Un poco de ambiente

Just been getting my head together a bit about Barcelona, which is looming large on the horizon. Nipped into town today to buy the Time Out Barcelona guide. The Time Out city guides are by far the best, particularly as they have a good Gay and Lesbian section. Okay, so they don't have a Transgender section per-sé, but when I read "Gay and Lesbian" I always add on "and Transgender" in my head. The gay scene is generally pretty safe for trannies too.

Actually I'm kind of hoping that we might get further afield than the safety of the Gaixample and sample the more general Barcelona nightlife as Becky. Barcelona's gay scene is fairly diffuse anyway. As you would expect in a such a vibrant, easy-going, artistic and cosmopolitan city, a lot of Barcelona is un poco de ambiente, "a little bit gay".

Anyway you're going to have to put up with 2 weeks of blog drought in mid-June whilst I soak up the sun and take pictures of tile patterns whist saying "isn't this pretty, Thomas?" in a John Major voice. I might be able to wangle some blogging on the move, but don't expect anything too incisive!

Also, when I get back, I'm not even going to be able to write much about it. This is because I promised Bella Jay from Repartee that I'd do a piece on the trip for the magazine when I got back, and it really aught to be stuff that I haven't already plastered all over my web site. I mean, just imagine if every tranny who reads my blog decided not to buy that copy of Repartee because they'd already read the best bit in it on my website! Sales would plummet and I'd feel terrible about it.

I'm sensitive like that. You can probably put it down to me being ambiante... if only un poco.