Beauty and the Beach
Without seeming to put any effort into it whatsoever, Barcelona is a city of babes. I mean, the people here are basically beautiful....
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¡¡¡Hawd yer wheesht!!!
So I am back in Barcelona after a week in Scotland, holding hands with the home country (here’s a gratuitous picture of a...
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Somewhat staggeringly, I have managed to live in Barcelona for precisely one year now without writing about the growing sense of...
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If you know me, you’ll know it’s not often I quote All Saints. But if I was to say: “Sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city...
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Just a quick note to say that Rob over at Homage to BCN very kindly invited me to write a post for his series ‘BCN days’,...
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A government travel guide published in Canada recently sparked fierce debate across the blogosphere. The guide advised single women...
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Poblet Monastery in Catalonia – withdrawing from the world
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What the hell's a guiri in a rowboat?
Guiri is one of those words, like feminist or peely-wally, that I want to reclaim. Locals use it to refer to tourists - you know the ones - who stick out a million miles. No matter how long I live in Barcelona, that's always going to be me. (P.S. While Barça locally refers to the football team, Brits use Barca as shorthand for the whole city.) 
