Books · Out now
Diary of an (un) Successful Gangster.
It’s so difficult to be a gangster. Especially an unsuccessful one. Paperback and hardcover. Book two is coming.
Unsuccessful gangster. Successful everything else.
A book, a family treasure hunt, green work, small apps and honest market notes. All built from the Costa Blanca.
Valentas Bartkevicius
Book one. Out now.
Pilar de la Horadada · Costa Blanca
ScrollWelcome · Bienvenido
Welcome to Impressive Life.
A good life, honestly. Sun included. Brochure not.
Impressive Life is what Valentas Bartkevicius builds in Spain, and the way he tries to live while building it. He grew up in Soviet Lithuania, was running a crew at 19, tiled and managed building sites in London, and has lived in Spain since 2019, based in Pilar de la Horadada on the Costa Blanca.
The idea is simple and slightly unfashionable. Build useful things slowly. Say plainly what is ready and what isn’t. Read more than you scroll. Get the family off the sunbed now and then. And take the evenings seriously, because Spain does.
He wrote a book about how most of it went wrong. Impressive Life is where the next part gets built: slowly, from this coast, with nothing on this site dressed up as bigger than it is.
Spain is very good at evenings. We’re still working on the mornings.
Impressive Life es lo que Valentas construye en España y la forma en que intenta vivir mientras lo construye. Lituania soviética, una cuadrilla a los 19, obras en Londres, España desde 2019. Hacer cosas útiles despacio, decir claro qué está listo y qué no, y tomarse en serio las tardes.
Un camino largo · The road
A longer road than
the map shows.
Lithuania, London, Spain. No satnav would have suggested it.
What lives here · Lo que hay aquí
Nine doors.
Mind the last one.
Each is a separate piece of work with its own page and its own contact. Some are open. The ones that aren’t say so on the door.
Secret · Kickstarter soon
The hunt is already on.
One family treasure-hunt book. Real clues. Real hidden figurines. All over Spain.
Second Life · Solar & Wind · Open now
Retired. Not dead.
Used solar panels collected free. Wind turbines decommissioned turnkey in Spain and France.
Grow House · A direction
Lettuce. The legal kind.
An indoor warehouse with racks stacked to the ceiling, greens under lights, very little water. A direction, not a service yet.
Beauty Salon
An hour, looked after.
Eyelash extensions, permanent make-up, nails and hairdressing. Five treatment cabins, also to rent by the day or month.
Safehouse · Early MVP
Read once. Then gone.
A private messenger for Android. No phone number, no account. Not on Google Play yet.
Markets · Education only
Test first. Believe later.
Strategies tested on paper, against real fees, before anything is called a plan. Not advice.
Watch · Channel coming soon
Good life. Filmed as it is.
Spain, the builds, the hunt, the second-life jobs and the grow house, without the brochure. The first film is already up.
Homes · Later
The closed door.
Homes in Spain, one day. Not yet: no listings, no prices, no tour. Principles first.
Book 01 · Mr Valentas Bartkevicius
It’s so difficult to be a gangster.
Especially an unsuccessful one. A crime memoir where nothing goes to plan. Including the crime.
Kindle edition coming back soon.
La vida está en la calle · Life happens outside
La vida está
en la calle.
Life happens outside.
Dinner at ten. Nobody’s in a hurry. Some of us are still adjusting.
Write · Escríbenos
A quiet note is enough.
For anything on this site. Each door has its own direct contact, so the note lands with the right desk. It’s the same desk, but still.
Para cualquier cosa de esta web. Cada proyecto tiene su propio contacto.