BARCELONA

[Benny Bunter]

Ive gotta get pissed to get on its wavelength, its too late to venture outside of the mall so I have to embrace its energy

Lol you're in a "mall"!!!

 

[Benny Bunter]

In the entire barrio where I live in Sevilla there's only one other English speaking guy I know of, an ex military American dude called Greg. They love me here but I'm an exception.

Greg's a nice guy but seems very browbeaten by his Spanish wife and mother in law, I feel a bit sorry for him.

 

[yyaldrin]

what is your spanish nickname they gave you?

 

[luka]

el gringo

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's usually just the generic 'guiri'

 

[luka]

extraño pálido

 

[luka]

inglés malvado

 

[Benny Bunter]

"Guiri (pronounced [ˈɡiɾi]) is a colloquial Spanish word often used in Spain to refer to uncouth foreign tourists, usually those with Northern European looks. However, it can also be applied to people from other foreign countries."

But they say it with a friendly sparkle in their eye when the call me it though

 

[Benny Bunter]

I've got a pale skinned 9 nine year old son with big brown Spanish eyes

 

[line b]

I've got a pale skinned 9 nine year old son with big brown Spanish eyes

Hes gonna grow up to be a girl m8 yr fucked

 

[shakahislop]

my impression is that its a city where the main attraction was the vibes and now the vibes are gone. the tourist land bit of barcelona is notably uninspiring i think. the gothic quarter and all of that. the ramblas feels like it might have been something once, but it's been converted to something else now that it's mostly for tourists. i really enjoyed the first time i was there though, i was like 21 and hadn't been hardly anywhere in southern europe, and at that point it really ticked those romantic boxes. if it was me i'd get on a train and go somewhere else in spain or france. or find whatever bits of the city are outside of the tourist bits. you could probably get up into the pyranees easily enough, that's the best bit of spain i've been to, all these little deserted bleak stone towns

 

[Benny Bunter]

Yeah get the fuck out of there and go to the Pyrenees, they look amazing

 

[line b]

@louxqq

 

[luka]

its like half 11 at night hows he guna go up the pyranees lol

 

[Benny Bunter]

Barcelona is literally the last place in Spain I'd go to if I was a *spits* tourist

 

[Benny Bunter]

its like half 11 at night hows he guna go up the pyranees lol

He could go there tomorrow?

 

[luka]

hes leaving tomorrow. he wants to get back to england.

 

[luka]

same thing happened to me when i went to spain, took one look at it and said, fuck that im going home.

 

[shakahislop]

really exceptional european country coz its mostly this massive arid empty mass with all the people clustered by the water. there's not another country like that on the continent. the others have more hospitable terrain. all these little old networks of towns and villages.

 

[Benny Bunter]

same thing happened to me when i went to spain, took one look at it and said, fuck that im going home.

That's cos you went to Barcelona like all the other idiots