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Don't Let Drunk People Decide How to Get Home

Don’t Let Drunk People Decide How to Get Home

November 28, 2019
by Alexis Kearney
Spain Yarns, Yarns

It was my first day of a month in Spain. There I was, sitting at the Carmel Bunkers in Barcelona: a viewing point where the…

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El Abuelo's Ashes

El Abuelo’s Ashes

November 15, 2019
by Gravy
Spain Yarns, Yarns

Buenaventura Bravo’s main job during the Spanish Civil War was getting his goats out of the village and into the mountains. This was no top-secret…

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The Tents in the Middle of Madrid

The Tents in the Middle of Madrid

October 3, 2019
by Alexandra Middleton
Spain Yarns, Yarns

I see them on my way to the Prado Museum. Tents — an assembly of bright red tents, maybe 20 or so, pitched in the…

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Going to a Wine Fight as an Alcoholic’s Daughter

Going to a Wine Fight as an Alcoholic’s Daughter

August 25, 2019
by Justine Stella
Spain Yarns, Yarns

Spain’s relaxed nature towards its lifestyle, including alcohol, is terrifying to the sober daughter of an alcoholic. To have a childhood coloured by the not-so-parental…

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Death of a Doorman

Death of a Doorman

August 4, 2019
by Gravy
Spain Yarns, Yarns

My previous portero died unexpectedly. One day he was there – a fat and jovial man, bald, glasses, head pushed a little forward giving way…

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I Still Don't Know Why I Ran With the Bulls

I Still Don’t Know Why I Ran With the Bulls

July 25, 2019
by Carla Deale
Spain Yarns, Yarns

There is nothing noble, nor brave, about running with the bulls. Nothing of the sour smell of drunkenness and strewn-out drunkards in the early Pamplonan morning,…

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Hammered and Hitched in Madrid

Hammered and Hitched in Madrid

April 29, 2019
by Natassja Wynhorst
Spain Yarns, Yarns

Some look back on their wedding and get warm glowing fuzzies in their heart and tear up at the tune of their first dance song….

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Bangin' in Barcelona

Bangin’ in Barcelona

May 4, 2014
by Georgia Hick
Spain Yarns, Yarns

His name was Jack and he was from Sydney: two facts that I only actually found out after a brief conversation with him the following…

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Two Dicks in Barcelona

Two Dicks in Barcelona

March 25, 2014
by Gemma Clarke
Spain Yarns, Yarns

It was my last afternoon in Barcelona, and I was having an absolute mare. Photographic evidence had just surfaced of me making out with a…

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I Deviated My Septum in Ibiza

I Deviated My Septum in Ibiza

May 19, 2013
by The Hobos
Spain Yarns, Yarns

I used to always pride myself on being possibly the only person in the world who hadn’t done cocaine. Originally, this was primarily due to…

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