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I’m just about settled in: I have my room in a cool apartment in the middle of the city. I’ve been in Barcelona just over a week, but have been ‘alive’ for only a couple of days… Speaking Spanish is a daily challenge, and I have middling days, and really bad days! Yesterday I managed a sentence or two… I think I will do some study today. I have the radio on in the background (but it could be in Catalan? I’m not really listening. Current track is English).

Things I’ve come to accept today: fresh milk (with an expiry date close to now, my current carton expires in July) is fairly scarce, at least in the myriad supermercados I have been to. This translates into an interesting tasting flat white. But the food is phenomenal! I’m loving the replacement of butter with rubbed-on tomato and (sometimes) olive oil. This wonderful (Catalan) change makes the ham and cheese sandwich a thing to look forward too. I’m not being fair. The ham and cheese is out of this world too. Even the supermarket stuff. I filled a whole Country Road canvas tote with groceries for only €16. Despite not knowing what to choose, I managed to have an awesome breaky! Mmmmm.

Mi casa for the time being is located in the middle of  the Eixample (extension), which is in the middle of everything…