What a Week in Barcelona Really Costs a Family of Four Every “how much does Barcelona cost” article I’ve read gives you a range. Eighty to two hundred euros a day. Which is useless, because…
Every winter we watch tourists walk down Passeig de Gràcia in t-shirts, and every winter I want to stop them. Barcelona in winter is mild compared to London, Oslo or Paris — it rarely drops…
Getting Around 2025 This is an updated post about Barcelona. I hope you will find this article about Barcelona very usefull, once you come to visit this stunning city. Barcelona is the best city we have ever…
Quick answer For my 35th birthday, my husband gave me a session at Flotarium Barcelona. It turned out to be one of the most genuinely restorative things I’ve done in this city — and also…
Flying with young children can be an adventure in itself, but our recent experience with Emirates in economy class from Barcelona to Singapore, with a stopover in Dubai, surpassed all expectations. From the thoughtful presents…
Quick answer We’ve been coming to Ciutadella since the boys could walk, and it’s still the park I send visiting families to first. Seventy acres of it, free, ten minutes from the Gothic Quarter, with…
Quick answer Four days is the length where Barcelona starts working properly. Three days covers the sights; the fourth is what lets you leave the city for a day without feeling you’ve stolen time from…
Quick answer We’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010, and the single thing visitors most reliably get wrong here isn’t which sights to see — it’s which ticket to buy. Most people either overpay for a…
Barcelona is a good city to leave for a day. Not because there’s nothing to do in it — we live here, there’s plenty — but because within two hours of Plaça de Catalunya you…
This walking tour is created mainly for the first time visitors. As this walking tour of Barcelona includes 10 main places to see while in Barcelona. Those can be discovered in only 1 day. We…
There is a park thirteen kilometres from Barcelona where the Sagrada Família comes up to your waist, Montserrat fits in a field, and a child can walk from Girona to Tarragona in about four minutes.…
We’ve taken our two boys out in kayaks on flat water, on the sea and on a reservoir, over several years, working towards one thing: a full day in a kayak. This is what we…
For one week every August, the residents of Gràcia turn their own streets into cathedrals, jungles, underwater worlds and outer space — built by hand, out of recycled plastic, cardboard and bottle tops, over months…
We go to PortAventura at least once a year and have done for years. It’s two hours from Barcelona, it’s the largest resort in southern Europe, and there is one thing about it that almost…
Quick answer If you want to visit Sagrada Familia, book in advance, if you are coming in high season, at least 1 month prior to your trip. What it costs Ticket Adult Under 30 /…
CosmoCaixa Barcelona: The Best-Value Day Out We Know Here There is an Amazon rainforest inside a building in the hills above Barcelona. It has caimans in it, and piranhas, and it rains on you. Adults…
We live in Barcelona and we have seven beaches inside the city. Most weekends that we’re not going anywhere else, we get on a train and leave all of them behind. We go to El…
Berga Resort invited us for this stay. The opinions are our own. We stayed at Berga Resort in May 2017, when Damian was four and Marc was one. With a toddler, we needed two things…
Cotton House sits on Gran Via at the Passeig de Gràcia end, in the building that was the headquarters of the Cotton Producers’ Guild. It kept the marble staircase, the parquet floors, the panelling and…
La Pedrera is the Gaudí building with the roof that looks like a chess set — the one covered in chimneys that have been described as veiled women and as helmeted warriors, and which children…