day 8

Ok, I know what you're thinking: iacopo (as usual) had a go at writing a blog but lazy as he is it just lasted a couple of days and that's it. You are wrong. I have a perfectly good excuse not to have updated the blog in the last few days. Well... I just went to the beach! This is one of the selling point of Barcelona -at least for me. It takes the same amount of time to go from Queens Park to Waterloo (on the bakerloo line) than going from Barcelona to Sitges. Sitges is a seaside village/small town where at the beginning of the last century the rich people from Barcelona used to spend the summer. This means that it is not the horrible seaside resort many people think of when you mention the Spanish coast and it's literally 20 minutes from the centre of Barcelona. The other cool thing about sitges is that it is a gay hotspot. Now as many of you know (I hope) I am not gay, so why am I getting all excited about a gay resort? Well, the thing I find very unique about Sitges is the tolerance you can see. It's the only place I know where you see the typical Spanish families (kids, parents, grandparents, dogs, etc) walking along side with 2 tall Germans wearing leather underwear, cowboy boots, no t-shirts and pierced nipples! Did I see anybody go "how disgusting! Why do these people come here to spoil my holidays"? No, not at all. A lot of tolerance, a bit of humor and we can all share the same beaches and restaurants -that's the spirit. It was actually quite funny to see the Spanish grannies sitting on the terraces doing a bit of people-watch looking at hardcore gay tourists walking past!

I am now back in barcelona (after a long 20-minute journey in an air-conditioned train) and back to visiting flats and banks. Thank god I found out a bit of Jamaica is coming to barcelona. This will be my first summer without the notting hill carnival and the gladiators are coming to play here tomorrow. I think it'll be a good substitute to my favourite sound system and resident at the notting hill carnival Roots & Culture (http://www.rootsandculture.co.uk/). If you happen to be in london and want to see the carnival, do check out the R&C sound system on lemmington road and westbourne park road. big up to the roots and culture sound system! By the way the also run the University of Dub in brixton every month, which is the best substitute to the notting hill carnival.

Well, guys, I guess I better be going to see some other estate agent... I just love the way they treat teresa like shit for being spanish, a women and most of all for cutting their bullshitting. Me on the other hand they just love me, I'm foreign (so they think I've got more money), I'm a guy and they think I just don't get their bullshit. I just love it. Last time I went with one of those disgusting estate agents (and teresa wasn't there) the guy started telling me how he was going to go to cuba with 7 of his single mates simply to go screw Cuban girls. Now how can I buy a flat from a guy like that? I just wanted to leave... So you can understand my excitement...

I promise I'll be back tomorrow. See you soon.