Hi, Valerie. We met in Girona via a mutual friend. The story is partly recounted in this piece:

https://medium.com/iberospherical/have-beret-will-travel-858339754c73

while the story of how she ended up arriving in Girona from Cuba after her father escaped the country is told in part here:

https://medium.com/iberospherical/the-shifting-ebb-and-flow-of-transatlantic-migration-fd53d1e6cccc

I hope you find those stories interesting!

I was actually a little reticent about sharing some of the personal nature of the first one, and was then rather disappointed at the lack of response it received, so huffily decide not to do that again, and stick to more abstract matters with just the odd reference to my personal and familial angle. But certainly our differing journeys to and perspectives on Spanish society are a big factor in the perspectives that I share here.