Eiva Poppins: Brighton Blogger

I've been to Barcelona several times now and I am absolutely in love with the city, people and the culture. If you haven't been then you should go. There's a few things I'd like to recommend for anyone who's planning a trip to Catalonia's capital. I mean it's really exciting just being there and walking around. There's so much to see out there so even after four visits I don't feel like I know Barcelona well enough BUT I saw a little bit. This time I went with a disposable camera so most of them were underexposed or overexposed but never mind. It is what it is haha. 

I took my cruiser with me. If you like skateboarding then you know that Barcelona is like world skateboard's Mecca. One of the iconic skate parks is Marbella right by the beach but have a look on this website to find out more. If you prefer cruising around instead of skate park like me (it's because I cannot do any tricks haha) then I recommend you to go to the top of the road called Passeig de Sant Joan and on the cycling path go all the way down Parc de la Ciutadella which is in my opinion one of the prettiest parks in Barcelona. Entry to the park is for free it's really worth seeing. It has beautiful fountains, palm trees, statues, little lake and lots of parrots:-). After that you might as well go hang out to the beach - it's really close. There's lots of places where you can rent skateboards, bikes or vespas. In the past I did rent from Deviant Bikes and they were really helpful.
My another favourite park (which has just the most amazing view) is called Park Güell - perfect place to watch a sunset or a sunrise if you like early mornings! The park is over a hundred years old and was mostly designed by Antoni Gaudí.
 I've been to a nice Mexican restaurant called La Hacienda which is a walking distance from Barceloneta station.. if you like walking :-). I had great enchiladas there and also a yummy rice based drink Horchata. Around Las Ramblas is lots of nice restaurants and it is good for vegetarians too. All food I tried in Barcelona was actually nice and if you get a chance visit Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria right by Liceu station. It is full of fresh fruit, juices, smoothies, meat and sweets. It's quite cheap as well.
My new favourite place for cocktails is bar Nevermind where they project skate videos on the wall and in the back there's even a skate bowl...also during the happy hour I was drinking mojitos for €3.50 which is not an unusual price in Spainish bars.. but coming from England it felt really cheap.My favourite part of the city is Gràcia which used to be an independent town from Barcelona. It has its own identity, there's street markets and nice vintage and independent shops too.
Anyway...that's just a few things but really just walk around and get lost, go to see Sagrada La Familia, go to a rooftop bar, have some tapas, visit museums and beaches. Have churros with chocolate. Learn some Spanish.

top - Zara, skirt - Stradivarius, boots - New Look (given by my lovely friend Essie - thank you!), socks/bag - The Whitepepper

One morning I got an email from Scott Vincent saying he found my Instagram and this blog and liked it so he did a graffiti of me. I was shocked as obviously that doesn't usually happen to me haha. It's just bit funny looking at yourself and it's just massive. It is based on this selfie actually haha. Not sure what else to say really, I just found it really funny.

There was lots of rats running around right by the graffity when me and Benjamin Le Bon Mckenzie taking these pictures haha. You should check out some of his work here. Thank you very much for the photos Ben. It was nice to meet you!

Oh and I think nobody yet sprayed anything over my face. I was kind of hoping someone would do it and then I can feel like I have haters and feel important hahaha.

P.S.: I just came back from few days in Barcelona so I will be posting some pictures soon. (In my case 'soon' could be months haha.) It was nice to be back and skate around :-).

Jednoho den rano jsem nasla mail od Scott Vincent. Napsal mi ze nasel muj Instagram a tenhle blog a ze se mu libil a tak udelal graffiti se mnou. Zvlastni, ne? Haha. Byla jsem samozrejme celkem prekvapena, protoze to se mi vazne nestava casto. Kdyz jsem se tam byla kouknout (samozrejme jeste ten den co mi napsal haha) tak mi to pripadalo uplne sileny. Je to zalozeno na tehle selfie a jak rikam, fakt by me absolutne nikdy nenapadlo, ze tohle nekdo udela. Je to vtipny.
Tyhle fotky fotil Ben Mckenzie a vic jeho pracemuzete videt tady. Foceni bylo celkem zajimavy, vsude po zemi a po stenach pobihaly krysy haha.
Myslim ze jeste porad nikdo nenasprejoval nic pres muj oblicej, tak trochu doufam, ze to nekdo udela a ja si budu pripadat dulezite, ze mam haters ale tak asi neee haha.
P.S.: Zrovna jsem se predevcirem vratila z Barcelony, kde jsem byla na par dni, takze brzo (to v mympripade muze znamenat tydny i mesice) budu postovat nejaky fotky. 

Few weeks ago I got an email from Laura Forest (how good is that name! i know) asking me if I would like to be one of the bloggers photographed for the new The Whitepepper magazine and obviously I was like YES YES YES haha. This is the best thing which happened to me thanks to blogging :). The Whipepper is my favourite independent label so being in their magazine is a dream come true. Do you remember this article featuring TWP satchel bag? <3 Anyway I visited  their shop and they took some pictures of me wearing one of the shirts from their new collection. They are based in East London and when you come in it's not just a shop. There's a showroom, a photo studio and an office full of stylish and smart looking ladies! I felt really welcomed and I wish I could have stayed forever haha. They had lots of funny props in their studio like that alien mask worn by myself or elf ears worn by Emma, blogger for Archer Avenue. I got invited to their lovely launch party so one day after work I got a train to London because I didn't want to miss it. I was well surprised when I found out I got a whole page in their magazine! Look. Wow. We all got a cute cotton bag full of goodies including TWP socks, yummy popcorn or my Vita Coco Water. There was a DJ playing some good tunes. There was rum and gin... and also Emma Block who is a very talented illustrator and you should check her out on Instagram if you haven't heard of her yet.
The new TWP Autumn/Winter collection just arrived on their website few days ago so have a look. Unlike my pictures taken on film their collection is very colourful :-). I'm thinking about getting this coat. What do you think?

Novou kolekci uz maji na jejich strankach tak se mrknete. Narozdil od mych fotek na film jejich kolekce je ve skutecnosti hodne barevna. Premyslim, ze si koupim tenhle kabat. Co si myslite?

I found few undeveloped films when I was tidying my room (that doesn't happen very often to be honest with you) and look what was on them. Amsterdam! It's been ages since me and my friend Vojta went but I do remember there was bikes, people, cars, motorbikes EVERYWHERE. There was lots of waffles and I had a great time when we went on a boat cruise. I had some lovely pancakes in Dam. Once we got lost somewhere in north and instead of hanging out in some cool part where we were going we ended up by a little pond with ducks haha. I am definitely blaming Vojta for that (even tho it was my idea..). I think Dutch sounds really good. Also, Anne Frank house is worth the visit especially if you read the book.

P.S.: I kinda prefer pictures on film now. I wish it wasn't so expensive.

Nasla jsem par nevyvolanych filmu u sebe v pokoji kdyz jsem uklizela (to se nestava zas tak casto abych byla uprimna) a kouknete, co jsem nasal. Fotky z Amstru! Uz je to nekolik mesicu co jsem tam stravila tri (a nebo ctyri?) dny s mym kamaradem Vojtou, ale porad jeste si pamatuju, ze vsude byli cyklisti a chodci a motorkari a auta..VSUDE. Taky tam bylo hodne wafli a sladkosti a moc se mi libilo, kdyz jsme byli na lodi. Mela jsem tam skvely palacinky a moc se mi libila Holandstina. Jo a taky si pamatuju, jak jsme jeli nekam do severniho Amsterdamu, ale misto nejake zajimave ctvrti kam jsme mirili jsme skoncili u nejakyho rybnicku s kachnama haha. Za to samozrejme vinim Vojtu (ackoliv jet tam byl napad muj:). A dum Anny Frank taky stoji za navstevu, zvlast pokud jste jeji denik milujete jako ja.

P.S. Tak nejak se mi ty fotky na film libi vic nez digitalni. Kez by to vyvolavani nebylo tak drahy.

For the fifth time in last two years I moved again! I left my old little bedsit in Kemptown for a flat in central Brighton which I share with my friend Meg, we share Nutella and life is good. I love sitting on my window and watching people in the park. There is people playing music all the time..sometimes it's nice..sometimes it's not that nice haha. But I really like it here and I'm fine with the noise as the one thing which was really annoying at my old place was my neighbour upstairs. That guy was crazy and I cannot even say how many times he woke me up in the middle of the night so it's nice to live somewhere where the walls are not made out of paper haha.
Also, as you can see, we found we've got a rooftop! Awww, how good is that.
Apart from that I've been alright, summer finally got to Brighton (not today, today is raining..) and I spent many afternoons on the beach or in the park drinking Iced Flat White which has Boho Gelato icecream inside..yum.
One thing which bothers me is that I won't be able go to New York this September as I planned. I called the embassy and my appointment for a passport (yep, I don't have one - I only have an ID which is enough to travel around Europe) is at the end of August and then it takes another EIGHT weeks to actually get it. I'm sorry but that's just long! I guess I'll just have to go to NY in winter or something.
My best friend Sabina is coming for over a week in three days which is so exciting and I cannot wait to just sleep, eat and drink..basically that's what we did last year and it was great.
...and last thing which has been on my mind is moving to Spain. I'm thinking about moving to Barcelona next year before the summer. I have to do it otherwise I'm never going to be fluent in Spanish.

I gotta go. I've got cakes to eat and films to watch. xx

P.S.: I got another tattoo from my friend Patrick. Look.

Tak jsem se opet prestehovala, je to uz po pate za posledni dva roky. Opustila jsem po roce svuj stary bedsit v Kemptownu pro byt v centru Brightonu, ktery sdilim s moji kamaradkou Meg. Bavi me sedet na okne a cist si a nebo spis presneji me bavi pozorovat lidi v parku. Pokud neprsi, vzdycky nekdo venku hraje hudbu, nekdy je to fajn a nekdy to zas tak fajn neni haha. Ale moc se mi tu libi a na hluk zvenku jsem si zvykla a cekala jsem to a uprednostnuju tohle, nez souseda, ktery nademnou bydlel v predchozim byte..nevim ani kolikrat me vzbudil uprostred noci svou prisernou hrou na kytaru nebo jen tim, ze se prochazel tri hodiny po byte. Jsem rada, ze jsem se ho vzbudila. Je to fajn bydlet nekde, kde nejsou zdi z papiru.
A taky tu mame velkou strechu, kde jsme prave fotily s Meg tyhle fotky. Je to moje nove oblibene misto.
Krome toho, ze jsem se prestehovala, jsem se mela celkem dobre, leto dokonce dorazilo uz i do Brightonu (dneska teda ne, dneska prsi..) a stravila jsem spoustu odpoledni a veceru na plazi a nebo v parku se zmrzlinou a Iced Flat White, to je ted moje oblibeny kafe. Jsou v tom dva shoty espressa a hlavne dva kopecky zmzrliny z Boho Gelato yum. 
Jedna vec, co me trochu stve je, ze nepojedu v zari do New Yorku, jak jsem planovala. Pred dvema tydny jsem volala na ambasadu, abych si vyridila pas (ano, mam jen obcanku, ktera mi staci na vse po Evrope) a mam schuzku az na konci srpna a pak to trva dalsich osm tydnu, nez ten pas vubec fyzicky ziskam. To mi prijde jako hodne dlouhej proces.. Tak snad se do NY podivam v zime a nebo na jare.
Moje nejlepsi kamaradka Sabina (kterou jsem tu mela uz nekolikrat) zitra vyrazi na cestu za mnou a uz se nemuzu dockat, jak budeme spat, jist, pit presne jako minule leto.
...a posledni vec na kterou jsem myslela posledni dobou je stehovani do jine zeme, presneji do Spanelska. Premejslim, ze bych se prestehovala do Barcelony pristi rok nekdy na jare a nebo v lete. Rikala jsem si, ze pokud se tam neprestehuju, tak nikdy Spanelsky plynne umet nebudu!

Ted uz musit jit. Mam v planu jit si dat banoffee pie a koukat na filmy. xx

P.S.: Vcera jsem si nechala udelat novy tetovani, opet od Patricka. Kouknete tady.