The smell of Barcelona…

The city struck me as something colorful, something completely alive, so different from the nordic dark cold countries where I come from. The smell was different, with a weird mixture of trash, mold, over ripe fruit, water with too much calcium, hot strong espresso, sweat, garlic and a breeze of salt water… The city was just waking up, the noise was just getting started, construction work at the same place as last year, had they not finished YET? Expectations, a sense of adventures for thousands of young people arriving to the city with that mysterious exciting idea of this city where you find love from every corner of the world and experiences to remember forever. This city that is a meeting point for so many people, for a short while. You meet, you live you love and you move on to different parts of the world. Keeping that experience on Barcelona in the suitcase forever…