Ajuntament de Sant Cugat del V 2025-09-12T19:13:44Z
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Rain lashed against my jacket as I stood paralyzed in Sant Cugat's main square, a whirlwind of neon lights and Catalan shouts swallowing me whole. My fingers trembled against my phone screen, smudging rainwater across the cracked glass. "Where ARE you?" Maria's text screamed into the stormy twilight, the third identical message in ten minutes. Our group had splintered like wet confetti when the drum procession surged unexpectedly, and now I was drowning in a sea of umbrellas and panicked tourist
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The sticky Barcelona heat clung to my skin like plastic wrap as I shoved through sweaty crowds at Sant Cugat's festival. My phone buzzed with my third friend-location demand in ten minutes – Pablo wanted churros near Plaza Europa, Lucia chased flamenco at Carrer Centre, and me? I was hopelessly lost between accordion music and the nauseating scent of frying squid. Last year this chaos made me ditch friends entirely after missing the fire-run. But this time, I swiped open the festival's secret we