Guest blogging posts at Metropolitan
I’m going to be writing a series of guest blogging posts over at Metropolitan this month, on sundry stuff.
Here’s an excerpt from my first article.
Cheers to the new year
“I come from a country that, like it or not, has a reputation for being able to drink any other nationality under the table. Our most famous export is whisky, for crying out loud. And it’s a badge we wear with pride. “Go on then, ya lightweights!” (And that’s just the women.)
Cut to Catalunya, and the pride and prestige in knowing that I’m made of sterner girders begin to look somewhat ridiculous. To be honest, I feel like a lush. Steaming to their abstemious.”
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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.) 
