7 DON'Ts in Barcelona (What NOT to Do) 

We spent five weeks in Barcelona from November to January. It was AMAZING. Christmas, empty museums, churches, beaches. Enough of a vibe in restaurants but you could always get a table. Best time of the year. Highly recommend it!!!

I visited the hospital de sant pau last year in october and it was great! No waiting line, not overcrowded of course and so many opportunities for great pictures. Must see!

Loved my late-March trip to Barcelona. Cool mornings & evenings, mild afternoons. Walked all day in comfort with only a light jacket.

Great heads up Thank you 👍

you keep up the good work patrick! ill be there in august!

So interesting! Thanks for the video!

Hi Patrick! Another great video for people coming to Barcelona! I am always giving my friends referrals to your videos before they come to Barcelona and/or Spain and they are becoming great fans of your too! Thank you!

Excellent I'm going in September.

Thank you for the amazing tips! And thank you for the food guide. It is a tad outdated though ;)

Very useful info, will save a lot of disappointment when people arrive in august everything is closed and it is roasting!

We had a lot packed in on our trip but missed the La Hospital de Sant Pau so will have to go on you next trip because your video on that alone was amazing!

Siendo barcelonés y trabajando como guía, me encantan tus vídeos y siempre aprendo tanto de tu punto de vista como a nivel idiomático. Tienen algo diferente que los hace muy agradables y útiles en muchos sentidos. Enhorabuena

People always miss out on Santa Maria del Pi!!!!! Great as always amic. Buy you a vermouth either in Sant Cugat or Gothic?

I remember all of your videos about the SF and telling people about buying tickets before you come because they do not sell at the door. We bought before we left Australia and also booked the early times and what a great choice that was! We got there super early so we could walk around the outside and take pictures before the masses arrived. We saw lot and lots of people asking the security guys where the line was for tickets. We just shook our heads and wished they knew about your video prior to their arrival! Thanks for the SF tips!

Paella is good, but check out fideuà too! It's made of noodles instead of rice. It's harder for solo travellers to find a place that serves paella/fideuà for practical concerns (size of the pan!), but some places like La Paella de Su Diagonal do offer paella for one person. Xiringuito Escribà also offers one only if they are not busy. I signed up for a paella cooking class by Barcelona Cooking in advance, so I got the paella part covered even before flying to Europe. La Hospital de Sant Pau I didn't have time to do, maybe next time.

I’m coming for the second year in a row in august, because I love the heat haha and also for the Gracia festival!

Hi Patrick great video with a summary of key items to avoid. Ramón and Zoe

this guy is so underrated. when i saw that he doesn't have 100k views on each video i was chocked. the quality is there so i dont get why not. maybe it is because its only about a singular city but still

Nice

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We’ll be there in early December and I’m torn between doing La Sagrada first thing in the morning or later afternoon for the light through the windows. How late is okay in early December. Recommendations for time of day at that time of year?

Hi Patrick, I'm planning to visit Bcn in July and I want to book tickets for La Sagrada Familia in advance. Would you recommend booking tickets for the Passion Tower at 7 pm? Since the sun sets at that side of the Passion Tower, I think the view would be better, right?

How about July weather? Is it better than August in hot and humidity or it’s about the same. We are planning to travel first week of July. Thank you

Some great tips here, especially the Sant Pau. My tip would be avoid wearing a Real Madrid shirt unless you want some dirty looks :D

And don’t miss Casa Vicens!!!!! The most beautiful of the famous casas in my opinion. The Hospital is absolutely beautiful.

Mate, I'm coming exactly at 19-24 of August to Barcelona 😅 Unfortunately it's just the only time i can go to a vacation, so... I Trapped 😅

August is very humidity, but not only in barcelona, in all the mediterranean area including all the mediterranean spanish coasr, the islands, Blue coast in France, Italy, Greece ... But the best is not from Novermber to March. This is winter babe, and the temperature can be between 2 or 5 celsius degrees. In august all Spainish people we have vacancies, but its not true the restaurants are closed. I lve in the city babe. Barcelona is prepare for the tourist people and all the center is open, their cacancies are in January. OF course if you go to the residential part in the city, we are out. Catalan of course is not a dialect, is more ancient than spanish, is the secong ancient language in the Iberic Peninsula. But you don't need to know catalan, his is Spain and averybody speak spanish everywhere. Spanish is the most modern language and have around 1.500 old years and the official language for everybody. The other languages was started centuries before. Its like in Italy, there's more than 7 different languages but the language from Florence is what we call Italian, the official language for all the country. Yes, the city is BARNA or BCN, Barça is the football club of the city. We understand english tourist you do not distinguish this things specially from USA. It is a lack of basic culture. Next - If u want to eat the worsts paellas, goes to the Menu of the day hahahaha. The price marks the difference

Nice men

I’ll pretend my honeymoon isn’t booked for August 🙈

Piece of advice don’t go inside la Sagrada familia and park guell, or park guell maybe if you have kids. It’s such a waste of money instead of that money get some paella