around. My place was deep inside in the grass, so I can’t see anything because I do not want to be seen as well, but when going out, Police noticed me and asked for explanation. The dead man was homeless person as me having some clothes in his back bag and Bulgarian bible near by. I was surprised, that I never heard any cries for help. He probably died decently and quietly as we all should do. But why those young Arabs are killing us? We should be not their target for Jihad. We have suffered from idiots more than they have. Why they can’t go and kill their proper target, like corrupted bureaucrats, arrogant Brits, judges who put honest persons to the glass box and idiots from BBC. jihad killings barcelona http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-there-are-more-managers-nowadays-than-persons-to-manage.html Why-there-are-more-managers-nowadays-than-persons-to-manage Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:37:15 Some weeks ago we again drink wine with my guitarist friend here in the central park on sunny Sunday and those persons trying to earn money from “beer, coca, and aqua” are becoming annoying. There are already more of those in the park trying to earn money desperately than usual citizens. We don’t blame them because they have their families in Pakistan whose survival depends on any penny they can send from here. But western civilization seems to be doomed other way. We have now much more managers than persons to manage. Everyone in UK have title of some kind of “manager” even there is no-one to manage anymore. And it’s worse, even I have desperately tried to get any honest decent job do, those rights have been denied from me. Even doing something free as serving community service or being in prison from some idiot “probation service manager”!!! society managers http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Rains-are-rounding-circles-over-the-Barcelona.html Rains-are-rounding-circles-over-the-Barcelona Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:20:06 It has been interesting week when same rain is coming to Barcelona again and again. It started last Saturday raining here. Then it was cloudy/sunny next day and after a day, same rain comes back. Previously clouds where moving to south, then again from south to north. And now it has been nearly a week same progress with same rain. When I look to the satellite picture it tells a story. Same clouds going as south between Tarragona and Valencia soon starting to move North getting to France Riviera and then again turning back to South. What a interesting weather we have here? Probably its Aprils fools weather. Anyway, the weather reports says that those clouds will run out by Sunday so we will see some sun here again. Meanwhile, I just need to survive in those rainy days. weather barcelona http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Is-Gordon-Brown-an-Idiot-or-Terrorist.html Is-Gordon-Brown-an-Idiot-or-Terrorist Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:49:57 Yesterday I took headphones from library to listen CNN. I haven't much lately followed the politics as it makes me depressive mood to listen for me on those lies. But to my surprise, everything has become much worse! Gordon Brown declared that the reason for economic depression is in risk taking and in entrepreneurship? And goes to G20 summit with the plan to restrict it more!!! I haven’t been able to execute any decent business projects since 2002 because of corruption!!! That’s the actual reason for global economy crisis. During the collapse of Soviet Union there was a leader called Andropov who actually was the man behind the Afghan occupation. He declared that the reason for Soviet Economy bad state stays in Vodka. And he restricted soviet people to buy Vodka before 2PM and only 1.5 liters per day. Glad that this guy died quickly. Other issue he is famous was to start nuclear war when Norwegians launched a weather satellite. Luck to the civilization that he didn’t find keys to his nuclear portfolio probably being too drunk in that early morning. There weren’t any restrictions for Kremlin elite to buy Vodka on those days. Entrepreneurship and risk taking was separating Humans from Apes at first place and have been the brick stone to our civilization since its birth. And now some Gordon Brown wants to destroy it? Other issue I was surprised to hear by CNN correspondent from Kabul that only 10% supports Taliban? Probably she asked CNN employees only who had some courage to open their mouth as like BBC employees told me, we lot of here in BBC think like you but afraid to loose our jobs. politics G20 Gordon Brown CNN http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Musicians-are-leaving-Barcelona.html Musicians-are-leaving-Barcelona Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:30:52 Some days ago I met a Black guy coming to me having a musical instrument in package in his hand and asking something. My immediate reaction was that "fuck off... I do not have any money". But as happy guy as Jamaican musician can be told me that he just want my email address to the musical instrument he will deliver over the Africa to Cape Town. So I gave my signature to his instrument imagining that there are still some Manu Chao types left. My friend who had difficulty to believe that Dr. Martens are made in China is also leaving back to Germany. He made good money there and as now the weather is warmer, we could hitchhike back to north. In Germany nobody ever stole a guitar from a person living in the street and making his living from it. In Spain, Moroccans, Romanians and all other Black people just think... hey.. this guy is white so he must have some money... lets rob the guitar from it not understanding that it is his means of support himself. Kate (a black singer from Chicago) seems to stay here. Hopefully she will get her part in musical so she will have some money again to support her daughter. Meanwhile I have bring some food to them from the Church. I want to leave too. There are now sprinklers starting to work early morning in the park where I use to sleep, so If not careful I will get soaking wet. Got flue even for that. But where ton go? One idea is too try to cross the sea somehow to Africa and hitchhike to Capetown for example. But I have no idea what kind of Visa requirements some countries between could have and are there even decent roads? Another idea is still to try to hitchhike to Palestine towards Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel. But as far I know, Turkish drivers do not take hitchhikers and I'm not very sure that Israel will give me a Visa to pass their territories. barcelona travel music http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-Brits-are-always-complaining-.html Why-Brits-are-always-complaining- Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:42:12 When reading a blog posts about World GSM congress there are complaints that the food in Fira was too expensive? There was free social food available at Parallel 97 which is around ten minute walk from Fira where you can get eaten three times three course meal by showing your ID only, so why they didnt want to go there? And complaints where that the service in Spain is very slow. I haven't ever noticed that, being always served immediately and Police, Fire service, Ambulance, Park and street cleaning is in top level compared to other European countries. Especially with UK where there was total mismanagement when I was doing recycling in Brighton. Sure, if you are busy talking with someone at your table, Spanish people do not bother to interrupt you. Spanish people does not have such kind of sales culture here to sell you anything at any cost and get rid from the customer as soon as possible like it was in UK. They are just tolerant persons hoping everyone are happy. And compared to UK, when you can try to sell Big Issues which nobody wont buy, they are just happy to give you some money. brittain culture spain http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Suits-where-bullshitting-in-Barcelona-.html Suits-where-bullshitting-in-Barcelona- Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:50:05 There was Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona. Having interest and products to the mobile devices, I would have also interest to visit it but I never got an invitation. Registered to three websites who where promising free tickets on Mobile Monday thread but never got any email back. And having now seeing those people there, I would never even fit with those persons. All where in suits, ties and talking bullshit. I would have better being in Apple World where decent persons are in jeans and t-shirts. No wonder nothing works in Mobile World!!! From my previous experience, I had worked together with lot of talented persons. They are OK until they change their lifestyle to wear suits, career levels and immediately starting to bullshit. I would have asked from Nokia, Apple and Google why they choose WebKit and not Opera as their browser provider, from Bango why they do not keep their promises and probably listened great promises of mobile media and mobile Internet. Actually the market is so small that you will starve to death before making any reasonable money selling mobile ads click basis or mobile media per download basis. mobile world barcelona http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Dr-Martnens-are-made-in-China.html Dr-Martnens-are-made-in-China Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:41:25 I finally got boots to myself. Past years I have known that getting boots from military will last at least two years. At least the Estonian military ones made in Spain lasted me at least this time. There is only few ways to buy decent boots nowadays. Either you go to Police, Workers or Military shop. All others are selling you a crap, like Dr. Martins. I have met a guy here in Barcelona. He makes good songs like Bruce Bringsteen once did. He is from Detroit. And we both live in the street even he can make over 40 euros per hour just to "tocar" his guitar and sing. So we had a discussion regarding the issue that Rolls Royce is made in Taiwan: "Damn fuck... the Rolls Royce cannot made in Taiwan... I'm from Detroit, I know something about the car industry?" "As far I know, they closed down their UK business and went to manufacture in Taiwan." "Are you trying to tell me that Dr. Martens are now made in China also?" "I assume that's the truth!!!" "Damn fuck... guy... if that's the truth, I will kill myself" "Hitchhike to Northampton and you will see the truth" Northampton is small town in the North of England where the shoes where made once. Now, the full town are unemployed because Dr. Martnens went manufacture the boots in China!!! boots style brand http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/The-Sun-is-going-to-highs-in-Barcelona.html The-Sun-is-going-to-highs-in-Barcelona Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:18:25 It was just a week ago when sun went behind the MARPLE tower during siesta period where I just sit in the park just to drink my wine. It has been now raining few days and when the sun comes up, the sun goes up to MARPLE tower not going to shadow it. And the weather has changed. In october/november rains where coming from mountains in France side. Now those storms are coming from Africa to Barcelona. So the weather has changed moving towards to spring. weather spain http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/My-Birthday-bring-storms-to-Barcelona.html My-Birthday-bring-storms-to-Barcelona Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:48:00 There was another birthday for me at 23rd of January. I was assuming getting something 43 or 44, because the last one remembered was my 40sh but seems that I got 45? At least my daughter remembered it and another person, whom I gave shelter in Belfast. Sure, I got very much automated greetings but that's it. But the storm comes this day as my birthday present. half of the trees in the park, where I slept went down so I took a shelter in small bank ATM box. Those places has become usual for homeless guys to sleep, but I had more loved to be outside. I have my sleeping bag, those guys does not have such kind of luxury. Anyway, you will get a job there like a doorkeeper, letting persons in and out. And somebody will give you a euro or so by doing it. Anyway, the storm quieted even cold wind is still blowing and I have continued my usual daily routines. Barcelona Weather Birthday http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-Spanish-robbers-are-such-a-idiots.html Why-Spanish-robbers-are-such-a-idiots Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:55:55 After my phone was robbed when I slept, there has been two other cases to rob me. First one was happening when I walked in the area plaza Espanja and some guy jumps in that "do you speak English?", "Do you have a map?", "Where is my Hotel because I'm lost?", etc. As I do not have any ideas about the Hotels, I started to show him a map when another guy jumps in showing some kind of ID that he is the Police chasing drug traffickers. I show my passport and then he asks to show wallets so this so kind of tourist shows his with 5 euros inside but as I don't have wallet I do not have nothing to show. Showed my coins around two euros worth and declared that If I would afford to live in the Hotel, I would not walk around with my sleeping bag and back bag always with me? Then I also wanted to make him complaint about my robbery that I lost my money and mobile phone and started to insist that he must take my declaration. They somehow started to run away? Another event issued when I was taking a sun by lying in my back bag in park Joan Miro (same area). So some guy comes to great that "where am from?, Isn't a Spain nice country, blablabla and hold my hand too long. So, I turn around and another guy is trying to open my back bag! Why they believe that I will hold some valuable things in my back bag small pocket? Sure, if they want to steal small Estonian-Spanish dictionary, it would be big loss for me but what could they do with it? I do not have Spanish-Estonian one for them to learn Estonian. And why all those robbers still believe that a persons walking with back bag and sleeping bag are rich tourists? All those I have met here are just homeless persons over the Europe trying to survive here. The time of rich European tourists have been over for several years for them. spain tourists robbers http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Mother-Theresa-gave-us-Christmas-Presents.html Mother-Theresa-gave-us-Christmas-Presents Mon, 29 2008 11:53:05 Christmas becomes to Barcelona and I was surprised, that we all being begging for food in 22nd got us a nice Christmas presents. At least I have now new jeans and pullover, but the bag contained much more. Toothbrush, shaving cream, roll-on, Gillette, aftershave, etc which I just gave to one German friend to pass forward. Because I'm happy with getting only jeans and pullover for myself. All again I need is a new Back Bag because Chinese manufactured selling at 20 euros will last 20 days only? One euro per day. Sure, Chinese persons think that its much less cost than owning a automobile but for a simple back bag? Maybe we should train them basic shewing skills? And I got my own shampoo and soap to be showered in Front Frontiada again. And I finally got myself a new sleeping bag. This was a Christmas present from me to myself having extra 20 euros to my pocket. The last one was purchased once from Estonia supermarket for the reason going to Heavy Rock festival and was summer one. I had travelled with this over an Europe several years but for the winter and showers, it was too cold now to sleep. My new sleeping bag has been coming extremely useful as from the second Christmas day the thunderstorms began and weather turned wet and cold. And as libraries has been closed, the only way to keep myself warm has been inside this sleeping bag. I´m not much a person who like to sleep in Bank ATM offices like others from Eastern Europe and Russia are doing. Mother Theresa gave us a big party with the best restaurant food on Christmas Eve and the party continued next day. She had spent a fortune to feed us thousand Europeans here and European Politicians are bullshitting in Europarlament. christmas mother theresa barcelona http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/a-man-with-a-dog-is-walking-from-Berlin-to-Africa.html a-man-with-a-dog-is-walking-from-Berlin-to-Africa Fri, 19 2008 16:30:24 We got recently new habitat in our park. A German man with his black dog. He has walked from Berlin to Barcelona as with a dog the hitchhiking is impossible. He walks around 20-40 kilometers per day and as he didnt like Barcelona, continued his walk by the beach. Sometimes he hopes to get money from the family to cross the Mediterranean sea. IT will cost around 50 euros to get the ferry from Almeria to Morocco. Why the Africa has become our new hope for civilization? In Alberge I met an Englishman being always surrounded by a group of black people. Finally I have met some really intelligent guys as those black people from Mali, Guam and Somalia where learning Catalonia, rather than already known Spanish language to finally get some simple job here. There are lot of differences between those languages as for example: weekdays names are totally different, instead of "cerrado" you will see the signs "tancar", etc. They had become to the conclusion that running a democratic government, the military is not necessary as with military becomes corruption. And this englishman finally got a job in boats. Anyway, the German guy has been in Columbia and Venezuela telling me differences between those countries. In Columbia the Police is nice and people are not. In Venezuela the people are nice and Police are not. Anyway, the human intelligent has born in Africa and after thousands of years of evolution, intelligent people should go back to their roots. Another guy living in our park is a professor of Arabic languages from the university of Lebanon. Because his views where too "European" there, he is now in "Europe" living in our park. He told me a lot of AlQaida as there never has been such kind of organisation. It was just of bunch of persons from "intelligentsia" who felt that they have abused. And showed their power. Now we have been in ghost hunting seven years fighting with windmills. It should belong to medieval age having Don Quiotte rather than 21 century politics? Anyway, another interesting persons has been British punks who demand to pray to their god in Catholic Church or have the shower. Now the German guy with a dog has continued his journey while I'm still in Barcelona believing to human spirit in Europe. berlin walking europe africa civilization http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Shower-are-for-drug-addicts-and-alcoholics-only-.html Shower-are-for-drug-addicts-and-alcoholics-only- Tue, 16 2008 16:02:48 There are two additional addresses where to go to have a shower. One is in the city center, just 5 minutes from St. Augusto where I have gor my dinner, near the metro Jaume 1 at Sant Honorat 4. Its open from 9AM to 1PM working days and besides showers have Internet, coffee and some food. When I first got there afternoon, the clock was over 1PM but there where very nice persons working and they gave me also another address at Riereta 24 (parallel to Rambla del Raval) where I could take the shower afternoon 4PM to 7PM. So I went there where the rooms where full of alcoholics. Also met one punk from UK who was too desperate to get a shower. Not much staff there, there was one door showing hygienica and another door opened to services had a line behind the door. So I stayed in line and was surprised that the person inside was always inviting somebody else inside instead of me. So finally when I had a possibility to ask about the shower she said "no". Why? She said we are private foundation we have right to choose our customers. So I went back next morning to get shower from Sant Honorat. But this time they where not so nice and told that showers are for drug users only. So I could become a drug user if you insist so to get a shower finally!!! This is ridiculous that you are denying basic hygienic rights from me and wanted that they call the police as I do not have any phone anymore. So maybe in prison I could get a shower or maybe Police will send me to doctors that they will prescribe me a shower. They didn´t call the Police but some their own security guys just throw me out from there. Being so humiliated I waited to next morning as as it was raining in night, didnt had much sleep so was 7.30 AM Fontfonrada 8 near by Parallelo and took the number to have the shower at 9.30 AM. Compared to Meridiana, they at least had hot water there but you really need to be early to get your morning shower. If I would have been drug user or alcoholic, I could have my shower in much better environment. barcelona social services drugs alcoholics http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-Muslims-should-pray-in-Catholic-Church-.html Why-Muslims-should-pray-in-Catholic-Church- Tue, 09 2008 19:07:45 It has been already second time for my daily food delivered by Mother Theresa when I sit near by the Muslim who during the period of "Padre Mia" pray will pray for the "Allah". And I have met ex Saddam's Secret Police persons there who represent same arrogance than Brits. They just take other persons food, mix it up, split on it and then want to give it to someone. Even during the pray the joke with laud voice. Sure, they are British trained as true Muslims will eat whatever they can get in current situation as all the facts are showing. They are not Muslims and never wont be true Muslims. Why Muslims cant get their food from their Church? Why we have destroyed their families, their capabilities to live honestly and support themselves? In the area of my bedroom has been fantastic guy from Lebanon nearby. Actually the area starting to be crowded because new homeless persons from Russia and Poland are now finding it. It has been secure area so far and we hope to keep it that way. We usually talk a lot about the politics, culture and civilization. He knows a lot about AlQaida and Taliban. As Taliban is "you for me me for you" AlQaida has much more intelligence. There isn't actually AlQaida as a organisation nowhere as we Europeans think. In certain situation there could be certain people who want to make certain steps and that's AlQaida. How can you win a war against it? Taliban is just happy to take the advantage of the situation and just kill as they have trained by Western Civilisation. AlQaida Muslims Church Taliban http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/why-Europe-must-have-so-many-holidays-.html why-Europe-must-have-so-many-holidays- Tue, 09 2008 12:34:52 It was last Saturday when there was "holiday waiting for Monday" in Spain. Or maybe they waited "mad man" as lunes means also somebody whose lives outside reality. Anyway the Monday comes and there is again holiday in Monday. There is enough mad persons in Spain so no need to have holidays to new ones. When living in UK there was always banking holidays. You had just recovered from previous one and new one comes. Should banks be more worried about current economic state rather than having holidays? And the Christmas was over ten days!!! It didnt took Jesus to born ten days so why we are celebrating it so long? Yep, it took him to die three days so maybe eastern holidays is accurate but definitely not Christmas. And Northern Ireland had their own holidays after British holidays so for example around 12th of July everything was closed nearly a week. Previously those holidays didnt much matter for me as I was able to do my work then. But now, when I'm in the mercy of society, I cant live my everyday life so its so frustrating for me. And we never wont be able to get the work done having so many holidays. europe holidays society http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Life-priorities-.html Life-priorities- Mon, 01 2008 12:30:43 Even trying to survive without money, I still need some small things each day costing me money. Here is the list of my daily priorities: Even getting good food each morning from Mother Theresa, I still want to eat something during evening period. Usually it’s a 220-240g French baguette. You can take bread with you from a daily meal but usually its several days old and I prefer fresh bread which is much tastier. The price of baguette in Spain varies a much from a location. Here in Barcelona the cheapest one is in Lidl costing 35 cents, other supermarkets have prices between 49-79 cents. Problem day is the Sunday when supermarkets are closed. Never use OpenCor, which is owned by Les Ingels Corteis and is most expensive superstore, where the pan will cost over one euro. Every small boutique like Forn de Pa will sell it to you for 80 cents and sometimes give you free coffee when you start to eat it inside. Tobacco Papers is my next priority. Having them will be much more hygienic to collect recyclable tobacco from the streets than using half used cigarettes directly. My favorite is blue “Smoking” which is right size thin paper, costing from 55 cents in the tobacco shop at old town calle Hospital to 60-65 cents. It´s somehow more expensive than in UK; where green Rizzla was only 20 pence. Vine is my third priority as it gives taste to the bread, gets your stomach feel good and makes you good sleep. One liter of boxed vine will cost 59 cents in most of the supermarkets. I will write about vine tasting in some future post. In Sundays there is a possibility to buy Don Simon (most favorite drunker brand) for 1 Euro in every Alimentations instead going to Spar Express. Having your own tobacco instead of recycled one is a big day even it’s so cheap here in Spain. My favorite is red Ziggy costing 1.50 per 36 gram, however for 1 euro you can buy 30 gram of red Ducados or 25 gram Virgia Brand called Djembre. As my need is only 10 grams per day, this will last several days. Having a cheese or ham with your bread makes life worth living again. You can get French brie from Lidl below 1 Euro, 400 gram Pork Sausage will cost 89 cents; Salami was little bit over a Euro. And if you spare 10-20 cents, you can get one tomato. Chocolate is something that I sometimes miss and there is no such kind 500gram Dark Chocolate for cooking packages as it was in France. However in Bon Area was cheapest place to get it for 60 cents per 150 gram. Having all those will make my life worth of living. life money food tobacco http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Libraries-are-most-important-places.html Libraries-are-most-important-places Sat, 29 Dec 2008 16:44:14 Living in the streets doesn't mean that I should abandon my daily routines and work. The society has still built us libraries which are so far best places to gain intelligence as current schools in UK are not able even to teach writing skills and have implemented supervised prison type environment. When its raining outside you cant much stay inside shopping centers or stations as security will throw you out. But you can always trust libraries where also the toilets are clean and available. But to use them properly in Spain, you need a library card. Spanish library cards are useful in any state library so once given to you, its like a NIE (social security) number needed to find any work. But you need a local permanent address and phone number to get it. and there is always ways to talk someone over to give you such kind of card without any verification. If not possible in one library, try another. For the Internet, all Barcelona libraries have WiFi for clients so you must have a library card to use your laptop. As there are usually very much people using Internet this way, most of those libraries have special WiFi areas or rooms even and you will get free electricity to use and recharge your batteries. Another way is to use local computers. There is two type of Internet computers: Internet and Internet Multimedia. Internet is containing Web browser only and you cant much save or manage your files. Only few libraries had Web based MSN messenger included to browser. Internet "rapido" is free to use anyone up to 15 minutes (you can take longer if nobody is waiting for it) and does not need a reservation. But in biggest libraries, you do not have even a chair to sit. Internet needs a reservation, which you can do using Internet Reservation computer usually near by Catalog computers. You can take it by half and hour slots. Internet multimedia computers are usually located in separate room and have Microsoft office installed besides web browser so you can save and manage your files. To get access to those, you need to ask reservation. Libraries in Barcelona are some very small and some in several floors. They work usually 10AM-2PM and 4PM-8PM, but some days they do not have a break, some are open Saturday afternoon even and two of them Sunday morning. My daily life has been to start my trip from one library after the meal from Mother Theresa, getting to another afternoon and ending my day in the third library. Lets start from Paralello when you will find nice small library Poble Sec Francesc Boix at Blai 34 (paralell to parallelo). They have very few computers at second floor so if not possible to make reservation there, you should continue to parc Joan Miro where is another small nice library of Joan Miro. Its just after the placa Espanya. If that is closed (open in very odd hours), continue your trip to plaza Saints where you will find Vapor Well after crossing the street which goes to Estacio Sants and will continue to next street up. Even usually I haven´t made reservation using them as sitting just to free computer, now I got clear that they have limitation to use Internet only 1H per day and maximum 2H per week. Sure there is more libraries going upside to Corts but I haven't studied those. In the Plaza Lepps up is one big library called Jaume Fuster which is open sunday mornings (when it has been extremly difficult to get the reservation) and another Sunday morning library is Sagrada Family (near by the most famous church) at Provencia 480. The Sagrada Family is nice big and quiet place to work not so far from city Center. Going up to the hills, there is nice small library in the Parc de les Aigues. And my favorite is of course Xavier Benguell at avenue Bogatell (near by the sea where I sleep). Its quiet and very friendly not so far from the city center. I have checked some other libraries but most of them are small local community centers like Fort Fenc. Vila the Garcia (at the traverse of Gracia) is a nice library even the toilets has been always closed and I haven't yet figured out their working hours. At least, knowing your libraries and having a catalynia library card, you can feel safe in Barcelona. Especially when there is raining or you have need for the toilet. barcelona libraries internet wifi http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-its-impossible-to-get-honest-job-.html Why-its-impossible-to-get-honest-job- Thu, 27 Dec 2008 10:48:00 When I lived in small town Tartu I was desperate of money and a job. So I find a decent job to be walking track cleaner. For me it was a same that I was doing without getting paid as every morning I went to walk this track and collected garbage. So went to the director of this track and explained that previously I have successfully built up a software business in Estonian, later went to NYC and developed it to global scale. And he was only asking "Did you recently got out from prison?". So I assumed that doing a job what you like, you should be prisoned before. So I went to Spain with a hope that maybe there is help needed in some pub or bar. But I didnt had any previous experience which was requested by those employers. So, I offered that I could work few weeks without getting paid to get experience. But this is not allowed by the law!!! Who are those people making such kind of laws against human evolution. Exploring and learning new things is what made us humans at first place. I was happy in Brighton when I was successful to work on beach cleaning. But actually it meant that I should start from recycling which was OK for me. But there wasn't any work. During few month period, I went every day 6.40 AM with my gear to depo and got only eight days of work. Same time the city was full of garbage. My idea of the work was that I have my own streets where I have the responsibility to get them clean. The system was totally different and mismanaged. Recently in Belfast I was extremely happy that I was invited to "market researcher" training with a promise to get a job in Ipsos Mori. I was the only one in the class to get all test sheets interviewed in the street being back first and started everything with new excitement. Wanted to do supervised interview next day and start to work again. To my surprise, the supervisor didnt kept her promise to call me back and when on Monday and Tuesday I went there asking for her, I only got a letter informing that I was unsuccessful? So I went to the street again making my own questionnaire by their standards and interviewed two weeks quota of 26 persons from different social classes within few hours with the results that they are a bunch of liers manipulating results for their clients expectations. Even the person training us didnt know how to switch the laptop to show training slides in big screen. And most of the people they where recruiting didnt had any excitement to do any job at all being more worried about their personal life. Who can believe their research results? Why there isnt any decent job to honest and responsible persons anymore? jobs society honesty http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Social-Services-can-give-you-showers-only.html Social-Services-can-give-you-showers-only Tue, 25 Dec 2008 19:29:57 Any person living in the street should take frequent showers. At least those you can get from Social Services when being there around 9AM to take your number. However, as this morning time lapses when you could have your daily warm meal by Mother Theresa, you have a choice there to make. I have been visiting Social Services office at Av Meridiana 197, but there should be more like Centre de Dia Poble Sec in Calle Fontfonrada 8. You again will get your number and will wait over an hour for your turn. On same address in Meridiana is possible to ask more Social Food but usually they will deny such kind of request. At least yesterday one young black guy having Spanish residency card and being denied called the Police. He just didn’t believe that society will leave him and his family to die for the hunger and refused to leave the building. At least you can get some food being jailed and from my experiences they are sending you to the mental institution check where you can get some food again for next weeks until the same procedure begin again. That’s why Mother Theresa has become from India now to feed Europeans as EU economy cannot afford it anymore. With the clothes there is kind of recycling process going one as when you give your dirty ones to them you can choose some others clean ones. Seems to be working OK as who wants to own tons of clothes anyway and always buy new ones. But I would like to keep my underwear and jeans my own, and you won’t get a proper boots and leather jackets from them. What I can only complain is that usually the water for shower is too cold and why cannot I have my head shaven there? social services spain showers http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Sleeping-outside-will-get-you-robbed.html Sleeping-outside-will-get-you-robbed Tue, 25 Dec 2008 15:22:38 It was some nights ago, when I got robbed during my sleep. It was expected here in Spain but at least they left me my boots. Usually they rob homeless person’s shoes but this time they just took my mobile and last 50 Euros. Somehow I was careless to get my jacket not below my head and slept in too open space, so this happened. So having spent so much money to Orange (around 100 Euros in France and 20 Euros in Spain), still not having Internet access the destiny decided that Orange wont be right partner for me. The phone was UIQ Sony Ericsson which will be discontinued now, so I’m desperate to get myself Apple iPhone now and will buy Vodaphone SIM. At least previously I haven’t had any problems with them. I feel sad about this 50 Euros because I had much plans to it. As here started to be colder, I’m desperate to get myself new sleeping bag. My older one is purchased once in Estonia just to go Rock Festival over five years ago in summer and afterwards I had spent six months in Spain with it and now more than three months in travel. Even in good condition, it still mentioned for the summer and does not handle colder weather. And my head needs to shave and clothes washed. But I still wonder who are those persons robbing homeless persons shoes? Are they those career oriented frustrated managers or those judges who are not even let you talk? robbery outside spain http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Catholic-Church-is-taking-here-about-humans-at-least-in-Spain.html Catholic-Church-is-taking-here-about-humans-at-least-in-Spain Thu, 20 Dec 2008 19:42:55 When I lived in Northern Ireland I saw how corrupted the Catholic Church was there. They had abandoned the Jesus and were only robbing money as everyone else did. So I went to ask help from Salvation Army who where to my surprise more corrupted criminals. They insisted that I should have a note from Social Security Agency when I want to get their help costing me 36 pounds per week otherwise it would cost me 98 pounds per week? What kind of rights Salvation Army have to raise money by putting absolutely untalented musicians to raise money from the streets if some criminal elements are already financing them? At least in Spain the Catholic Church takes care about humans. You can go to Plaza St. Augusti where there is a sign “Mother Theresa from Calcutta” each morning (expect Thursdays) around 9AM and get the number. If you are late, the second round becomes after 10.45 to be served around 11.30. At least you will get your stomach full and meet interesting people like punks from UK. The atmosphere there is like hungry people waiting to pray for Jesus who finally will give them all satisfaction for the day. You will get more Supermarket food to take with you for the evening and you only need to know the prier of Jesus in Spanish. spain catholic church criminals corruption http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Social-food-keeps-you-hungry.html Social-food-keeps-you-hungry Wed, 19 Dec 2008 18:05:38 There is two places where you can get free meals from Social Security Agency each promising you only three meals for you passport and then you will need Social Worker letter or for more permanent needs they have issued cards called “tarjetas”. One of them is in Aveniuda Parallel 97 (Metro Poble Sec) called “comedor Paralelo” and another in Aveniuda Meridiana 238/240 (Metro Navas) called “comedor Navas”. You will get a salad or soup, meal, little bit bread, yogurt or cake between 12.30 and 14.00 but the portions are so small that I wondered did I just had a lunch or I’m I going to get lunch. Even bread is limited. The first salad or soup is somehow bigger but the actual meal is so small that I would call just a snack. “Comedor Meridiana” somehow loved to serve one small chicken leg with handful pieces of chips to be your daily meal. You can get better meal as dinner from restaurant La Terraseta between 17.30 and 20.00 which works on same limit as “Comedor Parallelo”. But as its situating upper part of the city near metro Joanic, it’s at least two hour walk from the city centre. The full address is Calle Fraternitat 40 but its so small street so you should find Travessera de Garcia, then in the cross of Torre de Olla is small Biblioteca which has been closed most of the times I have tried to enter, so walk to north little bit when the market starts and turn down from there to find it. Exactly 17.30 is becoming line of drunken persons showing their “tarjeta”´s to come in and if lucky, you will get the number, wait in the terrace and have your meal there. There is another place nearby where you can get coffee and wieners on Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9AM to 11AM called “Centre YaYa Lluisa”. It’s situated in the Placa de Raspal numero 1 and has some social help available for local persons having “tajetas”. My next entry will be where you really get some food by believing to God. food barcelona social help http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Alberge-in-Barcelona.html Alberge-in-Barcelona Fri, 14 Dec 2008 17:16:38 Alberge is social house where homeless people could get food, shower and sleep. There is actually three Alberges in Barcelona but seems that they will need more to accommodate those 1900 homeless persons here. It’s difficult but not impossible to get in. One of them is near city centre - Almogavares 199 and two others are out of the town. You will find it when you start to walk from Plaza Catalanes (where the big building like Didlo is) towards to the sea. Its old firehouse and if you want to get in, you should be waiting there at least from 5 even the door opens at 8 PM. Newcomers will stand on the right side as old ones will queue from left. You will get a nice dinner, shower and place to sleep from 11PM until 8AM and breakfast as coffee and wiener. If you are already in, you can stay one week which can be continued by social worker if necessary. I was waiting only two days as each day they took around 3-5 new persons. If you cant get in to Almogavares, you can try emergency social services at Calle Commerce 44 after 10PM. It’s a place where all Alberge information is centralised and it’s situating near old town where Arc the Triumph is. If there has been somebody not showing up by 10PM, you can get their place. But Alberge have their rules, so you cant be drunk or take any alcohol with you, knifes and scissors cant be bring in, you need to sign in between 8-10PM and most of all, people are snoring when sleeping in small crowded room being watched by red cross personnel. I was there only because its started to rain for two nights when rain ended and I was again able to sleep outside. I prefer sleeping in the park, rather than in Alberge. I hope that my place was given to someone more urgent to get inside. There are other places where you can get free food and for shower, I will recommend Social Services in Avenida Meridiana 197 where you need to be before 9AM to get your number. homeless hostel barcelona http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Barcelona-is-a-big-City.html Barcelona-is-a-big-City Fri, 14 Dec 2008 11:37:23 When it went cold in Limoges and my free meals run out, I started to move more south with a destination to Spain. I wanted to avoid Toulouse because once being there I didn’t like the city at all and was walking out from the city two days to hitchhike again. This time I used those two days to walk rounding highway as tried again hitchhike towards to Perpignan on any cross two hours without luck, I just walked to next one and tried there until finally got a ride. The weather turned rainy and having spent a night in some small village, I choose not to get anymore to the motorway and turned to small roads which took me very quickly to Perpignan. Those mountain roads had extremely nice views and even I could have the possibility to take the route thru Andorra, I afraid that there is very cold in the high mountains to sleep outside. Somehow I got stuck to Perpignan for two days hoping the weather to get better. There are not much homeless centers in Perpignan and only thing you can get is a cup of coffee and bread. Getting to Spain was very easy using normal roads instead motorway because some hippies living in the mountains without electricity just went to buy tobacco from other side. The cost of tobacco will go three times when changing country, so it costs three times less in France than UK and three times less in Spain than France. Same is for vine price so you can live very cheaply in Spain where 36 grams of tobacco will cost only 1.50 Euros and one litre of vine 59 cents. I got to the south end of Barcelona where it took another day for me to walk to the city centre. It seems to be bigger than Paris where it took me one day to walk all the City and two days to walk out to the motorway where was possible to hitchhike to the Orleans. The Diagonal goes from South end motorway to the North end beach, Gran Via Catalones divides the City, and there is Parallel which goes up to the South side and Meridian which goes to north side. As my favourite places are Sants, Park Guell, Av, Bogatell and the food is in City centre it takes me always two hours to walk from one place to another. So Im mainly spending my time walking and thanks to Cruz Roja, I got new boots as my old ones didn’t stand the rain and walk. My back bag is also Rota (broke) so Im desperate of getting some 20 Euros to buy new one. The back bag cost me 50 pounds in UK and lasted only two trips. What kind of crap Britts are selling with such a high price? I was hoping it to last years as it’s my home now when I have joined with the army of 1900 homeless persons in Barcelona. barcelona spain hitchiking travel http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-begging-on-the-street-is-viable-option.html Why-begging-on-the-street-is-viable-option Wed, 12 Dec 2008 11:28:56 When I started to produce software we licensensed exe modules to customers and everything was fine. We where able to reinvest revenues to develop new more productive methods and technologies. But then somebody (probably either hippie or communist) becomes with the idea, that everything should be free and open source. And everyone suddenly wanted to be programmers having no talent at all. With the Internet they even find customers who really belived that Internet makes them quickly rich. Then it comes Google to save the world telling to programmers that they could run their ads with the software and still make money. Without knowing, what kind of ads will be shown, how much can I expect from the click and what could be my average click thru rate, its impossible to write any decent business plan even. So far I have find out that raising money in the street is much more profitable option with better conversion rate and better earnings. From Google I could get two to twenty US cents per click as people in the street are usually giving me average 1 EURo. So why I should spend my time and talent to produce new and innovative intellectual property? google software money business http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Nice-city-Limoges-in-France.html Nice-city-Limoges-in-France Tue, 11 Dec 2008 12:57:20 After waiting the situation somehow solved within a week, I started to move more south. Next city was Limoges and as mentioned one girl who picked me up, people in Limoges are very friendly. But you wont earn much money there in the streets as friendly people are usually poor. Thats why its very difficult to raise money in the streets of Limoges. So I find out, that homeless persons should call 115 in France to get shelter but as the weather stayed nice, I preferred to sleep outside in parks. The place where you can stay is called ALBRI in France, like in Spain there is ALBERGE. Spanish and French languages are similar when you read but they pronounce everything so different. After crossing the Neuf bridge and turning right, there is very long park which will end to the city end from nearly center. From the center of the town, where is Medioteca (biblioteca with Internet) and University, when you turn to Avenue de Midi, there is a place called Restaurante Social where everyone can eat for 1.20 EUR between 11.30-1 PM and 17.30-18.30. If you don't have even so much, you can turn to Social Services and they will give you a letter to have those meals free of charge. Each meal contains soup, second plate, cheese, yogurt or fruits, bread and coffee. Sandwiches costs 80 cents and the breakfast between 8.30 and 9.30 was free. For the breakfast you will get a very big cup of coffee or cacao and bread only. Anyway as Social Services gave me ten times to eat, I was staying in Limoges around a week until it started to rain and went really cold. It was end of October and winter seems to start in France. Even Paris was full of homeless people, for me it was too cold to sleep outside so I decided to move forward to Spain. The Internet was still a problem in Limoges as there where two places for free WiFi: Medioteca and Tourist Information Center. As both of them had Internet down during my week in Limoges, I just picked up some Apple Network WiFi signal and used it outside in parking place. University WiFi nearby needs password and so was railway station. Anyway, trying to recharge my Dell batteries where possible, I broke the power connector and when trying to open my Dell Lattidude D520 to fix it, I broke some cable inside and wasn't able to get it open even. So besides being homeless, I´m now computerless also. France homeless WiFi food http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Small-village-Les-Herrolles-in-France.html Small-village-Les-Herrolles-in-France Mon, 10 Dec 2008 18:56:07 Actually pronounced as lezeroll. Those girls stayed in smaller village called les petite herolles just before the main village where were only five houses. Actually there wasn´t any difference because there wasn´t any shops or pubs open in les herroles also. Nearest supermarket was around twenty kilometers away. Before that was more civilized town called Anyway, my hope to use my mobile for data access vanished also there because the two roaming network available there wasn’t supporting even GPRS. So we ordered Orange broadband which was promised to us within ten days but actually took more than a month. As those girls didn’t have any income and I wasn’t able to start any work, my money started to vanish quickly. They where eating totally expensive food like yogurts, milk, and cheese which had to be purchased from supermarket costing a more even to get there. And waiting the Internet was getting me nervous o I had to get at least some vines for myself. My last money around 400 Euro went to buy a car because without a car there was impossible to live there and girls won’t get any work either. There was possible to work collecting bombs (les pommes – apples or potatoes). Anyway, finally when we had to be internet connected next week after a month waiting I went to Paris for the weekend leaving girls with a car to Chateroux. When I got back, the house was closed and girls vanished. So this confirmed me again that Estonians are robbers specially those who are drinking milk. Those girls names are Valli Kink and Enely Pall so please be careful with them even Valli can generate several feasible business ideas within few hours they are not trustworthy to invest and execute those. france internet girls estonians http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Chateroux-France.html Chateroux-France Mon, 10 Dec 2008 18:55:03 My idea was first to hitchhike again to Spain which seems to be my favorite place when I will get totally frustrated with some country. So I did when I went from Estonia in 2004 and spent six months there until got bored and hitchhiked to UK. But, when I got invitation to stay with two Estonian born lesbian girls in France, I took their offer. I had agreed to work with one internet marketing project, and as internet was no available besides modem, broadband, WiFi also as 3G, I just took my Vodaphone dongle with me and hoped it will connect to some network there. I left Belfast on Friday without any money as I was frustrating to wait more than a month when Social Security agency will finally execute court orders. I just went there and told them, that I will give it to the collection agency and they will take your computers also away declaring this agency to bankruptcy. After 20 minutes they called me that they have made some transfers today but I was already in my away. At least I had money to pay the ferry ticket because seems that for this ferry it isn’t so easy to get free lift as it was getting to It could have been possible to be in Chateroux by Saturday, but I took my trip easy and was there by Sunday evening to find out that they are actually staying in small village called les herroles some hundred kilometers from the town. At least I hoped to get my mobile number and internet sorted out on Monday. But seems that Monday is shopping free day in France general, their shops are open 9-12 and 3-5 only. Anyway, mobile internet is such kind of thing in France that I wrote separate article about it and their mobile fees are total robbery. Anyway, was finally able to get myself prepaid mobile SIM card from BoygTel only and loaded 80 EUR to it that hopefully I can use as modem or at least read my emails. My hope starting the project work within next days was starting to vanish. Later I spent more than a week in this beautiful City and asking money from the street, I raised 17 EUR in an hour there because one young guy gave me 10 Euros. But there is no Internet in Chateroux. The only WiFis where in McDonalds which restricted me to use any other ports besides web browsing and was limited to 15 minutes and in their small Tourist Information Office for quick use only. There is nice park besides the river where you could sleep peacefully until it started to get cold there. france internet mobile http://life.mobiblogi.com/articles/Leaving-UK.html Leaving-UK Mon, 10 Dec 2008 11:14:30 After having spent two meaningless years in Belfast, before that two meaningless years in Brighton and before that in corrupted Estonia it was time again me to move somewhere else decent place. It has become clear to me that Western Society does not tolerate anymore honest, competent and intelligent persons and will continue the war against them naming it “war against terrorism”. Im now even criminal in UK causing stress and anxiety to BBC. It wasn’t me who went to occupy Kabul, it was John Simpson – a BBC employee who did so. And as socialistic regime collapsed exactly after ten years doing so, so will end the capitalism. I was promised a fear trial but instead they put me to the glass box like a pope and guys wearing wig presented total lays behalf of me. Im only surprised how those kinds of judges have took their rights to judge me. As a spiritual person, I have prayed that once there will be a day when God will judge those people including liars and criminals in Ipsos Mori. But the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland are now so corrupted, so either I should go to Muslims or find a place where civilised values are still tolerated. society uk BBC capitalism