Camino Barcelona Blog

Hi there!

Hope you had a great week! Here you have the activities of next week…

Monday 31th of August, at 21.15; Welcome drink

We head off to bar “37 grados” for the traditional Welcome drink. The best way to mingle with old and new students!

Tuesday 01th of September, at 17.00: Workshop on Spanish sayings

… and at 21.15: Open air cinema

This Tuesday we will show the film Nueve Reinas, Nueve reinas is an argentinian movie written and directed by Fabián Bielinsky.
The main actos are Gastón Pauls and Ricardo Darín, this movie is about two con-men that decide to work toghether.

Wednesday 2nd of August, at 17.00: Parque del laberinto de la Horta
It’s the older park of Barcelona with an amazing labyrinth!!

Thursday 14th of AUgust, at 20.30: International dinner on the terrace!
Lets have a dinner toghether to share different typicall food!

I wish you all a good week!

Pierre

Hello fellow wine and food lovers!

Last year I went to CAVATAST, a wine festival celebrated in October in Vilafranca del Penedès.

Even though I live in Barcelona, I hadn’t visited this beautiful city in years and I was happy to see it, so beautiful with a party atmosphere and ready to receive visitors.

We went by train from Sants and the journey was short, we arrived in just 45 minutes. Straight away we were in the fair! They gave us a glass for the tasters with an ingenious device to be worn around the neck. We all looked like professionals! There were plenty of exhibitors from wineries, some very famous like Torres, others much smaller, well-known, unknown, specialists in Cava, white wine, red, rosé… personally I prefer red wine, but the truth is that trying the white wine over and over again has converted me into a fan, the same with Cava. Don’t forget that Vilafranca is where the wineries Codomiu and Freixenet are. You don’t need to reserve a visit but you can turn up on the same day and do everything.

For just a little more than 3 Euros you can try (more…)

Hi everybody!

As many of you probably know the 24th September is the day of ‘La Mercé’!

‘La Mercè (the Virgin Mary) is the Patron-saint of Barcelona. The story tells that on the 24th September 1218, the Virgin appeared to King Jaime I, to San Pedro Nolasco and to San Ramón de Penyafort and that the Pope made her the Patron-saint of Barcelona.

But this story is old and I’m not writing to tell you things you could find in books. Most of all ‘La Mercè’ is PARTY TIME!

To celebrate this event, barcelonian people enjoy it with live concerts, traditional music, dance, theatre, cinemas, street shows, circus and all kinds of different sports, the most famous being drinking!! (more…)

Good afternoon!

Friday afternoon and the Festivals of Gracia, one of the most popular celebrations in Barcelona of more than 100 years of existence, has nearly finished! If you have not yet had the opportunity to go there, do not hesitate one more minutes! You have one more chance!

Jeremy, already introduced in his last blog, is a great fan of this “Fiesta” so I will let him give you his own recommendations. Have fun!!!

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Good afternoon everybody!

I hope that you are all fine and enjoying fully these very sunny days to go to the beach… Lucky you!

My blog today will be a little bit different as I will not speak about the millions of things you can do in the city when it is so warm but will simply give you the comments (and impressions) of a student who knows our school probably as much as we do as she stayed 28 weeks!!! During all this time not only has she attended our Intensive Course, but she has also participated in our DELE Preparation Course and our Business Spanish Course. Waow…

Her name is Adrienne and to give you an idea of how much she has learned while being in Barcelona, Adrienne arrived with some little knowledge of Spanish and left Camino Barcelona with a very fluent Spanish speaking about Politics, Economics, Cinema etc. etc. etc.

Adrienne, it is your turn!

“Hi!

After nearly half a year at Camino Barcelona, I would like to say that it’s the perfect place to make progresses quickly and of course also “disfrutar” (enjoy Barcelona, meet friends and go out. (more…)