You are always surrounded by people here in Barcelona, as is, I suspect, the case with most urban cities. I realise now that Australia really is typified by its space. Despite the fact that Sydney is Australia’s biggest city and probably the most high density, it still cannot compare to all these millions of European and Asian lives living in rooms, apartments, suburbs all touching one another.

It changes one’s lifestyle dramatically walking through and sitting in public spaces and the fact that there is less separation of the people, those divisions of class, race and subcultures less felt when we’re all crammed into the same space. Different lives cross over one another, rather than lying parallel, close but untouching, as they do in Sydney.