I was glancing through Margarita Puig’s book “Restaurantes de Barcelona donde nunca te han llevado” (Barcelona restaurants where they’ve never taken you to” and came across a good write-up for the Flor de Vid restaurant. As it’s “just up the road” (two blocks) from us and we’ve never been there before we thought we’d give [...]
Last weekend we had family visiting us; Isabel’s brother Juan, his wife Montse and their eight-year-old Daniel. We had a great weekend. Errr at least after Friday night when Juan, Dani and I made a trip to Ikea to get some wardrobes for Edmund’s bedroom. The flat packs just about squeezed [...]
23rd June was the midsummer fiesta in Barcelona (and presumably in the rest of Spain, but it’s a big one here). Saturday night saw fireworks spectaculars at the beach and all night verbanas with petardos until dawn. We spent the night down at the beach last year with Isabel’s brother, Juan and his Italian/Canadian friend [...]
This weekend has been the Festa Major (Fiesta Mayor) of the Eixample Dreta where we live. Our street, C/Girona, was closed to traffic along much of its length to allow market stalls and entertainment stands to be set up. The intention was to take the fiesta back to the period when the Eixample [...]
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 picked up a hire car on Friday aftenoon and headed off to Mas de Torrent as a surprise treat for Isabel (and me). Words can only fail to describe what a truely wonderful place this is. Five star luxury in a beautiful country masÃa about 90 minutes drive from Barcelona. It’s [...]
We needed to get some doors for our flat renovations, so on Saturday we decided (on Ester’s recommendation) to go out past Gerona to a small Catalan town called La Bisbal D’Empordá. We’ve been there before when it was Isabel’s birthday last year and we stayed in the rather posh hotel Castell d’Empordá - which [...]
On Friday night we ate at Mayura lounge bar in C/Gerona 57 (Tel: +34 93 4814536). We had been in before for a quick drink, but thought that it wasn’t worth stopping to eat. Anyway, we decided to give it a go, as Isabel was “dying for a curry” and we had yet [...]
We went for dinner last night at Marc Blau in Roger De Lluria opposite the Ritz Hotel. The restaurant is basically non-smoking which is a plus in Barcelona, and the meal was of a reasonably good standard. I had a pasta starter (a bit too soft for me, but seems to be “al dente español”), [...]