Barcelona – here I come

22.11.2007 19:41 Well, it’s gonna be like this for a little while now. I blog when I have time offline, and then I post it in lumps whenever I get a chance. So you see, no use in avoiding the blog…there might be something there! Life in Barcelona is, hmmm, different. In many ways actually. First of all I haven’t spent much time abroad since I moved to Zürich more than 5 years ago, just a week here and there. So all my foreign experience had gotten a bit rusty. When I arrived here on Tuesday afternoon I went straight to the agency which held the key for my apartment (the one you saw pics of earlier). Only at three in the afternoon they were out. There was a sign on the door I couldn’t quite interpret, but I guess it said something like “gone for lunch, customers not welcome for the moment” or something like that. In Australia it would have said “gone walkabout”. But I’m not a difficult person, so I sat down at on outdoor (!) café and had a cerveza. Some words you never forget :) Well, half an hour later they came back, all three of them. One of them spoke a little English. Hurray! So we walked to my flat, I inspected it and that was that. It is very spartan but I like it. Two bedrooms (questionable beds though but I’ve been so exhausted since coming here, I slept like a log anyway), bathroom (obviously), kitchen and a living room. The living room is a bit funny though with balcony doors which are windows floor-to-ceiling opening up to a terrace. When I sit on the sofa it feels like I sit on display since there are many tall buildings around. I’m on the 9th floor. If I lean stand at the right angle I can actually see the ocean! I wonder how life in Zürich is?