On September 26, 2017 I arrived in Valencia. After a 27-hour journey from Mexico to Spain, of carrying two suitcases of 24kg each to a fourth floor without a lift, my brother considered it appropriate to ask me the question “Shall we go for a beer?” As far as I remember, I hadn’t finished answering when we were already going down the stairs. Those days it was still a bit hot so we sat on the terrace of a bar, of which I only remember a very colourful mural I had seen during my first visit to Valencia.

As time went by I learned that this bar was (is) Tyris On Tap, the