Barcelona

Search ambrose, jed, and Philip Sherburne.

Lawrence/Sten from Kompakt is playing on Saturday night.

I LOVE Barcelona. :(

some others
cos i am so vain, i love to see my name in pixels

ps i lived there a year ago exactly *sniff* so maybe days of wee kare a bit out of date.

to cut a long story short, nitsa is a must go to, although a bit crowded, moog is meant to be good but never got there, razmatazz is insanely big and weird.

There's a fantastic crepe place in Gracia. It's on C. de Torrent de L'olla, just near Travessera de Gracia.

Also you might want to go and get a beer and some tapas in Place del Sol; the best place is in the north-east corner of the square.

There's a kinda quaint Absynthe bar down in La Raval (ie the area east of La Rambla). It's in C. de Sant Pau... it's a bit creepy walking down there at night, but just head down to the third left from La Rambla, it's on that corner.

i cant believ u went to suzette adam!!!! tht is insane, glad u enjoyed it. i cant believ iused to be able to just toddle along to somewhere like that, if the fancy took me. fucks sake.

This is pretty close to what happened to me when I was in Barcelona.

I need some help from those who know about Barcelona. Made a last minute decision to go to Sonar with my gf and we need a hotel/flat. Obviously tons of places are booked out, I have about 20 loquo enquiries pending at the moment on apartments.

It looks a bit like we might have to stay in a hotel, even tho it's a bit pricier. Yet the area stuff is a bit confusing, is Avenue Diagonal near the city? Seem to be lots of hotels around there.

It's an easy walk and a nice area - you'd be fine around there dude

It says 20 mins by Metro. Is it walkable? That seems fine if so.

My main worry is being at an event/club and wanting to go home and it being impossible.

It's a while since I was there but when I was I barely got the metro at all and just wandered.

diagonal is v long

where is sonar abouts?

when i went in 05, i'd only got a bed in a hostel booked for the first night - on the second day i wandered down the road by the sea and within a few blocks found a free (and much better!) room for the rest of my stay. you'll be fine!

ronan be aware that the metro stops running around 1AM (i think), but there's an excellent system of night buses (called "nitbus" if im remembering correctly) that gets you around btw 1 and around 4:30.

I'm not actually going to Sonar itself, but various clubs maybe. Or maybe just two different events on Saturday most likely.

i was there filming during sonar 04, and we made zero plans for accomodation, and found a hostel near the top of la rambla in about a half hour of walking around. easy peasy. in less touristy areas it'd be even easier, i suspect.

yeah the thing is I sort of need somewhere nice as opposed to a post-drug crypt.

I've been twice and apartments were always fairly inexpensive and central. Nothing fancy but not shitholes either. Just stuck Barcelona and apartments into the goog. Always went with 3 or more and booked quite a bit in advance tho. So this post isn't much use probably. I am staying in a hostel this time, not looking forward to it, I need to watch tv in my underwear on a comedown or it just doesn't feel right.

are you going to the efdemin thing on sat night, ronan, and have you tried craigslist?

are you going to sonar, czn?

only by day

what the fuck does that mean

They have by day and by night. By day is in the CCCB-MACBA. The night time thing is a big rave in a soulless disused airport thing on the outskirts.

: )

I think Sebo K/Ewano P/Philo S on the Saturday.

And some Mobilee party in the daytime on the Saturday.

I'll try Craigslist. We found a nice hotel for a reasonable price that is 2 miles outside the city centre. Reckon I might just go for that since literally every single site I tried for apartments is booked out.

sebo k/ewan p/phil s are all playing mit efdemin : )

People are going to be staying in the area by Sonar by Day behind the Boqueria etc to one side of the Ramblas so my suggestion is to find somewhere in Eixample or Gracia; also try near the zoo and market at the southernmost point of the Eixample street grid - shady, cool, and surprisingly cheap. A lot of the hostel accomodation is in lovely rooms but no aircon. There is also a boutique hotel around the corner from Vincon that might also suit but it might be...expensiveish, but not outrageous. Maybe a treat is in order for you?

do you know the name of the hotel? at the moment I'm pretty close to booking a place that looks really nice, which is around 430 euro for both us for the three nights, seems good value even if it was a crappy hotel.

(which it isn't. this place is dead nice)

It's either OMM or Gallery - both are on Calle Rossello just off Passeig de Gracia, and pretty much opposite one another. I'm pretty sure that Sonar artistes get placed at these places or at the Hotel Arts on the beach. Which is handy for the Kompakt afterparty.

ronan, you could try <a href="http://www.hostalgrau.com/php/index.php&quot;>hostal grau</a> where meg and i stayed a couple of months ago, BUT it is like 10 ft from macba-cccb so possibly booked up already...

http://www.hostalgrau.com/php/index.php

obv. stupid ilxcode...

Dudes who have been to Barcelona recently, where is good to hang these days? Am going tomorrow for a few days, staying in the Southern bit of the Eixample. Bar and restaurant recommendations particularly appreciated.

we went there in june 2010 and this was my favorite bar/restaurant hands down. huge selection of freshly prepared tapas & beers galore

Cervecería Catalana

Address : Mallorca, 236
Zip code : 08008
City : Barcelona - Spain
Area : Eixample right
Opening hours : From Monday to Friday from 8ham to 1:30am. Saturday and Sunday they open at 9ham. Closed for Christmas.
Prices : 20€
Phone : +34 932 160 368
Metro/Bus : Metro: L3 Passeig de Gràcia

why these people are drinking soda pop I can't imagine - must be americans :)

http://www.barcelona.com/var/plain/storage/images/barcelona_directory/restaurants/tapas/cerveceria_catalana_in_barcelona/cerveceria_catalana/3866507-1-eng-GB/cerveceria_catalana_large.jpg

Le Cucina Manderosso

http://www.lecucinemandarosso.com/

Run by and Italian/Catalan Couple; one of the absolute best italian restaurants I have been to anywhere in the world.

Matt will you still be there next Tuesday? I'm there for primavera sound

also.. Cervecería El Vaso de Oro if you haven't been... good vibes good food try the foie and steak even if it's 20 euros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zBxmsE7zw

Total RFI, it looks like I've been accepted to the University of Barcelona to do a Master's Degree, so will be there for around eighteen months if everything goes well. I've never been to Spain before. If anyone has some tips of sorting out long-term accomodation for a start that would be great.

the reddit wiki is pretty helpful

Now someone's driven a van into a large group of people in Barcelona. Other reports of armed men in a restaurant. Developing story.

Frightening. Spanish police now call it a terrorist attack.

(at first I feared it would be Ernai, the organisation who are protesting against too many tourists, which is catching on like wild fire in Barca and Spain. Though maybe that too could fall under terrorism idk)

DIRECTO| Ha habido un tiroteo en el mercado de la Boquería https://t.co/BctLopLm3p #atropello #Barcelona pic.twitter.com/Ue9quYInyU

— El Periódico (@elperiodico) August 17, 2017

El Periodico reporting shots now too

Two dead reported, but I just saw terrible footage with bodies lying left and right...

Fuck! Just got off the phone with my Tia who was there. Got locked into a store as soon at it started. So fucking pissed right now

I heard a radio reporter locked in a store just now, too, who had several others there. Hope your tia is ok.

Ack, close friends on holiday there right now.

Woman I work with is over visiting her parents.

Frightening. Spanish police now call it a terrorist attack.

(at first I feared it would be Ernai, the organisation who are protesting against too many tourists, which is catching on like wild fire in Barca and Spain. Though maybe that too could fall under terrorism idk)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, August 17, 2017 8:54 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ernai is a basque abertzale group coming out of batasuna, eta, sortu etc. but its anti-tourist actions are not of the murderous variety (and take place in the basque country).

they let her out she is on her way home now. we are going to be there next fucking week for a wedding . fuck this shit

I got my anti-tourism groups mixed up, you are absolutely right. (and indeed they aren't murderous, it's just that the anti-tourism brigades have been in the news here a lot)

xp

The incident took place directly outside two kosher restaurants and near the entrance to the historical Jewish quarter.

There are reports of armed men being holed up in a restaurant, presumably with hostages, but only single sourced. Horrific.

6 deaths confirmed now, and as matt says reports that two attackers are holding up in a restaurant, possibly with hostages.

horrible.

currently zero about this on US press outlets, which is weird

i'm so disheartened right now

xp received a wapo alert and link awhile ago

the front page of CNN is all about this

13 deaths reported now

fucking hell. have heard my friends are ok, phew.

fuck this is so fucked

The local police have confirmed the restaurant/hostage story isn't true.

BARCELONA UPDATE:
- 13 Dead
- 60 injured
- 1 arrested
- 1 died in a shooting with police
- 1 van abandoned near Vic (70km from Barcelona)

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) August 17, 2017

Oh fuck

Second attack seems to have ended with seven people injured and five suspects killed.

Are the ISIS claims plausible or is this a "bunch of guys"

That's the "take yr pick" question for every one of these ain't it?

instead of tarring previously upbeat location threads we shd probably just start (or bump if there is one) a rolling disgruntled radicals thread maybe

i was gonna say, not that it's a particularly big issue in the context of the revive but i prob would rather my frivolous thread from my university days about a trip to barcelona to take drugs doesn't merge with news of the murder of innocents.

Morbsian rip purity imo

Terrorist attacks throughout Europe

We're going to see the big Bowie exhibition this coming weekend at Museu del Disseny before it closes on Monday. Anything currently going on that's a can't miss?

just wrapped up a great week of travel to barcelona and st sebastian. had one of the truly bizarre experiences of my life today walking 2 miles on foot to el prat amidst thousands protestors and confused travelers and (barely) forcing my way into terminal 1 to catch my flight home.