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Top 5 Cafés

Originally posted on LetsBiteBcn:
Lo prometido es deuda, así que hoy os vamos a presentar 5 de los nuestros lugares favoritos para tomar un café en Barcelona… El “momento café” es todo un ritual para algunos, así que para elaborar este pequeño Top Five nos hemos fijado algo más que sólo el café. Siguiendo el…

So much to see, so little time!

Can’t believe it’s been two weeks already since my last post on here. Yikes, August is flying by! Here’s the latest… Las festes majores de Gracía 2014 (Gracía festival) officially started by on Friday, August 15th and lasted for the following week. Annually throughout August and September many neighborhoods in Barcelona have weeklong festivals; Gracía’sContinue reading “So much to see, so little time!”

“….what a slut time is…

she screws everybody.” “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.” – both quotes by John Green (from The Fault in Our Stars”)

I Woke Up Like This.

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

March Madness

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” – Cynthia Occelli

Boy Meets Girl

I cannot believe we are almost in March of 2014 already! Life in Barcelona is going well, better than well; I cannot complain.

22 / 23

It’s been a while since I’ve updated the ole blog—a lot has happened over the last month! Getting a stomach virus marked mid-late January. The week started off well as we went to Cantina Machito with Sara on Sunday night. There Sara and I both ordered the white fish tostadas with avocado, which proved toContinue reading “22 / 23”

Kings & Beans

I am going to attempt to be better at posting something at least weekly on here; I know I have gotten a bit slack with my frequency lately. So a week ago today (Jan 5th) I went to Poble Nou for La Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos, aka the 3 Kings Day parade. I forgetContinue reading “Kings & Beans”

New Year, New Me… Or Something Like That

Welcome to 2014, blog fam! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season filled with friends and family and all of your favorite things. I decided to leave the Tumblr world and make the switch to WordPress as it affords free users with more statistics in terms of reader demographics, page views, shares, etc. IContinue reading “New Year, New Me… Or Something Like That”

Wrapping up 2013…

As 2013 is quickly coming to a close, here is what we’ve been up to as of late… The second week of December was more or less another normal workweek in terms of fulfilling personal assistant duties, English lessons, intercambio, and babysitting. It is nice to find a routine even with a super polyvalent jobContinue reading “Wrapping up 2013…”