Chilling in Carvoeiro

Despite the fact that I'm from Spain, I had never ever been to Portugal -even though Portugal is, in addition, the closest country we have-. But this year it was time to break my own statistics and try something different.
The final destination was a tiny village located in the southern coast, called Carvoeiro. Carvoeiro isn't really a very different place. Tourists come from all around the world to enjoy the sun (and sunbathing) and chill for a few days or even a few weeks. Believe it or not, but due to the relatively short distance to the Spanish border, many nationals come here to enjoy summer too. And indeed, that one was my case.
The hotel where I stayed for approximately a week was on top of an enormous cliff, with access (though not easy) to a very tiny beach with caves included. The views from there weresomewhat exceptional and impressive, that's no doubt!
During my one-week trip I had the opportunity to visit one of the most wonderful places I've ever seen - the Cape Sao Vicente, the most southwestern point in Europe- and some of the most amazing old villages in the Iberian Pen. But as I think I'm talking too much, it's better to let you see the pictures with your own eyes... so here you are an appetizer! :)

An almond cake, one of my favourite Portuguese delicatessen.

 

The Atlantic ocean seen from the hotel.

Heal

Unlike other ESC winners, Loreen has reached the top literally. Nowadays, the Swedish singing star is a very questionless part of the international music stardom, and fortunately her success hasn't been reduced only to her very first hit 'Euphoria'. After winning the European competition, it followed the releasing of her first studio album, 'Heal', which includes a song under the same title, 'Heal', whose music video we can now enjoy. 
With an awesome staging and nice dressing, Loreen stars her Heal's music video surrounded by her worldwide-known mystery sphere, sending a hope message to people, and stating once more that love is a strength able to overcome everything. So you know, we gotta give something to love! :)

Stardust

Following the releasing of her new single, I'm about to publish here her single 'Stardust'. This complete piece of art was released in September. However, I posted it to Tumblr but not here, so I decided to make a little tribute to Lena by posting this brilliant song right here.
The music video of this song, 'Stardust', shows a really confortable Lena wearing different vaporous dresses, and dancing and walking through the desert in an amazing staging. As always, Lena features a group of professional dancers features the German artist in this excellent music video, which was released in September 2012 -just when I was in the USA on exchange-. Then, hope you like it as much as I did, thanks Lena for so many songs like this one! :)

So no one can catch us,

Nothing can change this

Covered in stardust,

Invincible and...

...Jumping off the edge,

Reaching for the moon

Living every day,

Invincible like oh, oh...

Neon

Once again, the amazing German singer -and winning singer of the 55th Eurovision- releases another incredible and magic music video while performing her brand new song 'Neon', included in her brand new album 'Stardust'.
As in previous music videos from Lena, the theme includes a bunch of female dancers who dance with the German singer rhythmically to the music, in an awesome staging according to the lyrics and the whole meaning of this great song. Featuring the music video, here you are some pics of the amazing production itself, hope you like it as much as I do, and congratulations Lena, your new brand single looks AMAZING! :)

The Melodifestivalen 2013!

Once again, as usual, we had an incredible music show yesterday night. The recently built Friends Arena (until now, Sweden's biggest arena ever) held the 52nd edition of the Swedish Melodifestivalen, one of the best music contests all over Europe. And, of course, we have a brand-new winner, Robin Stjernberg, who won the competition with his brilliant song 'You'. But the show was quite long, so let's have a look and see what happened yesterday night inside that great arena!
To start with the show, a bunch of well-known Swedish artists took the stage. After that, the hosts, Danny Saucedo and Gina, introduced the first performance. It was Ulrik Munther's 'Tell The World I'm Here', who finally got the third position. A good song, and a great singer, made the perfect mixture to have won the competition, but unfortunatelly it wasn't so.

The second contestant taking the brilliant stage was the great David Lindgren, who performed his song 'Skyline' getting the 8th place despite the good performance he did on stage. Anyway, well done David!

One by one, the rest of contestants took the stage, but I'd like to remark specially one of them, called Anton Ewald, who got the third place with his new-brand song 'Begging'. Here you are his impressing performance.





After showing the votes publically, Carola took the stage and performed her song 'Främling'. And, how not, Loreen took the stage to perform once again her worldwide hit 'Euphoria', with the help of a children's choir and using gestures language. Sounds beautifully enough?




And the winner was finally Robin Stjernberg, whose song 'You' -yes, a very short title, nothing sintactically difficult- won the competition gaining lots of votes in fact. To end up with this, here you are his brilliant performance. Enjoy, and remember we'll see each other again in just two months and eight days, ESC is getting so close! :)