For four years, Brit Abroad Natasha Young harboured in the Catalan capital teaching English to burly dockers and bored businessmen.
After a year in the shadow of the Andes in Santiago de Chile, she's now back in Barcelona working for the English-language magazine, Metropolitan and blogging her little heart out.
She could murder a good curry and rather misses the rain in England.
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