Feeding 5K

Forks ready, people! They will be serving free meal next 1st June in College Green. A menu prepared by the Thali Cafe and cooked by Pieminister will promote the issue of global hunger and food waste next Saturday between 1-5pm in the city centre.  To do my bit on the global hunger awareness, I post a list of facts and figures on world hunger compiled by the World Food Programme: 870 million people in the world do not have enough...

All you need is love!

It has been a weekend full of love: Loves saves the day on Saturday, Love saves the night on Saturday night, Love saves Sunday on Sunday (obviously)... Online tickets for "Love Saves the Day 2013" festival were sold out last March. We ran late and didn't get any tickets for that day. However, we got some for "Love Saves Sunday".  PICTURE: taken in Blue Mountain (BS1 3PR)  The festival has...

Walking trail: Banksy (1)

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls and bridges of cities throughout the world. There are more than 18 graffities made by Banksy around the city. Today, I...

Parisian mischievousness

I know my brother will be green with envy after reading this post. He once introduced me to this electro-swing band, and now I am totally in love with them: Caravan Palace. The parisian group is playing in Bristol on Friday and I am proud to say that right now, I am holding my very own ticket. They released two studio albums. The first one in 2008 called Caravan Palace and the second one Panic in 2012. The band has been playing electro-swing...

Dot to Dot

Don't you have any plan for next weekend? That's impossible! We are lucky we have a long weeekend ahead of us, otherwise we wouldn't have time to make it to all of them! Those who wanted to take the opportunity of having a long weekend to rest... good luck with it! Bristol is helding at least 4 festivals the same weekend, each one having its own specific topic and style. I am not going to list them all in this post. I will talk about just one of...

Please, pick me a little flower

A couple of weeks ago, I sowed some seeds where my flatmate calls it "your mini-garden". Yet, I just have onions, chives, parsley, thyme... and strawberries should be about to sproud shortly. I also have a bulletproof plant that never dies, with very beautiful flowers that blossom every now and then. There are hardly the people who do not associate flowers with joy and relaxation. A study published in 2005 reveals the presence of flowers triggers...

Planning the city

For the umpteenth time, Bristol City Council is encouraging citizens and neighbours to get involved in planning the city, keeping them updated and gathering their opinion about future possible works. One week ago, neighbours of St. Pauls were asked to attend a public exhibition where change proposals were displayed for the Decourcy House (BS2 8QN), which will be a student accommodation and retails space from now on. The Trinity Centre (BS2...

Almost touching the sky

After a long development process, the A350 XWB is now a reality. In a familiar presentation ceremony and surrounded by employees, the first A350 XWB emerged from its hangar in Toulouse yesterday after being painted in its Airbus livery in just seven days. The company is working very hard for the latest aircraft to take off at next month's Paris Air Show, possibly next 15th June. The A350 XWB will be the first Airbus aircraft with both...

End of The Croft

Last weekend, my friends and I went for the very first time to that red bar in Stokes Croft. Pure Rock & Roll night. Surrounded by pin-ups and rockabilies, we danced until all our limited twist moves were over. It was a very good and warm atmosphere, and we had a lot of fun. However, I couldn't foresee what I was about to read in the news today... After 11 years of being the city's most popular gig venues, The Croft (BS1 3RW) will be...

Meat | Music | Mayhem

Although BBC does not forecast good weather for this coming weekend, it won't be short of plans. Apparently, the "original and true celebration of barbacue culture" arrives to Bristol. Grillstock Festival combines a two-day low & slow barbacue competition with international music artists, a barbacue academy, awesome festival craft beer bars, live entertainment, chilli-eating and hot-wing competitions, plus a vibrant mix of traders and exhibitors.  Grillstock...

Flower Power

Leopard print is back. So are long mustaches, plaits and flowers in the head, extravagant second hand clothes, outrageous furry jackets, varied types of hats... At least, in Picton Street last weekend. Picton Street hosted last 4th May a very colourful all-day-long party called Mayfest. The road was closed to the traffic and it was already crowded by the time we arrived there around midday. The party did not finish until 9 in the evening. Beautiful...

Run Bristol, run!

Around 15,000 runners invaded Bristol City Centre on Sunday for the Bristol 10K. At 9.00am, most of the them were ready at the start line on Anchor Road while their families, friends and work colleagues took their places at the strategic points where runners would need to be cheered up. The course had the start and finish point in Anchor Road, passing under the Suspension Bridge twice. It made a 10K loop to the city cetre crossing the river...

Who wants my vote?

For the last weeks, our mailboxes have been bombarded with loads of leaflets like these. Tomorrow, 2nd May 2013, we have local elections in Bristol. It is said that voting is habit-forming: once young people learn how the voting process works, they are more likely to do so when they are older. However, do young people believe their voices matter and therefore, vote in local elections? According to a research, although there is no data...