Fun tours for the Levine family!

The Levine family were coming to town for the Easter Holidays and wanted to have some different fun tours.

The day they arrived to Barcelona I took them to a Tapas tour. We hopped from one bar to another in the Born and Gothic Quarter, and I made a special selection of places for them that included from dirty looking taberns to fancy bars, as well as typical tapas from Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia... And we finished at a great desert place!

Another day, after a morning discovering the Gaudi sites, I took Karen on a shopping tour. Since she is a shoe lover we focused in the Rambla Catalunya area. She got a few pairs of shoes, but we also found a nice bag and cute clothes! She was so glad with her treat: 4hours of girls time!

And the last day we had 6yo Ben favorite: the Sweet Barcelona tour! We started with a rich breakfast at the most typical place in town for hot chocolate and churros. And after that we got little Ben what I had promissed him: a huge giant lollypop! I also took them to specialised stores where you can find all kind of cakes, cookies, turron, chocolate, ice cream, candies... And finished the tour at the Chocolate Museum. What a yummy morning!

Gourmet tours

A great day at the wine country!

The staff from Complete Campbell Catering (www.tripleccatering.com) was in Spain to get in touch with the local cooking and asked me to take them to the Penedès Wine Country to discover our wineries.
It was a great day: we visited Albet i Noya, an organic winery, and Gramona, known for their elegant hand-made cavas (sparkling wine). The tours at each cellar included a visit of their venue, a walk in the vineyards and tasting some wonderful wines.
See my photo album about the wineries here:

Penedès Wine Country

New Center of the Jewish Quarter

A new Center of the Jewish Quarter has recentely been open in the heart of the medieval Call of Barcelona.

Located in a restored old building with a history full of legends (some people said it was once the House of an Alchemist...), it wants to become an information point where visitors can discover more about the neighborhood where the jewish community lived until the attacks of 1391.

However, right now their offer is quite simple: a few underground excavations visible through a glass floor, some pottery and books displayed in a couple of showcases, a couple of jewish tumbstones, and slide show that in my opinion is more interesting for researchers rather than tourists. Guidebooks and postards are also available.

In one of the street doors there is a mezuza hole.

To know more: http://www.museuhistoria.bcn.es/

Tapies Foundation closed for renovation works

If you are interested in contemporary art, this is something to take into account:

The Tapies Foundation will be closed for renovation works during the first half of 2008.
This museum is specialised in the works of Antoni Tapies, one of the most renowned Spanish contemporary artists.

To know more about it: http://www.fundaciotapies.org/