Life in Barcelona

Catalan is different. This has nowhere become so clear as during my journey to Barcelona the other day. Not only that Barcelona is completely full of Hippies, multicoloured transverse philosophers and immigrants, which contribute to the Ambience of the city as a melting pot, like in other cities as New York or Berlin for example.

For the Catalan people, it was always important that Flamenco or bull-ring have played a subordinated role here, exactly as other typical Spanish goods like Tortilla or Jamón Serrano have. They had success with their protest against the central state, and there is an enormous gastronomic variety and many different architecture and design currents.

The Catalan people were and still are very proud of this “being different”, which they demonstrate partly almost desperately, so that in the rest of the country, they are considered to be arrogant. So far, I have been convinced that this would do them injustice. I’m going to find that out. Because I will spend the next months here in Barcelona…

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