For four winters, Christmas for us meant Turin. My sister’s family lives there, so we’d fly in from Barcelona, my parents would arrive in time for New Year’s Eve, and for a week three families…
We spent a sunny October day in Zaragoza with the boys, 24°C and blue sky. We were visiting family who live just outside the city. I also know Zaragoza from the other side: for years…
Visited September 2017 · updated September 2026 with 2026 prices and the Viking Ship Museum closure Disclosure: Visit Oslo gave us a 24-hour Oslo Pass for this trip. Everything else we paid ourselves, and the…
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…
Platja d’Aro is a proper Costa Brava resort town: one long central beach, a seafront of restaurants, water parks, and in August a great many people. We’ve been in winter, which almost nobody writes about,…