While celebrating Barça deservedly winning LaLiga, we decided to add a new page to our site. You see… We’re Socis. We have season tickets to the FemenĂ (working on that for el primer equip!). Our Instagram feeds are basically a Barça highlight reel on weekends. All matches are appointment viewing when we can’t be there […]
We’ve been maintaining a Barcelona Visitors Guide for friends on this site for a while now — a running list of neighborhoods, restaurants, cafes, bookstores, markets, and things to do for friends and family visiting the city. It was useful. It was also, if we’re being honest, kind of a wall of text. We rebuilt […]
Spring break this year was a road trip: out of Barcelona, through France as per usual, a stop in Luxembourg, and north to meet Lilly in Haarlem. From there the days ran together in the good way: a lakeside spot outside Amsterdam you could only reach by boat, Madurodam (my favorite place when I was […]
Cameron was off snowboarding in the Pyrenees with his school, which left Kate and me with a rare open week and a short flight’s worth of options. Malta won, mostly because neither of us had been there and someone had recently mentioned it on a call. It sounded good. There’s also some amazing pre-Egyptian history […]
This is quite a project Kate took on last Christmas! Wow. You can read all about it here. Have there been any missed citas? Not really. Maybe a few that were a bit more impromptu and didn’t make the notebook. And many that happened along the way on adventures outside of Barcelona. A sundowner in […]
After an epic safari, we weren’t quite ready to say goodbye to Africa—so we didn’t. We headed back to Tanzania and on to Zanzibar, where more family joined us from Barcelona for a Christmas on the beach. Sandy feet, salty hair, games, lots of laughs, and the perfect shift from game drives to slow, dreamy, […]
Tanzania & Kenya: Even When You Know Africa, She Still Surprises You Between Kate, Lilly, Cameron, and me, Africa has been a recurring chapter in our family story the past few years—different countries, different camps, different eras of wide-eyed wonder. But December in Tanzania and Kenya was something entirely new: it was my sister’s first […]
Beyond the other trips, summer and fall were busy. We made it to London a couple of times to see Lilly and catch a Vikings victory, and had visits from both friends and family. We had an amazing Thanksgiving, and were just exploring.
Not that long ago, Poblenou had almost no decent coffee spots. But that’s changed. With the startups came the coffee shops. Now it is common to trip over three or four on a single block — all local, all unique, all worth trying. So we did the only reasonable thing: made a day of it. […]
This post is a bit for me, actually. This city immerses you in art, and I’m always curious to learn more. So I did a little research project to highlight some of the main influential artists who were touched by Barcelona. Then I realized it might be a good read for friends and family visiting […]