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De Tapes Per Barcelona: The Best & Worst Tapas
If you read my post about the De Tapes Per Barcelona tapas route over the weekend, you may have wondered what kinds of tapas you can get. Here’s what I’ve eaten so far, ranked from worst to best!...
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The Insider’s Guide to Gaudí: Part 2
A little while ago, I exchanged guests posts with Annie of Gambas and Grits. Check out her cool blog (and send her felicidades about her adorable new baby!) Anyway, I wrote The Insider’s Guide to...
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Barcelona Local Artist Xavi Julià of BarcelonInk
Hello everybody! This week, I’m excited to feature something new on my blog – an interview with local Barcelona artist Xavi Julià. Here’s his interview, where he was kind enough to tell me all about...
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Barcelona’s Best: Steel Donkey Bike Tours
Steel Donkey Bike Tours kindly invited me to try out one of their tours. (click on the header to go to their site). I’d never had a bike tour of the city before. You may have read before on here that...
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The 4 Best Things About Spring in Barcelona
Spring has finally sprung in Barcelona! Well, kind of…we had a few weeks of absolutely beautiful weather, but sadly the rain is back and casting gloomy clouds of mist over the city. But at this point,...
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Guest Post: My Top 5 Things To Do in Barcelona
Hello everybody! This week I’m off to Ibiza to enjoy some sunshine, beaches, & fiesta. So instead of my regular posting, I have a couple of guest posts lined up. This one is from freelance writer...
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Barcelona’s Best: Vegan Food at Juicy Jones
“You went to a vegan restaurant??” my dad sputtered when I told him what I’d had for lunch. “Are you sure you’re feeling okay? How did you end up there?” I had two more surprises in store. 1) I went...
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Where in Spain Wednesday – Barcelona’s Casa Batllò
OK, I know I’ve featured Casa Batllò in my Wednesday series a couple of times before, but I’m just so obsessed with it! I love the colorful, skeletal building that overlooks elegant Passeig de Gràcia,...
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Where in Spain Wednesday – Barcelona’s Parc Güell
As the weather has finally warmed up in Barcelona (yayyyy!), here’s one of my favorite springtime photos of the city – the famous Parc Güell showing off its gorgeous greens. As you go higher and...
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Where in Spain Wednesday – My Favorite Door in Barcelona
Hola everyone! This week, I wanted to share one of my favorite photos from summer in Barcelona – this beautiful door I spotted in the posh neighborhood Sarrià. Sarrià is tucked up higher in the hills...
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Three menus in Barcelona: ‘One For Every Pocket’ (Guest Post)
by Alan Ritchie and Daniel Kidd There are hundreds, if not thousands of places in Barcelona to sit down for lunch. Where to start? Some days you may be forced to pack away a bocata in 5 mins and get...
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Barcelona’s Best Vintage Shopping and Flea Markets
Barcelona’s famous for having great shopping streets – Passeig de Gràcia and Portal de l’Àngel are probably the best-known – but if you’re looking for something a little less Zara and more unique, here...
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Barcelona’s Summer Best: The Alaire Terrace Bar
Barcelona can get awfully hot and sticky in the summer (which is finally here, yes!). The best way to escape the busy city and the sticky pavements? Take to the skies! No, I don’t mean flying – I mean...
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Barcelona’s Summer Best: 360º Views of The City
Last week, I featured the amazing Alaire terrace bar at the Hotel Condes de Barcelona, and now I’m back with another fab hotel terrace bar – the Hotel Barceló’s 360º bar. Now, I’m not typically the...
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WISW: Barcelona’s La Pedrera
Hello hello hello! For this week’s Where in Spain Wednesday, I’m featuring the other Gaudí house (after quite a few posts professing my love for Casa Batllò). This fancy building is La Pedrera – the...
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Where in Spain Wednesday – Barcelona’s Festa Major de Gràcia
We’ve officially hit mid-August (how scary is that??), so that means one of my favorite Barcelona events is here – the Festa Major de Gràcia! The Festa Major is a huge street party that takes place...
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WISW: Correfocs in Barcelona
Today is the last day of Barcelona’s Festa Major de Gràcia! To celebrate, here’s a picture of one of the highlights of the festival – the correfocs (literally “fire runs”). The name pretty much tells...
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You’ve Never Seen Street Signs Like This Before
A few months ago, I started noticing that something amazing was happening to the street signs in Barcelona. Slowly, fun bits of graffiti were being splashed all over the traffic signs. Some of them are...
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WISW: Sant Jordi on Barcelona’s Passeig de Gràcia
Hello hello hello! How’s everyone doing? For this Where in Spain Wednesday, I’ve got a photo of one of the most important symbols of Catalonia and Barcelona – Sant Jordi. You might know him better as...
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Barcelona’s Magical Fall Colors
As you may have read more than once on my little blog, I’m still adjusting to the shock of having actual seasons. I grew up in southern California in a city that’s basically the opposite of Narnia –...
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