KiwiAngela - Angela-Marie Desmarais

Years later, after going 'full circle' with a trip back to Auckland New Zealand. (and an attempt to 'lighten my load' resulting in stupidly leaving all my photo discs in NZ) I am back in Spain and slowly updating the latest shennanigans so read on for a glimpse at the life of Ang on the road (or the couch so to speak) but please note that entries before April 2006 are a mix of regurgitated emails and my not-so-hot memory. Not all have been published yet so bear with me and to check out the rest of the biz at http://couchsurfing.com/kiwiangela

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By KiwiAngela
April 18th 2007

30 isnÂ´t so bad after all Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Mataró

web frisbee

IÂ´ve been bad. Out of touch. Working alot, the usual excuses. I work 7 days a week and dont have alot of time online anymore, any time i do have is spent feeding my Â´WiiÂ´ habit and getting a few hours sleep (I just canÂ´t resist another 9 holes!) So as most of you know already, despite much resistance on my part, the big 30 eventually rolled around and i Â´celebratedÂ´ with a big kid picnic on the beach next to our place in mataro. After a shocking week of rain, the sun surfaced long enough for us to make [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
September 22nd 2006

Champagne, Cake and Clubbing Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Mataró

The Cake

It was Birthday time for Becks so I got busy in the kitchen and baked a chocolate cake which had one cup of coffee listed in the ingredients. Oh yeah, now we're talking. I used straight espresso of course and literally topped it all off with melted white chocolate and LOLLIES! She's damn lucky I didn't gobble it all up there and then... Come 10 o'clock we all met down at the train station on the coast and made our way to the beach, a storm was threatening but a bit of water wasn't gonna set us back. Becks arrived shortly [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
August 9th 2006

Keep your eye on the Jelly - Life in Mataró Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Mataró

Sushi and PhotoFace

¡Hola Chicos! It´s been just over 2 months since I arrived here in Spain and with so much happening in such a short time that I feel like I´ve been here forever. Last time I wrote was Nicks farewell. I was here for just a few days and wasn´t exactly feeling ´in the zone´. I thought I´d made the wrong decision moving to Barcelona BUT then along came Mataró. 35mins north of BCN by train, population 100,000, I stepped off the train, looked out to the Mediteranean Sea and said ´honey I´m home!´ I´ll skip the bits in between for now [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
July 11th 2006

My new pole dancing career. Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Pole dancing

DAY ONE The train pulled into Barcelona Sants and i once more defyed the odds of gravity by carrying my two packs and extra bags out of the station to meet benny. It had been a long day. My planned quiet farewell after the disapointing result in the football the night before had turned into quite the opposite and after 2 hours slumber on James and Stephs couch I staggered to Bordeaux St Jean for the grand exit. Whilst seeping the odour of hops out of my pores and looking rather unsavoury I managed to aquire a whole 1 hour sleep [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
June 12th 2006

The last daze with the boys Europe » France » Aquitaine » Biscarosse

Getting ready for a night out in the big city

Face painting, Sculpting, Sketching and Chilling by the beach. A chapter closes. [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
June 6th 2006

And the prize for disorganisation goes to....... Italy! Europe » Italy » Liguria

Sing along now....

Time was ticking by and it was about time I went to Italy to validate my Visa. I was booked on the night train Bordeaux-Nice but I organised an earlier departure so as to have a few hours hanging out with Perrine in Toulouse. We ate bread and cheese just to fit into the french stereotype and balanced out the national iconism by browsing through a little classic kiwi rock by none other than Dragon and Hello Sailor to name a few (courtesy of Matt da Muss). Who would have thought aye. The usual shennanigans and goofing around of us two [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
May 28th 2006

Frisbee and Ferrets Europe » France » Aquitaine » Le Porge

Infront of Quinconce

I finished up work on Saturday and had planned to settle down with my book and take it easy but I got a call from Fred saying that I'd left my hoody at his place so i jumped on a bus and headed in to meet him and Karin for coffee. It was one of those typical Bordeaux days - thunderstorms all night, torrential downpour all morning and as i walked towards the cafe the sun decided to get into the game and penetrate enough damn heat to get me burnt on the short walk to my caffeine fix... Just like [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
April 30th 2006

The Shellster hits Bordeaux! Europe » France » Aquitaine » Bordeaux

Contemplation

After the full on week+ of partying with so many good friends in Bordeaux I was in an uber state of aftermath saddness. But ooooh I had Shell to look forward to! I met the Shellster off the airport bus on a friday morning inbetween my shifts at work and we head straight home so that i could work and she could sleep. Turns out that Shelleys 'couple' of drinks after work the evening before ended up with her getting 2 hours sleep before her 2am departure from the flat in Hackney, London.... and then realising she's left the present in [View Full Entry]

Andy, Maddy, Me and the trusty Baileys Microphone

By KiwiAngela
March 31st 2006

Bartop Aerobics and other Indoor Sports Europe » France » Aquitaine » Bordeaux

Ang and Alexis

This one is just for the pics. Flashdance lives! To elaborate though - My good friends Christophe, Alexis and Noelie go to a Gym in Bordeaux. said Gym had a Party in a club down on the Quays called Polux. I managed to score an invite. First we met at Noelies apartment for some dinner and drinks which quickly turned into quite the little party. On our way to Polux we seemed to recruit a couple of irish lads, surprise surprise. The party was fantastic, the gym instructors were conducting Aerobics routines from the bar top to which all of the [View Full Entry]

By KiwiAngela
December 11th 2005

Magical Andorra Europe » Andorra

The First Time

On a chilly Saturday afternoon I walked through a door which sported my lucky number 7 and found myself in an unprecedented situation.... I'll take it back a bit, My friend sebastian had decided to drive down to Andorra to purchase cheap fags and booze (as you do) so I decided to join him for the roadtrip. I invited another couchsurfer Steve to come up and join us and once him and his friend Josh confirmed their buses up I was all ready to go... except in the meantime Sebastian found himself a girlfriend in Toulouse and couldn't make the trip.... [View Full Entry]

Rex Jones, Angflang and Squidman aka The Wildboar Fuckers before raiding the House of 40 Cats (26 remain)

The new Man in my life 'Mr Christian Name'

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