Devils and dragons and freaks ...

Oct 3, 2011 by

Fire has never fazed me. In fact, I’ve long harboured suspicions of deep-down pyro tendencies and have never entirely trusted myself...

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So you think you speak Spanish...

Sep 11, 2011 by

Since the whole point of me moving out to Barcelona was to, quote, “get fluent in Spanish”, I thought it was about time I penned an...

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Double acts & double stan...

Aug 28, 2011 by

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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I am not your señorita

Jul 31, 2011 by

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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The salsa class

Jul 17, 2011 by

It’s summer in the city. It’s sunny. It’s seriously humid. And the fact that I’m in Cataluña rather than Cuba is apparently...

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¡Que aproveche!

Jul 9, 2011 by

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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