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No, I can fend it off no longer. This week’s guest article for Metropolitan finally sees me broaching the thorny issue of...
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I’m going to be writing a series of guest blogging posts over at Metropolitan this month, on sundry stuff. Here’s an...
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I recently celebrated the 6-month mark of being in Barcelona. In grim pathetic fallacy fashion, it bounced with rain, that day. I...
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Manichean moments Dichotomies have been preoccupying me this week. Maybe it’s the back and forth of recent days – from Spain to...
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Or, open-mouthed ogling and how to not/deal with it. Taking the piss A couple of years ago a feminist collective in Barcelona mounted...
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For a language boasting over half a million words and replete with the precisest of terms, English is woefully lacking when it comes...
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Dog days in Barcelona
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Dog days in Barcelona
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A new view of Barcelona – from the Fabra Observatory
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Tapeando in Poble Sec
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Coasting the Costa Brava
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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.) 
