Spain travel guide from Tiger x Daphne

Spain

Dec 9 - arrive at 7:45pm
Dec 10 - check in to new hostel
Dec 11 - before 3pm - Park Güell 9:30am + Vinitus
Dec 12 - before 3pm - Airbnb cooking class 11:00 AM–2:30 PM
Dec 13 - before 3pm - lunch with ex-coworker 1pm at Café Floh & move to Airbnb
Dec 14 - before 3pm - rest day
Dec 15 - before 3pm - check out Airbnb
Dec 16 - Gaudi buildings, check out at 11am, check in at Barcelona Bed and Bike Hostel 2pm, La Sagrada Familia guided tour at 16:15pm + church at 15:45pm+ eat at bicos
Dec 17 - bike tours, Casa Batilo, eat snails, 8pm escape room
Dec 18 - Montserrat Monastery day trip
Dec 19 - check out at 11am, churros hot dog, Vinitus, Ciutadella Park, train to Madrid is 9:25pm

Get T-mobilitat transit card at airport and load on T-casual pass. The pass loads onto the card, used to be a printed magstripe ticket that was phased out. There’s also a “Hola Barcelona” pass but that’s more expensive than the regular passes. If we were staying longer the T-usual would also be a good choice.
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/15M70ccoaCqeiw0cfztuiWD8pKOvDSD09j_tpayClCEo/edit?usp=sharing

⭐ Montserrat Monastery (2 hours away + 3 hour hike - book tix https://barcelonalowdown.com/visiting-montserrat-from-barcelona/
- Book online and pickup pass downtown
Sewers of Barcelona - book through La Fabrica del Sol (buy tickets - emailed but replied in spanish so we’re going to skip)
Escape Rooms are more action focused than puzzle focused. https://www.escaperumors.com/2019/08/best-escape-rooms-in-barcelona.html
- We booked “Abduction 3: The Exam” for 8:00 pm on Dec 17
Park Güell - Antoni Gaudi ‘s park (buy tickets, go in the morning) - Locator number: 700181631721
Paella cooking class - La Rambla, 91 Barcelona, Barcelona España tour with Elias
La Sagrada Familia - Basilica (buy tickets)
- Sagrada Família with Guided Tour
- there are 3 times available so i’ll until the others

Food
- Vinitus - Tapas, get honey cod (no reservation) - 11am-1am
- Granja Dulcinea - Churros and hot chocolate
- Cerveceria Catalana - tapas (no reservation) - 8:30am-1am
- Can Cargolet - snails
Not doing
- Stroll along La Rambla
- Christmas markets - Fira de Santa Llúcia and Santa Lucia (has views) or outside of Sagrama Familia
- Gran Teatre del Liceu or Palau de la Música Catalana - opera house (buy tickets)
- mosaic class
- make Espadrilles Shoes
- No opera since we’ll reserve for Italy
- Picasso museum free Thursday afternoons from 5.00pm to 7.00pm, First Sunday of each month (buy tickets)

Dec 19 - arrive at 11:55pm
Dec 20 - walk in tour with hostel
Dec 21 - Botin at 13:00 for lunch, 7:30pm show with drink no food
Dec 22 - Flamenco dance class 12-1pm, Order cookies baked by nuns in 400 year old monastery (cookies 9:30-13:00 and 16:30-18:15)
Dec 23 - open Toledo trip
Dec 24 - fly out 7:20am

Order cookies baked by nuns in 400 year old monastery - how to, Monasterio del Corpus Christi las Carboneras, open 9:30-13:00 and 16:30-18:15
churros at San Ginés - or look for other churro places
Explore Retiro Park and Puerta del Sol (public square)
Not doing
- Visit the Prado Museum and Reina Sofia Museum, Royal palace
- Toledo city tour
- Brave Bull Ranch
- "ibérico" ham class - $60 per person

not bullfighting season
Topo: big square in an immigrant neighborhood, with a lot of south asian community and asian communities in general. it's not without its rough edges, but i think it's a slice of life to go check it out. and if you go there, there's a big wide staircase on one side of the square, and halfway up. a couple of restaurants where you can just sit and have a drink or whatever. i really like that point, very simple but it's a great view of city life. on that same square there's also a