BARCELONA BREWS pursuit of the coffee lifestyle

BARCELONA BREWS

pursuit of the coffee lifestyle

It’s been two weeks now since finally arriving back home in Barcelona (don’t laugh). It feels like home – that’s why ever since my first two-week visit to the city three years ago, I told myself I wouldn’t return until I could live here, and this time it’s for the long term.

COFFEE PRELUDE

I’d like to call it an extension of last year’s move, but with more focus and more groundwork. Most people wouldn’t consider three months a “move”, but from October to December of 2015, I certainly tried to swing it. “Enjoy your trip. Have a nice vacation in Spain. So, why are you going Barcelona, again?” were among the rhetorics leading up to my first departure, and I totally get it.

Such a short period of time doesn’t lend its way to planting roots, making a home, establishing a career, or whatever else you might associate with moving somewhere, but

I didn’t find the nomad life, the nomad life found me

It’s a lifestyle I’ve become accustomed to over the last few years while being in and out of studies and internships, and any period of time much longer than a few months only seems to make me restless… except here.

I was also restricted by a three-month tourist visa, and with the need to finish my urban planning degree in Canada by March of 2016, a ‘short term’ arrangement was my compromise.

That being said, if I could pick one thing that I took out of my time here, around Spanish classes, bike trips, photo shoots, and sangria, it was discovering that I wanted to be a lot more involved in the coffee industry, on both the brewing/serving and communication sides, and on both a local and global scale.

COFFEE SEGUE

In my last article, I left us off in Osaka, Japan. Clearly that wasn’t the last place I’ve been before this point, but with a number of imminent key projects coming up in the next few weeks, I figured a quick segue was in order, and the rest of my coffee journeys will have to wait [yet a little while longer].

And so here I find myself again, nine months later (yes, long enough to grow a baby; no, I didn’t do that). Now spending my time rediscovering and reconnecting with the booming coffee scene of Barcelona and the passionate individuals behind it, while scouring for apartments, planning out photoshoots, and continuing to train on two wheels for my next big adventure – as if this one wasn’t enough.

More on that in the next post.