Barcelona is a stunning city. The partly built Sagrada Familia is amazing, and there's nearly twice as much built since I was last there. You could spend a whole weekend or more just visiting Gaudi buildings. The Pedrada flats are another highlight. Mostly they are lived in but they've kept one flat, decked out how a bourgeois family might have lived at the time. Another highlight is the superb aquarium on the seafront. The food is pretty awesome too. Couple of hints - try and stay in town, eg somewhere near the Ramblas. This means you can walk everywhere. Another hint is they eat out quite late, so if you were thinking of having a meal at say 7 or 8pm they have barely opened and most places still shut. When we were there we'd gone to bed earlyish on the night we arrived but were awakened by noise in the street - there was a big procession, fireworks and they were doing the huge human pyramid thing - about 8 people high - so we got up again to enjoy the spectacle. Dunno when they do this, but would be worth checking up
Must go back !
That reminds me of a funny (true) story.
Again with work, MrsD with me, I had driven from Switzerland to a place in the Basque area.........the place was Donastia SanSebastian (spelling ??).
Knackered, we had a drink and crashed out.
We we woken at midnight and the town was alive, buzzing. Like you we got dressed and joined in.
1st bar we went in they were handing round all these plates of food.
How kind, we thought, and tucked in.
It was weeks later that we learned that was tapas and we were supposed to have paid for it
