Tweet Last night I finally met Dan, one of the original members of my StomperNet SIMPLE team who also lives in Barcelona. We should have met before, but I was hyper busy before the summer and cancelled a couple of times, so was glad to finally meet at Belly for the monthly Barcelona entrepeneur’s group [...]

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Tweet One thing I always make sure I do when I visit the UK is go out for a curry. It’s simply the best food ever invented and I could eat it at least 5 days of the week. Leftovers are always great for breakfast and the aroma of the spices cooking is unbeatable. So [...]

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Tweet It takes about 20 minutes to get to the beach at Castelldefels from home, so Miriam had the great idea to take some time out while the weather is good and head for the beach during the week. Sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it? Unfortunately the weather this week wasn’t up to it. [...]

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Tweet Well I was given a 90 cm satellite dish, LNB, 25 metres of coax cable, a Sky digibox and all the bits and pieces required to hold it all together. Does it work? Of course it does! Tweet

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Tweet It seemed like a close call, but in fact it wasn’t at all. However many goals Barcelona scored against Nastic on Sunday night it was really all down to how Mallorca stood up to Real Madrid. Although Mallorca were initially in the lead we only needed to hope for a draw. That’s where Madrid [...]

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Tweet Being an Englishman abroad is never more difficult than when it comes to a curry, as although it is possible to find Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Barcelona they don’t really cater too well for my tastes – usually not enough heat. Last night we went to Cardomon with a couple of friends, somewhere [...]

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Tweet Just back from Travis at the Movistar “tent” at the Forum. The concert was great, good band and the singer seems a good bloke.  The venue is terrible though, so lucky that it’s the last concert before they remove the tentpole and pull it all down. Apart from the layout – no good at [...]

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Tweet Question; what happens if you take a bunch of half-wits and surround them with senseless bureaucracy? The answer appears to be that they create the Spanish postal service which I try to have as little contact as possible as lost post and delays of a month or more are so common it’s just not [...]

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Tweet It’s not until you try and use a website that its sheer user-unfriendlyness can come to light. One of the big examples is the website of RENFE, the Spanish railway company, which although it looks good and is translated into a handful of languages, completely fails as a useful tool. My girlfriend and I [...]

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Tweet Last night saw the first round of the Barcelona derby with Espanyol playing host to FC Barcelona at their home stadium on Montjuic. In fact the I can see the stadium from the front terrace and if I stretch a bit the other way I can also see Camp Nou - or as most Anglophones insist, the Nou [...]

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