LOLLAPALOOZA!!

The past weekend was just…. No words to describe it!!
lollapalooza in grant park Chicago!! It was awesome!! The truth is that there were many bands that I didn’t know about, but the big ones for me like Manu Chao and Red Hot Chili Peppers were just GREAT.
On Saturday, we started the party kinda early, drinking Absolut as if it was water,

here we can see Helen on State Av, mixing our drinks without any kind of shame while Leila tells her that she could go to jail for doing this in the U.S. but Helen didn't give a shit, she is German… so she is used to drinking in the streets as well! After the first bottle and being VERY happy and sociable already, we got in to the festival for FREE!! First we asked in the main entrance how to get in for less money, but it didn’t work, so I asked a girl on the fens if she could let us in and she just opened that gate and the rest was PARTY!!

We had a great time, the concert was incredibly good, I was amazed by the excellent quality of the sound, because it was happening in an outdoor and very big space. Manu Chao, with all his energy and singing all the old stuff, made me jump as if I was still 15, when I first heard Mano Negra and loved them since.

We met a lot of people, everyone was so friendly and the energy was high.

On Sunday, kind of hangover and with not so much energy, we got to grant park and with the same strategy and after finding the same girl, this time not 4, but 5 people got in through the fens. It didn’t take long, until we were again jumping and singing like crazy with one of the most awesome bands I’ve ever seen in concert.


The closure of the festival with the Chili peppers was more than I was expecting, not only did they play a lot of the good stuff, but in concert, one can really appreciate the excellent musicians that they are. At the end of the concert, walking the streets of Chicago with other 70.000 people as happy and exited as I was, was a great experience as well.

Finally and as a “good bye” dinner for Helen, who returned to Berlin on Monday, we went for a tapas dinner to Café Iberico, a VERY Spanish joint, so Spanish that one can smoke all over the place without any problem, just like in any place in Spain. The food was delicious and the most important, it really tasted Spanish, it wasn’t an Americanized kind of stuff. I highly recommend the restaurant and specially the queso de cabra.