Barcelona beaches are pretty much the darling of any sun-seeking traveler interested in finding the world’s best urban sand havens. What most visitors don’t know is that the city has 10 beaches lined up one-by-one stretching from the W Barcelona all the way up the coast. That’s right, there’s more…
We’ve got great news for Barcelona foodies: UberEats! Uber, the American company famous for its taxi/ridesharing app is also known for its emerging food-delivery services. On February 25, the super-cool company launched UberEATS, a daily food delivery service in Barcelona. The concept is simple: download UberEATS, browse the visually appealing…
Barcelona’s Gracia neighborhood is the young traveler’s dream – bohemian vibe, plenty of bars and a multitude of interesting people and places. We recently Instagrammed our way through a small part of the neighborhood, partly because we were just passing through and partly because we love Gracia.
Don’t you just hate perfection? We’ve been in Barcelona for more than 10 years now and we would be fatally remiss if we didn’t discourage you from coming to our city for your next vacation or holiday. In fact, we’re so dedicated to dissuading you we’ve come up with our…
Free. Bike. Tour. We love a good FBT almost as much as we love a good travel blogger. April 30 marks the beginning of TBEX in Costa Brava, and we want to say “Welcome to Costa Brava and Barcelona” as best as we know how. That’s why we’ve created a…
A trio of Barcelona hotels — Hotel Mercer, Casa Camper, Placa DO Reial — made it into TripAdvisor’s recent list of Spain’s top-25 small hotels. The list is a yearly list in which TripAdvisor ranks the hotels based on their community scores. For example, the top small hotel in Spain…
Nothing quite inspires creativity like a painting workshop in an art museum. This past December we hosted a painting workshop inside Barcelona’s European Museum of Modern Art, a museum with eclectic exhibition of local artists and temporary exhibitions tucked away amid the winding streets of Old City just a few…
Parles Català? The Catalan language has long-confounded armchair linguists and Barcelona travelers for its uniqueness and cultural significance. Barcelona is the epicenter of the Catalán language for many reasons — the city is the capital of Catalonia and the most famous architectural and art works in the were created by…
Spaniards love their kings. Today marks the arrival of Three Kings Day (TKD) in Spain, a holiday also known as the Epiphany in other parts of the world. TKD is a religious holiday in that it celebrates the day on which the three kings went to Bethlehem and offered gifts…
Our luxury hotel review series began about a month ago with our post about the W Barcelona.We decided to fine tune the process a little bit. Over the next few months, we’re giving you reviews and in-depth information about Barcelona hotels that fall into the Official Barcelona Hotel Association’s 5-Star…
