- Do you live where you want to live?
- Yes. It isn't really a neighbourhood, but it is quiet and pretty.
- Would you like to move? Why and where to?
- There are many places in Barcelona where I would live, particularly those neighbourhoods which haven't stopped being villages (Sarrià, Sant Andreu, Gràcia, Sants). I adapt easily, and I like going out and getting to know people, but I am fine where I am, and I don't plan to change. But you never know.
- Do you spend time in your neighbourhood and with your neighbours? Do you have the shops you need nearby (baker's, grocer's, dry cleaner's)?
- The nearest shops are ten minutes walk away. But since I was 18 I have always used a motorbike (always a little one), and this allows me to go to any shop without any problem.
- As well as doing your daily shopping (if you do it) do you have places and services for all your needs?
- I have no problem satisfying all my needs.
- Do you stroll around your own neighbourhood for pleasure or do you go elsewhere?
- Luckily, there are many quiet places next to where I live. I use them a lot.
- Which are your favourite cinemas, theatres and clubs?
- I go to the cinema assiduously. Preferably to those which are closest, Cinesa Diagonal and Renoir. I often go to the theatre as well, but less often than to the cinema, and it is because the play interests me that I go to a certain theatre. Night-clubs also tend to be those near here; I don't often go, but when I do I go to the Luz de Gas or similar.
- And which are your favourite restaurants, bars and cafés?
- I tend to go to many different restaurants, but my favourite is in my neighbourhood: it is a Japanese restaurant called Hanabishi. It is quiet and very good, and the owners are exceptional.
- Is there any public area where you like to go, to sit and chat?
- Nowhere special. But I like to go to the Rambla on my own, for example, to watch the people and think.
- When you have to act as a guide for visitors, where do you take them?
- I have done this a lot. Firstly, there is always the architectural tour: Gaudí and Domènech i Muntaner basically; then the most emblematic monuments (Sagrada Família, Barri Gòtic, etc.); these are followed by the open spaces (Tibidabo, Montjuïc and different parks). There are always museums and exhibitions. The Macba and the Picasso are obligatory, but I never take them to the Barça football museum, even though I am very much a supporter of Barça. I go to the CaixaForum for exhibitions and take advantage of the sea for a quiet moment of conversation. I always invite them to a meal at a "special" restaurant.
- What is the most appropriate, funny or surprising adjective you have heard to describe Barcelona? Which one would you use?
- The visitors I know consider Barcelona a cultured and modern city, tolerant and open; this makes me happy. For me, Barcelona is fantastic: there are fairy tales and goblins to welcome you and make people feel better. I am also sure that practically all Barceloneans sleep well.
- Of where, between the sea and Tibidabo, do you have the most memories?
- Having spent virtually all my life in Barcelona there are many places that bring back good memories. During my adolescence, the Rambla and the sea, specifically the breakwaters. Also Tibidabo, and overall Vallvidrera, where my grandmother took me to have tea, going up on the funicular railway.
- Which is the best place (a park, a café, a seat in the city) to have a romantic date, or to be able to whisper sweet nothings to a loved one?
- Always in the open air: around the bottom of Tibidabo, by the sea, on any beach or a damp street in the Barri Gòtic.
- What colours or smells, when you see or smell them anywhere in the world, remind you immediately of Barcelona?
- Some cities have features which remind me of Barcelona: San Diego, for its light and sea; San Francisco, for the tolerance of its people...
- When you have had to leave the city for a while, what have you missed most?
- Contact with people I love, my friends, the music and Mediterranean food.
- Which of the changes that have been made in the city recently are you happiest with?
- I think things are going well, within the limits of the politicians. They certainly could be better, but I am glad of the infrastructure set up for the Olympic Games and the Forum.
- What don't you like, and what would you do to change it?
- I would improve public transport, cleaning in certain points of the city, and particularly dedicate more money to maintenance of public areas.
- Add anything you would like to say, and that we haven't asked.
- That I like living in Barcelona. That I am happy with its people and my surroundings.