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Stephen Burgen

@stephenburgen.bsky.social

Serial immigrant. Writer and journalist. Writes about Spain for The Guardian and Observer. Latest work the novel Blind Love http://stephenburgen.com Barcelona, Spain

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Stephen Burgen@stephenburgen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you live in Catalunya from now on to access CatSalut you need to sign up to idCat. Have tried several times without success. Of course it lets you go through the entire process before saying it didn't work out though not why. Does anyone ever test these things?

Stephen Burgen@stephenburgen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Presumably anyone who washes down a plate of cap i pota with wine at 11am is either a pensioner, unemployed or unemployable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stop brunch! How a rustic Catalan meal is taking the fight to bland food and overtourism | Abbas Asaria

As Barcelona groans under a surfeit of generic cafes, a grassroots movement is reviving the traditional ‘fork breakfast’. Anyone for pigs’ trotters, asks food writer Abbas Asaria

theguardian.com

Stephen Burgen@stephenburgen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

First, forced to renew Brit passport. Now they say if the name on my Spanish passport doesn't match - of course it doesn't because in Spain you have to have two surnames - they won't issue Brit passport until I change name on Spanish one which is impossible.