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Full Food Experience: Try 1 Cooking Class in Barcelona, Spain with @bcnKITCHEN #TBEX

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Try a Cooking Class in Barcelona
Try a Cooking Class in Barcelona

Try a Cooking Class in Barcelona

When you visit a city that you have never seen before, you have a tendency to visit the typical tourist destinations.  Maybe it’s perusing a museum, a site of historical significance or a tourist trap (try and forgo those…).  Maybe you will avoid the tourist traps but you inevitably do many things that are on the beaten path.  Whatever your adventures may be, you always want to have an overall cultural, historical and culinary experience.  That is the main reason many of us travel.  For the experience.  For us, there is no more important task at hand than to immerse ourselves in the food experience: the taste of local dishes and specialty beverages. 

When Lauren and I  were in Spain we had the chance to try a cooking class in Barcelona at the bcnKITCHEN, a local cooking school.  The workshop included a morning of shopping and an afternoon of cooking.   I have to admit, being a first-time traveller to Barcelona, I was not keen on spending the better part of a day in a kitchen cooking.  Was I ever wrong… this had to be one of the best experiences that we had travelling together.  There is nothing like learning how to cook an authentic Catalan meal to inspire you to take a little bit of Barcelona culture and try it at home. 

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Fun Barcelona Graffiti Tours – Discovering Diverse Street Art

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Barcelona Graffiti Tour

What I love about travelling is that it’s such a great opportunity to learn something new. You can learn a lot about a city through its food, music, architecture, people and most certainly its art. One of my favourite parts of our trip to Barcelona was getting to go on a tour around the city discovering some of its most unique pieces of street art! 

Grafitti Tour Barcelona @DownshiftingPRO_Street Art
Street Art in Barcelona with Trip4Real

When you visit a historic city like Barcelona, you may be inclined to look for the usual, the standard fair: museums, plazas, monuments and churches.  We have a tendency to go with what we ‘know’ but it is also interesting to find the art and culture of a city where people live, work and play.  Walking through city streets can be a window into the culture. This is a great opportunity for a Barcelona graffiti tour.

Art can be found in many different forms in a cosmopolitan city but one of the most contemporary forms of expression is graffiti or street art.   Personally, I find that street art really gives a city personality. I saw a lot of it when I was in South America, especially in Colombia’s capital city,  Bogota, where graffiti is much more accepted than in North America and the streets are full of colourful murals. Barcelona certainly has its own active street art/graffiti scene and it was really fun taking a walk around the city and learning so much about it with our tour guide from trip4real.com.

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