Category: Spain

Friday’s Featured Food: Lunch in the Sobrino de Botin, the Oldest Restaurant in the World in Madrid, Spain

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I recently found myself backpacking in Spain and headed to the capital city Madrid. Madrid is famous for a lot of different things down the years such as Real Madrid, the gay scene, Franco’s parades but did you know that Madrid has the world’s oldest restaurant? Neither did I until I turned up here, neither Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Lunch in the Sobrino de Botin, the Oldest Restaurant in the World in Madrid, Spain[…]

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Backpacking in Catalonia: Top 5 Sights in Barcelona

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You might be surprised to see me do a top 5 of a really popular city and one that has ben covered so much on travel blogs, but it was my first time to tour Barcelona this year and I was quite impressed by it so I thought I’d get a top 5 typed up Read more about Backpacking in Catalonia: Top 5 Sights in Barcelona[…]

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Backpacking in Catalonia: Exploring the Village of Gracia in Barcelona

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Barcelona shouts “tourist city” to me and while I can see the reason why it attracts more travellers than Valencia, I still knew I could escape the crowds and get to some off the wall places. While backpacking in Catalonia I heard about the village of Gracia which is housed inside Barcelona’s metropolitan area yet Read more about Backpacking in Catalonia: Exploring the Village of Gracia in Barcelona[…]

Staying in the Best Hostel in Barcelona, Catalonia: Hostal Barcelona

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Let me start with a shock for you. Obvious European cities never did much for me. I never had any intention of visiting places like Paris, Munich, Rome, Madrid and Barcelona. But the travel lifestyle is unpredictable. While looking for a cheap flight from New York to Europe, Barcelona and Madrid came top. I opted Read more about Staying in the Best Hostel in Barcelona, Catalonia: Hostal Barcelona[…]

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Gracia Neighbourhood Food Tour with Devour Barcelona in Catalonia

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After touring Andorra and loving my first week in mainland Europe for over 5 years, I decided on doing some quirky and unusual things when my backpack and I hit the Catalonian city of Barcelona. Officially and politically I was in Spain of course, but the locals love their Catalonian heritage and hence red and Read more about Gracia Neighbourhood Food Tour with Devour Barcelona in Catalonia[…]

World Borders: How to Get From Barcelona Airport to Andorra by Bus (Catalonia/Spain to Andorra)

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As well as being a proud Catalan city, Barcelona (officially part of Spain) also sits near the border of two other countries, Andorra and France and both are only a 3 hour trip from Barcelona. As I had been to France and Spain before a few times, I decided to head to Andorra while I Read more about World Borders: How to Get From Barcelona Airport to Andorra by Bus (Catalonia/Spain to Andorra)[…]

Loving my experience visiting the Mestalla while backpacking in Valencia back in 2003.

Backpacking in Valencia, Spain – Blast from the Past

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I rarely talk about my early trips around Europe but they have been reignited the last few weeks thanks to the football World Cup in Brazil and the fact I’m visiting Mexico which hosted the 1986 World Cup. You see, the reason for my backpacking in Valencia was so that I could visit the football Read more about Backpacking in Valencia, Spain – Blast from the Past[…]

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Thirsty Thursdays: Lads Holidays in Magaluf, Majorca, Spain

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If the lads are reading this it might jog a few memories from back in the day. Rather than “backpacking in Majorca”, we partied in Majorca, spending a week in the party hub of Magaluf. Thirsty Thursdays today takes me back to 2001, while keeping you in touch with the present. Magaluf it seems it Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Lads Holidays in Magaluf, Majorca, Spain[…]

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