Sally Davies
@allthingsbarna
'Barcelona's foremost foam analyst' – Bloomberg. 'Credulous' – El Temps. Sketches of Spain for Time Out, Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, Telegraph, Guardian, Times, Indy, Nat Geo & oh loads of others.
Come to Spain and enjoy a refreshing standalone leisure drink in the Plaza Mayor.
This is absolutely correct where 'rampaging' means 'standing on a beach confused, soaking wet and queuing up to go home again'
Not the most nuanced chicken jalfrezi I've ever eaten but, you know, fine.
Can a three-course menú del día for €11.90 be any good? Let's find out.
TFW you check into a hotel late at night on a nondescript stretch of street and then fling open the windows first thing and OH HELLO
Casa Batlló looking radiant and bedecked with roses ready for Sant Jordi tomorrow. That's right, I did just say bedecked. #bedecked
Seriously guys I will translate this stuff pro bono just to not have to look at it every day
Just a few of the superb things I ate at Casa Fiero today. What a find. #Barcelona
Things are kicking off on my street #barcelona #halloween #totssants
My friend is about to get on a flight from Barcelona with a troupe of castellers.
Please enjoy these photos of Lorca and Dalí, friends from the ages of 19 (Dalí) and 25 (Lorca), until Lorca's execution.
Tell me you've never tried sliding a tortilla out of a pan without telling me etc
Old-person rant but omfg yes. An exhausting amount of every press trip is very young people saying 'AMAZING' to really very ordinary things they are too inexperienced to have come across or that are very silly but designed to look cutting edge and clever <oldpersonrantends> nymag.com/intelligence...
So good to be back in the ‘hood, where my local caff looks like this and where a café con leche costs €2.10 despite *gestures broadly at Modernista splendour* #barcelonatravel #modernisme #palaudelamusica
Ryanair to cut a bunch of flights to Spain. I presume* this is also related to the recent ruling in Spain that airlines can't change extra for cabin bags, seats etc. [*but am not sufficiently stirred to find out]
Rachel Kushner brutally unmoved by the charms of Cardona and Girona.
In my new role as Travel Drama Reporter, can I just point out that there is a train on fire at Gatwick station.
Picked this up today and I think "a drunk organist’s nightmare about a Christmas tree" might be my new favourite description of the Sagrada Família ever.