Barcelona adventures – The Fitnessista

Sharing a few of our favourite Barcelona adventures.

Hello associates! How are you? I hope that your week is off to a tremendous begin! We’re right here in Sevilla having fun with the attractive sights, purchasing, scrumptious meals, and some tourist-y issues. It’s been the right mixture of actions and chill time. I hope that your summer season goes properly to date, too.

For immediately’s publish, I needed to share some out Barcelona adventures + the place we stayed in the event you’re planning on reserving a visit. We have been capable of spend just a few nights earlier than and after the Disney cruise and fell in love with Barcelona. After all it has the attractive mixture of structure, from Gaudi’s iconic designs to extra fashionable kinds, Gothic cathedrals and Roman ruins. It additionally has the texture of an enormous metropolis (as a result of it’s one lol) with sooooo many issues to see and do. We simply might have spent just a few weeks there, and listed here are a few of the highlights from our journey.

Barcelona adventures

Eating in Barcelona

The meals in Barcelona is 100%. I’d put it proper up there with Rome and we have been blown away by so lots of the eating places we tried. They use lots of recent elements and produce, it’s seasoned properly, parts are good (particularly in the event you like sharing), and allergens are sometimes clearly marked.

Prado de Flores

This was our first meal in Barcelona and it positively set us off on the precise foot. I used to be craving a Tinto de Verano (pink wine with citrus spritzer, like a sangria however much less candy) and Spanish tortilla. The women and I shared fairly just a few various things: rooster skewers, Greek salad, sardines, and tortilla. P additionally acquired a burger and it was perfection.

Gluten free meals tour

I’ve a whole publish about this expertise, however we had the chance to check out six totally different spots with tons of gluten-free choices. I’d by no means had a gf Nutella-filled croissant and it set my soul freeeeee. This was in all probability in record of prime 10 finest issues I’ve ever eaten. Barcelona has SO MANY gluten-free choices and devoted gluten-free kitchens. Our information informed us that it’s top-of-the-line locations to journey and dwell in case you have Celiac or are gluten delicate/illiberal.

Bloome by Sasha

That is a completely gluten-free brunch spot with pancakes, avocado toast, bowls, and pastries, utilizing natural and recent elements. I might eat right here weekly if we lived in Barcelona. They’ve a few areas so in the event you’re planning a go to, I positively advocate checking it out.

Lokal Bar

This was near our resort, and had nice critiques and Spanish tortilla on the menu – I used to be on a mission to search out one of the best one haha – and we went and shared a bunch of tapas one night time. The tortilla had truffle oil (ommmggg) and the cheese platter was beautiful.

Roots & Rolls

One of many highlights of our journey was seeing my good friend Sara! We used to show collectively at Canyon Ranch and have stayed in contact regardless of strikes everywhere in the nation. OG weblog reader associates would acknowledge her from our Soli Beat video, weblog exercise movies and Summer season Form Up! She’s completely superb — probably the most constructive individuals I do know and I really like any likelihood we’ve got to catch up.

We met up along with her and her husband for a tremendous vegan sushi, gluten-free choices, ramen, pad thai, and so on. The meals was glorious and the corporate was one of the best half 🙂

In case you dwell in Barcelona or go to, she owns the primary assisted stretching studio in Spain: Stretch Eden.

Barcelona resort suggestions

We stayed at two totally different lodges in Barcelona: Royal Ramblas earlier than the cruise, and Room Mate Carla after the cruise.

(had the resort health club to myself)

It was cute as a result of it was the women and myself, so we every ended up having our personal little mattress in every spot. It’s price mentioning right here that I virtually at all times e book our lodges free of charge utilizing bank card factors. We use our Amex Platinum for every part, and it offers us so many perks, like lounge entry, purchasing credit, factors again for on a regular basis purchases, credit for his or her High-quality Accommodations assortment, Uber credit — I LOOOOVE this factor. In case you’re fascinated with getting one, my referral link is here and I’m comfortable to assist with any questions! More about how we use points for travel in this post. 

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There are lots of totally different excursions and locations to go to in Barcelona, together with the well-known Boquat de Mercaria, La Sagrada Familia, tons of museums, and beautiful seashores. I might have liked to have a museum day, however the children have been toast after the cruise. (I’m a little bit bummed that we missed our Sagrada Familia tour, however we’ll positively be again!) We shopped, visited just a few totally different markets, explored the outside of Sagrada Familia,

and made it over to the White Rabbit museum, which was an enormous hit.

White Rabbit blends Catalan tradition with immersive experiences, together with projection rooms, digital actuality, lights, and sculptures. If in case you have children and are touring to Barcelona, I extremely advocate it.

Is Barcelona protected?

Our cab driver warned us about pickpockets and informed us which areas to keep away from, however I by no means felt unsafe whereas we have been there. I felt a lot safer than I do in lots of components of the USA and I feel like something, it’s about being conscious of your environment and staying the place are different individuals round. Keep in well-lit and pretty populated areas, know the place you’re going, and hold your belongings near you. (I’ve been sporting this handy Amazon bag this whole journey.)

The purpose of this exploration journey we’ve been on

I went into this journey with the intention of spending high quality time with children, seeing new locations, and taking a while to totally recharge after a fairly grueling begin to 2025. I additionally began off this journey on the lookout for… a spot to dwell. I felt like I might need readability with *one good spot* and Barcelona has been the closest. It has the large metropolis really feel we love (tons of purchasing, handy, so many gluten free choices and implausible eating), however with smaller charming neighborhood pockets. We have been particularly keen on the Grácia neighborhood. I don’t know if we’ll really ever extra from Tucson, however we’ve been contemplating totally different choices and maintaining our eyes open. 🙂

Have you ever been to Barcelona? What’s your #1 favourite place to journey in the summertime?

xoxo

Gina