Archive for December, 2005
This little piggie went to the Market Hotel
By Barceloner at 22 December, 2005, 11:53 am
Now, being that I live in Barcelona, don’t expect many hotel reviews. What I can give you is mostly second hand from friends and family who came to visit. Having said that, I often choose hotels for people, so I get a chance to check them out beforehand, just as I did with [...]
Read More >>Christmas Party time … oh no ….
By Barceloner at 16 December, 2005, 1:08 pm
To go or not to go: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous drunkeness,
Or to take arms against a sea of alcohol,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The belly-ache and the thousand slurred words
My ears [...]
Official: 20 Minutes most popular paper
By Barceloner at 15 December, 2005, 12:58 pm
According to The Editors weblog, 20 Minutos is now the Spanish paper with the largest readership. The latest “Estudio General de Medios” shows that 20 Minutes with a readership of 2,298,000 has surpassed El Pais as the most widely read newspaper, a fact bound to please 20-Minutos editor Arsenio Escolar, himself a former El Pais [...]
Read More >>Thirty six chairs
By Barceloner at 14 December, 2005, 3:20 pm
Attention: serious insider info follows!
We had been talking about visiting this place for ages before making the trip out to Lliça d’Amunt, a small town near Granollers. We finally got there this summer after a day walking in the country … or were we lounging by the pool, I can’t remember.
The Trenta-sis Cadires (“Thirty [...]
La Vinateria del Call
By Barceloner at 14 December, 2005, 1:11 pm
This venue was the inspiration for the Living Barcelona website! We happened upon this place once by taking a meandering route through the tiny passegeways of the barri gòtic, and having gorged ourselves on tapas, wine and cooked meats, could never find it again. Digging through the pockets of my jeans I found [...]
Read More >>Suzet: King of the Crêpes
By Barceloner at 13 December, 2005, 11:57 am
News: Suzet is no more! It has been replaced by a ubiquitous Udon Noodle Bar
A perennial favourite of ours is this crêperie in the bustling heart of Barcelona. I have been there so many times now I have lost count; it’s always a great place to take visiting friends and [...]
Dinner from The Kitchen - where else?
By Barceloner at 12 December, 2005, 11:34 am
It’s always the same.
We head off on a Friday night with a place in mind and hunger in our bellies. Half an hour later we are kicking ourselves for not having made a reserva and trawling the streets for a nice-looking restaurant.
Five or six blocks later we are ready to enter the nearest place that [...]