I love having a playlist that reflects my travel mood, which not infrequently features ambient tunes to get me through long long flights. Spotify classified my musical type as “Vampire”… um what, yikes? In the generalist spirit of learning a little bit about everything...
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway There are so many delicious things to try in Paris that I am putting myself on a...
FICTION It is telling that almost all fiction based in Barcelona is of the noir/thriller/mystery genre. The city is a layer cake of two thousand years of history, the stones of the old being ever folded into and under the new. Cultural overlays and vestiges of the past intermingle...
Many people visit Barcelona for just 2-3 days, and yes you can definitely hit a few of the top-level sights in this amount of time if you hustle!! Any “must-see” guide will include touring some combination of buildings by the architect Gaudi including the famous Sagrada...
There are something like 10,000 restaurants in BCN, with 26 Michelin starred restaurants, so any recommendation list is going to be super subjective. Here are some we like! CATALAN/SPANISH RESTAURANTS El Nacional – several restaurant concepts under one roof off the Gracia...
“Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn If you have just a second in Paris by all means pop around and see the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, Sacré Coeur and Notre Dame. I would not deprive you of these magnificent stops, and no guilt if this...