I'm on Travel Channel!

Ben, a friend from the US just told me he show me on a video on Travel Channel TV (minutes 1:24 and 1:57). Unfortunately, the original couldn't be viewed from Spain, but Gemma, my collegue from Madrid, found a piece of the video on Youtube. Here it is!

Now you can review me on Tripadvisor!

Featured on Tripadvisor. 

I am thrilled to announce you that I just discovered I have been added to the Barcelona listings on Tripadvisor.

In case you're not familiar with it, Tripadvisor is one of the largest developed websites on the net. Travelers from all over the world can post their comments and reviews on attractions, restaurants, hotels, etc. where they have been, and they can prepare their next trip asking in the forums and using the many Tripadvisor tools.

And now you can review my tours there!
So if you have taken one of my tours, or if you have taken a tour with one of my colleagues, please go ahead and leave a little comment. But if you haven't taken anything with me yet, you can still go there and click on the "Like" Facebook button.


Thank you for your collaboration! I am so excited about it!


**** To know more about my Barcelona tours, visit Foreverbarcelona.

What is the connection between me and a Cabriolet?

Well, I wished the answer was I owned one of them but... It isn't! (at least by now...)

But what connects me to a Cabriolet is Barcelona and the Internet!
Today I just received a letter from a really nice couple, Carmen & Thierry, who run a cool blog about Cabriolets. Thierry is French, while Carmen is from Barcelona, at they say every year they got lots of friends asking them for tips for their trips to Spain so Thierry decided to create a mini-guide of Barcelona and post it in his blog. The result is a very appealing mix of dream cars and the city!

And then he found me and decided to recomend my tours in his blog aswell, just because he liked my site, blog and videos and thought having a private tourguide can be fun when visiting Barcelona. So he contacted me to let me know and to ask for permission! Can you believe that? That's SO nice of them!

So the least I could do is letting you all know and sharing their blog with you. I hope to enjoy it!
Thank you Thierry and Carmen, I hope I'll get to meet you when you are in Barcelona!


**** To know more about my Barcelona tours, visit Foreverbarcelona.

Elise Meyer mentions me in her blog

The food journalist Elise Meyer from NYC dedicates this week post to two great summer Spanish dishes: paella and gazpacho. I gave her and her husband Henry a foody tour last year and we had a lot of fun together discovering the best kept gourmet secrets in town!

I spent a great day with Domenico and Giulia, from Kiss the World

As I anounced in a previous post, the owners of Kiss From The World contacted me to help them in their Barcelona project.

I met this adorable couple at their hotel in the Raval district, and we spent the day interviewing interesting local characters like the owner of a spadrille store, the most famous barman at the Boqueria market, a local cheese seller, a Barcelona artist and the owner of Maigot, a cute local-tourist bar on the way to the Park Güell.

We had a lot of fun together, so I decided to go with them to Sagrada Familia where they had to record the other part of their project, the "fun" part, where they say hi from in front of an emblematic local site and send a kiss to the world.

They were really lovely, and I can't wait to see the result of their work, that is schedule to be online around September after they come back from their summer trips where they'll keep working for their project.

Stay tuned for more!

Rated 2nd best tourguide blog in the world!

I'm so very pleased to announce that this blog has just been rated second best tourguide blog in the world by the travellers website Ourexplorer.com.

Check out their post here.

Marta on Jamie's Magazine!

As I had announced last February in this blog, I gave a few tapas tours to two journalists from the Jamie Magazine, by the famous British chef Jamie Oliver.

The number with their story has just been released, and they mention me. I'm even in one of the pics!

Congratulations to Paul Dring, journalist, and William Meppem, photographer, for their beautiful story!

Special Tapas Tours for the Jamie Magazine journalists

Paul Dring, journalist, and William Meppem, photographer, came to Barcelona to prepare a story for the brand new Jamie Magazine, by the famous British chef Jamie Oliver.

I gave them 4 different Tapas Tours where we discovered all kind of venues and specialties in different areas:

On our first tour we explored the Tapas Bars of the Eixample district (around Passeig de Gràcia and Rambla Catalunya). The next day during lunch time we did the areas of Poblesec, Raval and Barceloneta, and for dinner we went to my favorite area: the Born section. Finally, on the morning of the last day we did the bars of the Boqueria Market and some other places in the Gothic Quarter.

By the end of their stay we were so full we couldn't eat anything else! And Paul and William had plenty of material for a great story. But we still felt we would had needed at least another 4 extra hours to cover a few more places (less centric, more out-of-the-beaten-track) that we couldn't fit in our itineraries...

Can't wait to see the next issue of the Magazine, where their story will be published. That'll be by the end of April or beggining of May. I'll keep you posted!