Barcelona adventures

Sharing a few of our favourite Barcelona adventures.

Hello associates! How are you? I hope that your week is off to an incredible begin! We’re right here in Sevilla having fun with the beautiful sights, procuring, scrumptious meals, and some tourist-y issues. It’s been the proper mixture of actions and chill time. I hope that your summer season goes effectively up to now, too.

For in the present day’s submit, I needed to share some out Barcelona adventures + the place we stayed should you’re planning on reserving a visit. We had been capable of spend a couple of nights earlier than and after the Disney cruise and fell in love with Barcelona. In fact it has the beautiful mixture of structure, from Gaudi’s iconic designs to extra trendy types, Gothic cathedrals and Roman ruins. It additionally has the texture of an enormous metropolis (as a result of it’s one lol) with sooooo many issues to see and do. We simply may have spent a couple of weeks there, and listed below are among the highlights from our journey.

Eating in Barcelona

The meals in Barcelona is 100%. I’d put it proper up there with Rome and we had been blown away by so most of the eating places we tried. They use loads of recent elements and produce, it’s seasoned effectively, parts are good (particularly should you like sharing), and allergens are sometimes clearly marked.

Prado de Flores

This was our first meal in Barcelona and it positively set us off on the fitting foot. I used to be craving a Tinto de Verano (crimson wine with citrus spritzer, like a sangria however much less candy) and Spanish tortilla. The ladies and I shared fairly a couple of various things: hen skewers, Greek salad, sardines, and tortilla. P additionally obtained a burger and it was perfection.

Gluten free meals tour

I’ve a whole submit about this expertise, however we had the chance to check out six totally different spots with tons of gluten-free choices. I’d by no means had a gf Nutella-filled croissant and it set my soul freeeeee. This was most likely in record of prime 10 greatest issues I’ve ever eaten. Barcelona has SO MANY gluten-free choices and devoted gluten-free kitchens. Our information advised us that it’s among the best locations to journey and reside if in case you have Celiac or are gluten delicate/illiberal.

Bloome by Sasha

That is a completely gluten-free brunch spot with pancakes, avocado toast, bowls, and pastries, utilizing natural and recent elements. I’d eat right here weekly if we lived in Barcelona. They’ve a few areas so should you’re planning a go to, I positively advocate checking it out.

Lokal Bar

This was near our lodge, and had nice opinions and Spanish tortilla on the menu – I used to be on a mission to seek out the very best one haha – and we went and shared a bunch of tapas one evening. The tortilla had truffle oil (ommmggg) and the cheese platter was beautiful.

Roots & Rolls

One of many highlights of our journey was seeing my pal Sara! We used to show collectively at Canyon Ranch and have stayed in contact regardless of strikes all around the nation. OG weblog reader associates would acknowledge her from our Soli Beat video, weblog exercise movies and Summer season Form Up! She’s completely superb — one of the constructive folks I do know and I like any likelihood now we have to catch up.

We met up together with her and her husband for an incredible vegan sushi, gluten-free choices, ramen, pad thai, and so forth. The meals was wonderful and the corporate was the very best half 🙂

When you reside in Barcelona or go to, she owns the primary assisted stretching studio in Spain: Stretch Eden.

Barcelona lodge suggestions

We stayed at two totally different accommodations in Barcelona: Royal Ramblas earlier than the cruise, and Room Mate Carla after the cruise.

(had the lodge gymnasium to myself)

It was cute as a result of it was the ladies and myself, so we every ended up having our personal little mattress in every spot. It’s price mentioning right here that I virtually all the time guide our accommodations free of charge utilizing bank card factors. We use our Amex Platinum for the whole lot, and it offers us so many perks, like lounge entry, procuring credit, factors again for on a regular basis purchases, credit for his or her High quality Lodges assortment, Uber credit — I LOOOOVE this factor. When you’re focused on getting one, my referral link is here and I’m comfortable to assist with any questions! More about how we use points for travel in this post.

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There are loads of totally different excursions and locations to go to in Barcelona, together with the well-known Boquat de Mercaria, La Sagrada Familia, tons of museums, and beautiful seashores. I’d have liked to have a museum day, however the youngsters had been toast after the cruise. (I’m slightly bummed that we missed our Sagrada Familia tour, however we’ll positively be again!) We shopped, visited a couple of totally different markets, explored the outside of Sagrada Familia,

and made it over to the White Rabbit museum, which was an enormous hit.

White Rabbit blends Catalan tradition with immersive experiences, together with projection rooms, digital actuality, lights, and sculptures. When you’ve got youngsters and are touring to Barcelona, I extremely advocate it.

Is Barcelona protected?

Our cab driver warned us about pickpockets and advised us which areas to keep away from, however I by no means felt unsafe whereas we had been there. I felt a lot safer than I do in lots of elements of the US and I feel like something, it’s about being conscious of your environment and staying the place are different folks round. Keep in well-lit and pretty populated areas, know the place you’re going, and maintain your belongings near you. (I’ve been carrying this handy Amazon bag this complete journey.)

The aim of this exploration journey we’ve been on

I went into this journey with the intention of spending high quality time with youngsters, seeing new locations, and taking a while to totally recharge after a fairly grueling begin to 2025. I additionally began off this journey on the lookout for… a spot to reside. I felt like I may need readability with *one good spot* and Barcelona has been the closest. It has the massive metropolis really feel we love (tons of procuring, handy, so many gluten free choices and improbable eating), however with smaller charming neighborhood pockets. We had been particularly keen on the Grácia neighborhood. I don’t know if we’ll really ever extra from Tucson, however we’ve been contemplating totally different choices and retaining our eyes open. 🙂

Have you ever been to Barcelona? What’s your #1 favourite place to journey in the summertime?

xoxo

Gina

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