We went to the Palau de la Música on Thursday night to see Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty guitarists. This concert was part of the 18th annual Guitar Festival that is held in April in Barcelona. Last year we saw a great performance from John Williams at the Petit Palau. Sadly, the hall [...]
I haven’t posted anything for a few weeks, so a catch-up is long overdue. We had a wonderful week with Edmund over Easter. The weather was truly awful (by Barcelona standards) and it rained every single day, but that didn’t dampen our spirits! We paid a visit to the Natural History museum [...]
We’ve got my son Edmund staying for the first week of the Easter holidays, and it’s fantastic to have him here. Unfortunately the new flat was not quite ready on time to move in to, so we’re still in rented accommodation, but he doesn’t mind in the slightest. We took Edmund round to [...]
I got back from a business trip to London late on Friday night, and we decided to make the most of Saturday night by heading for Comerc24 tapas restaurant which is less than ten minutes walk from the flat. We could only get a table reservaton for 11:15 pm (I kid you not), but [...]
We spent Saturday afternoon at the Contemporary Art Museum in Barcelona (MACBA). We mainly went to see the “The Killing Machine” exhibit from Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, but it was also our first time there so we ploughed through the other exhibits as well. The Killing Machine exhibits were great - [...]
We had planned to go to the carnaval in Sitges today, but the weather is so awful. It’s been raining all day, so we’ve just stayed in - we’re planning to go tomorrow if the rain lifts. Isabel has spent the afternoon updating the content of our main website Sweet Home Barcelona with the latest [...]
I’ve added the first couple of streets to our list of Barcelona streets. These are: C/Caspe and C/Gerona. I chose these to start with because they are the streets that we have lived in.
I’ve started a new page on where the street names of Barcelona come from. It draws on the existing street name dictionary available on the Ayuntamiento’s web site. Click on our blog page to see what’s there.