Category: Catalonia/Spain
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The way we are
[This article was first published in the 10th Anniversary edition of Catalonia Today, June 2014.] I was a reader of Catalonia Today before I was a writer for Catalonia Today. My first memory of it (at that time published as a weekly newspaper) was being impressed by (now Editor) Marcela Topor’s wonderful interview with…
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Portrait of an Asturian miner
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, December 2016.] The coal miner’s wife wakes him and he coughs. He shuffles to the small bathroom sink and spits black liquid, washing it away with with the brown tap water. Last night he slept badly, suffering from stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting again.…
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On trust and the grape
(This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, September 2016.) People trust each other where I live. I’m not talking about the kind of confidence where no one needs to lock their doors. I mean that where I live you don’t see that look of suspicion in the eyes of a stranger that…
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Slow life in Catalonia
(An edited version of the text above was first published in Catalonia Today magazine in February, 2013.) Time. It is the one thing that many of us feel like we don’t have enough of. Generally, we move through our lives at a rapid pace with mobile phones permanently on and our attention fixed…
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Education in Catalonia
[A version of this article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine in Sept. 2013.] This month thousands of parents across Catalonia will be almost cheering with relief, but most teachers will be feeling a mixture of dread and anticipation. The long summer break is now over and a new school year is…
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What is “the crisis?”
(Photo: Javier) [A version of the above text was first published…
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The day that keeps giving
[Photo: Jasar – Granollers] A man slices a dragon’s head off (saving a princess) and he then gives her a rose that is made from the dragon’s blood. The End? No, just the beginning really. The human desire for legends of this sort is legendary but there is a lot more to every…
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The science of successs in Barcelona
[This short article was first published in the new Monocle Guide to Barcelona.] Reimund Fickert, project director at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), points to a plethora of businesses and projects that make Barcelona a European hotspot for biotechnology. “Almost 50 new firms have set up here in the past decade and we now…
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The belief business in Barcelona
First published in Barcelona Metropolitan magazine 17/06/08 [PDF version: userfiles/file/Cults In Barcelona.pdf] [Photo: Barcelona Metropolitan archives]
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Barcelona teens addiction to mobile phones
[First published in Catalonia Today on 20 November 2008] PDF version:userfiles/file/MobilePhoneAddictionInBarcelona.pdf Barcelona psychologist, Vega González Bueso
Brett Hetherington 