Barcelona adventures – The Fitnessista

Sharing a few of our favourite Barcelona adventures.

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

For right this moment’s publish, I wished to share some out Barcelona adventures + the place we stayed should you’re planning on reserving a visit. We had been capable of spend just a few nights earlier than and after the Disney cruise and fell in love with Barcelona. In fact it has the beautiful mixture of structure, from Gaudi’s iconic designs to extra fashionable types, Gothic cathedrals and Roman ruins. It additionally has the texture of a large metropolis (as a result of it’s one lol) with sooooo many issues to see and do. We simply may have spent just a few weeks there, and listed here are among 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 had been blown away by so lots of the eating places we tried. They use quite a lot of recent substances and produce, it’s seasoned nicely, parts are excellent (particularly should 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 suitable 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 ladies and I shared fairly just a few various things: hen skewers, Greek salad, sardines, and tortilla. P additionally bought 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 completely 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 listing of high 10 finest issues I’ve ever eaten. Barcelona has SO MANY gluten-free choices and devoted gluten-free kitchens. Our information advised us that it’s among the finest locations to journey and stay you probably 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 substances. I’d eat right here weekly if we lived in Barcelona. They’ve a few places so should you’re planning a go to, I positively suggest checking it out.

Lokal Bar

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

Roots & Rolls

One of many highlights of our journey was seeing my pal Sara! We used to show collectively at Canyon Ranch and have stayed in contact regardless of strikes everywhere in the nation. OG weblog reader mates would acknowledge her from our Soli Beat video, weblog exercise movies and Summer season Form Up! She’s completely superb — probably the most constructive folks I do know and I really like any likelihood we now have 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 forth. The meals was wonderful and the corporate was the very best half 🙂

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

Barcelona lodge suggestions

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

(had the lodge gymnasium to myself)

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

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There are quite a lot of completely 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’d have liked to have a museum day, however the youngsters had been toast after the cruise. (I’m slightly bummed that we missed our Sagrada Familia tour, however we’ll positively be again!) We shopped, visited just a few completely 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. When you’ve got youngsters and are touring to Barcelona, I extremely suggest it.

Is Barcelona protected?

Our cab driver warned us about pickpockets and advised us which areas to keep away from, however I by no means felt unsafe whereas we had been there. I felt a lot safer than I do in lots of elements of the US and I feel like something, it’s about being conscious of your environment and staying the place are different folks 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 complete journey.)

The objective of this exploration journey we’ve been on

I went into this journey with the intention of spending high quality time with youngsters, seeing new locations, and taking a while to totally recharge after a reasonably grueling begin to 2025. I additionally began off this journey in search of… a spot to stay. I felt like I might need readability with *one excellent spot* and Barcelona has been the closest. It has the massive metropolis really feel we love (tons of procuring, handy, so many gluten free choices and improbable eating), however with smaller charming neighborhood pockets. We had been particularly keen on the Grácia neighborhood. I don’t know if we’ll truly ever extra from Tucson, however we’ve been contemplating completely different choices and protecting our eyes open. 🙂

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

xoxo

Gina