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…
Lost in the Golden Sands of Dubai As the sun dips below the horizon, casting hues of orange and pink across the desert sky, we find ourselves immersed in the enchanting beauty of Dubai‘s golden…
Can Fisher sits directly on the sand at Bogatell, which in Barcelona means two things at once: the view is genuinely lovely, and you are about to pay beachfront prices for rice. We took both…
Everyone who comes to Barcelona thinks about the football. Almost nobody thinks about the basketball, and for a family with a sports-mad child, that’s backwards. FC Barcelona’s basketball team plays at the Palau Blaugrana, an…
Barcelona’s old town is not one place. Ciutat Vella — literally “old city” — is four distinct districts pressed together, and knowing which one you’re in is the difference between a good afternoon and three…
We’ve been to Sitges with the kids more than once. The first time was a weekend in July 2017 with the grandparents, when the boys were tiny. The most recent was a day trip with…
I stayed at Hotel Peralada during a work familiarisation trip organised by the Costa Brava tourist board, when I was representing the travel company I worked for. The stay was part of that trip, not…
We’ve stayed at Hotel Roger de Flor by Seleqtta twice, in two very different rooms. The first time we had the Presidential 360 Views room, with a jacuzzi in the room and the whole bay…
Empuriabrava is called the “Venice of Spain” because it’s built on water: more than 24 km of navigable canals, the largest residential marina in Europe, with a boat moored behind almost every house. We came…
We bought four Japan Rail Passes in Barcelona, paid over €1,000 for them, and used them across a 19-day trip through Tokyo, Nikko, Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, Uji and Kurashiki. So this is not a theoretical…