Cannabis in Barcelona – weed clubs and getting high in a “legal grey area”

Just down the street from my flat, there’s a brown door. It’s between a Pakistani barber shop and a bike rental place. The door has a big black

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Everything in Barcelona is Fake – free tour of Bogus Barna

For many, travel is a search for authenticity. Perhaps you spend most of your year working and living in a land of highways and strip malls, where much

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Barcelona’s constant state of unrest – everybody strikes!

The other day I was at a bar. When I went to pay, the owner announced she’d raised the price of beer by 10 cents. “My electric bill

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Another Barcelona Fire that the Political Class Doesn’t Care About

Hey y’all. I don’t have any huge idea for an article today. But do you remember last year when several immigrants burned alive inside their flat in Barceloneta?

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Walking Barcelona – Avenida Diagonal and Besòs neighborhood

Time for a walk. It’s wet today. Not the best day to go to the country. So let’s see some new parts of the city. The streets are

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Barcelona’s New Normal – August 2021 Edition

Things are mostly back to normal here in Barcelona. After a few weeks when it seemed like everyone we knew had the Delta variant, or had been in

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Riots and Free Speech and Pablo Hasél, oh my!

Interesting week here in Barcelona. As you might have heard, we’ve now had 4 nights of riots. Four nights of burning barricades, confrontations with police, an acute lack

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Barcelona without Tourists. Spoiler alert: it sucks donkey balls

The other day I was walking down the Rambla. I know, I know. The Rambla sucks. It’s so full of tourists. The pickpockets. The crowds. Etc. Except now

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A Day in the Life: “Social Distancing in Barcelona” Edition

You know that feeling? The feeling you might have in the ten or so seconds when you first wake up in the morning… And you know there’s something

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Life on Lockdown: Week 1 of the Barcelona Quarantine

The Saturday before the lockdown, Chinatown was already shuttered. Morena and I were just looking for some noodles, but the restaurant we wanted to go to was closed

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