Back to Barcelona — 2 fast, but not 2 furious (yet)

I moved back to Barcelona two weeks ago after being away all the summer. Here’s what I think about my new flat. I think I never gave much detail about last year’s flat. It was behind El Molino, next to the Apolo club, twenty minutes walking from the centre. It was quite big; it had …

Be careful, the pregnancy virus has been unleashed

Years go by, we live our lives, some of my friends already have a good enough job and some are finishing their studies. We keep going out at night, going on trips and feeling forever young. And then someone has a child. A good friend of mine had a baby one month ago. I haven’t …

A long-expected pleasure strikes back

When you become independent, learn to make wonderful toasted sandwiches and post it on your blog; there’s no way you can avoid having friends at home for a supper sooner or later. My lab mates wanted to see my flat since I wrote I was moving in my Catalan post in September and they asked for …

They killed Mufasa

About the passing of time, the dying legends of your youth and the generational change. This week I saw a Disneyland Paris advertisement in a newspaper. The famous Disney castle was its background as expected, but there was something weird about the smiling characters at the front. Maybe this is not the way to say …

Aging up in a dignified way

You may think you’re atemporal. And when I say “you” I mean “I”. I realized I do as my father does. When I talk about someone ten years older or five years younger than me, I call them boys; over this age they are men and under it they are kids. Well, my father’s lower …