experience in Spain
Elena Kilina
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Asian studies specialist with old film camera and singing Brazilian songs all the time. According to Celtic calendar I’m salmon, in Brazil they would
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The magic of flamenco
To know a place better you should absorb into a local culture. Culture of Seville is all about flamenco. No wonder because its motherland of it. Music of Andalusia includes traditional and modern music, the people and the composed music, and hesitates from flamenco to...
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Some historic notes
The "Isla de la Cartuja" had the rich clay deposits, which potters from Triana area used for their pots and tiles. A shrine was soon raised at the spot and devotion for the image grew together with the belief in its miraculous powers. When some monasteries were sold in...
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Filming Seville (with an analogue camera)
Although I was already talking about Cadiz and closest places to Seville, I would like to get back to these places. And the excuse for it is finding my film camera and old expired films. It has become by obsession for couple years now and being in Spain isn’t...
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Jungles And Waterfalls
Escapism is a way to survive. At least if you are in the city where +46 is considered to be normal temperature. Even though I don’t have to be outside during daytime when the sun is the cruelest to poor people it is hell for me as a northern person. Normally locals in...
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Time for surfing
I can name the recent Sunday project with crew of Spain Internship "catch the white water". There was a surfing class in splendid place nearby Seville - Cadiz. Considering that I train capoeira and snowboarding, there was a confidence the surf board will be given in to...
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Hitchhiking in Spain
I had this idea for a long time, namely to hitch-hike to the sea. Being already a little bit capoerista when I had known that there would be capoeira workshops with Brazilian mestres in Cadiz on the weekend, I and my Peruvian companion decided to try hitch-hiking from...
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12 hours train Barcelona-Sevilla? Estás loca?
Si, si, I am! But when you are still undecided (sometimes lost) graduate student always searching for cheap options, there are no many variants to choose. So, expectation: would be hot, stinky and crowded almost 12 hours Barcelona-Seville train. Successfully getting...
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First in Seville
¡Qué calor! ¡Que se derrite de calor! You have to know only these two phrases in Seville which all are about how hot it is. But it’s true. Melting brain can’t think about something else. The best periods of time are early mornings and late evenings. You can feel...
