It’s been a good year for Catalán Cuisine. El Celler de Can Roca, a home-grown Catalán restaurant located about 100 km north of Barcelona in Girona, was named the world’s best restaurant by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, a culinary committee who makes a yearly list of the world’s 100…
We spend most of our time writing about how amazing Barcelona is. However, we also spend a chunk of our hours reading what our fellow bloggers write. Travel blogs are many. Well-written words are not. Sometimes we read terrible stuff. Sometimes we read good stuff. And sometimes we read stuff…
Rolling through the city… A few months ago we kicked off a giveway for a free TBEX bike tour of Barcelona for any travel blogger heading to Catalonia for TBEX Costa Brava. TBEX, as you may or may not know, is an acronym for Travel Blogger Exchange, a network of…
Barcelona bike tours…where do we begin?! Choosing one of the many Barcelona bike tours for your next visit to the Mediterranean’s best city is simple and really complicated at the same time. This is a good problem to have, in the sense that the complications and the simplicity are all…
Summer is nearly hear. Temperatures are climbing. The sun is beaming. That means only one thing: BEER! The ice-cold golden god of cheap drinking is one of Barcelona’s specialties. Your trips to the local watering hole will usually include a bottle of Moritz, Estrella Damm or San Miguel – Barcelona’s…
Drinks are pretty much the quickest and easiest way to experience Barcelona’s culture. They’re also the most relevant: Barcelona’s tourism hits its peak during the hottest month of the year. Hottest month = lots of drinking. The city is home to many amazing bars and coctelerias, but right now we’re only interested…
Long, long ago in a time when kings, queens and mighty warriors ruled the Earth, Catalonia’s national hero, St. Jordi, met a dragon. The rest, as they say, is history … St. Jordi’s Day history. Slaying the Dragon: The Story Behind St. Jordi’s Day Mighty St. Jordi (St. George) was…
So you call yourself a professional travel writer or blogger? That’s exactly why we’ve made this post…for you, the professional travel blogger who is coming to Costa Brava to network, share ideas and find inspiration at TBEX Costa Brava, as well as for any bloggers planning on visiting Barcelona in…
No cruiser wants to get suckered into a bad meal in Barcelona. Most visitors who arrive to Barcelona by cruise ship only have a limited time to experience the city. They want to use the few precious hours they have to eat good food and avoid the touristy places filled with greasy…
Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell is a wonderland of strange shapes, magnificent mosaics and fantastic views of Barcelona. It was a quaint oasis before the Olympics, but after a heavy marketing campaign featuring the park’s mosaic kimodo dragon it became one of the premier tourist spots in the city…. Getting to…
