Category Archives: Society
Two years in – how Barcelona has changed me
A colleague of mine took the day off work recently. This wouldn’t have been noteworthy in itself, except that it was a random Wednesday, we were in the middle of a big project, and he was uncharacteristically cagey about the … Continue reading
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Scunnered in Barcelona
Or, how a peace-loving vegetarian was turned into a screaming banshee googling ‘shooting ranges in Barcelona’. This wasn’t the post I was expecting to write. What I actually wanted to talk about were the best apps for living in Barcelona. … Continue reading
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Barcelona and the two faces of January
January in Barcelona has the ability to sidle its way innocuously into your life. There’s none of the wailing and gnashing of teeth that accompanies the new year’s investiture in Scotland, largely thanks to the absence of egregious cold that … Continue reading
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The Big Flat Flit
‘To flit’ in Scotland means to move house. I like the winsomeness of the word. Its sound, its capriciousness, its way of conveying so many things at once. It invokes a butterfly in full flight mode, flaking out in transit, … Continue reading
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