Camino Barcelona Blog

Hello everybody!!

How are you all doing??

Today is a very nice day here in Barcelona! I’m also very happy because I am going to Italy for some days to visit my family and friends there!!! But even if I will be on holidays, I would first like to give you some tips for these days…

Today I’m going to talk to you about three novels, which action is set here in Barcelona, had a huge success internationally and I highly recommend to everybody!

As you probably know, I really love books and I hope one day I could have my own publishing house!

These 3 books I am going to talk to you about are not part of my academic studies, as I read them during my free time, but I definetly loved them! The books are:

“La Sombra del Viento” (”The shadow of the wind”) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón; “Nada” (”Nothing”) by Carmen Laforet and “La Catedral del Mar” ( “The Cathedral of the sea”) by Ildefons Falcones.

All these 3 writers are from Barcelona and they give very accurate descriptions of the city in 3 different historical periods. (more…)

Hello everybody!!!

Here I’m back again with some news about places, where to go, what to do and “Where-can-I-learn salsa” in Barcelona!

In this very last period, salsa seems to be very “popular” here and lots of students at school also ask us about “salsotecas” an places where they can take some classes!

After having talked with some of them, the most popular ones are: (more…)

Hello everybody!!!

How are you doing? I hope you all had a nice weekend!

Here we are back again with our school activities. This week we have a very ‘musical’ set of activities, mainly all related to Flamenco!!!!

MONDAY 18, 15:00

COPA DE BIENVENIDA

As usual, we start the new week with our well-known welcome party for all our new students at school!! Come and join us for some snacks and drinks! That’s the best opportunity to get to know everybody at school!

TUESDAY 19, 14:00

WORKSHOP: SPANISH THROUGH MUSIC

In this workshop you will practise your Spanish through Spanish music. We will listen to flamenco, pop, rock songs… (more…)

Hola a todos!

How are you all doing?

I hope you all had fun during Carnaval!

And now, it’s time for Easter and we are supposed to eat a little bit less…but the problem here in Barcelona is that there are too many goods restaurants!!!

Here you can find some of my favourite ones!

If you want to have some very good Catalan “tapas” (appetizers), the “Cerveceria Catalana” is the right place for you! (more…)

Hola a todos!

Today I am going to talk to you about something that’s not so amazing, but very useful for all the students studying in Barcelona.

Based on my personal experience as a university student here in Barcelona, I can tell you that there are so many libraries where you can study, consult books, borrow music or read specific magazines!

Basically, I used to spend most of my time at the Univeristy libraries but I discovered that you can easily get a card in any of the public city libraries instantly! With this card you can check on internet the books you want and reserve them to borrwo, surf the web on the wi-fi area, read magazines in the confortable ‘reading area’ …

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As Daniel has already told you, this week on Thursday 31st January, we will go to the Barcelona Football Club Stadium - ‘Nou Camp’ to watch the football match for the “Spanish Cup” quarter finals between Barça and Villareal!!!

As many of you probably know, it seems that Barça is not going to win the Liga (Spanish Premier League) this year. Some people say it is because of their irregular game and all the physical problems that some of its players, like Ronaldinho or Deco, had. And as the Champions League is also “travelling” to other countries Barça should better think about winning at least the Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup)!!! (more…)

Hello everybody!

If you are thinking about coming to Barcelona within the next 2 weeks, I’m happy to tell you that Carnival celebrations are coming here and they are expected to be as spectacular as ever!

As many of you probably know, I’m from Venice and our Carnival is maybe one of the most famous ones all around the world! People usually start to prepare their own costumes and masks the year before, just after the Carnival, in order to be ready for it!

However, also here in Spain there will be such big celebrations and one of the best places to go is Sitges! This city, located near Barcelona, besides being famous for its wonderful beaches, is also well-known fro its unique Carnival, the second one in Spain in terms of dimensions and parties, after Tenerife! (more…)

Hello everybody!

If you like musicals and if you like the music of the 1970s-1980s this is the best opportunity for you!

In Barcelona, the musical “Mamma mia!” will be on stage until the beginning of March 2008 at the “Teatro Musical” in the Sants-Montjuic district!

I saw this musical 5 years ago in the city of San Francisco (USA) and I can just tell you that I didn’t stop dancing for a second! You can’t miss it!

The project of this musical was created by two former members of the musical group Abba, whose songs like “Mamma mia”, “Dancing queen”, “Gimme gimme” spreaded out during the 1970s-1980s. And you can find all these super hits here! (more…)

Hello folks!

Here I am back again to tell you about our cultural activities programme for the next week!

MONDAY 21ST, 3:00 P.M:

“COFFEE @ THE “CAFE CENTRAL” AND A WALK AROUND THE CITY CENTRE

We will take a walk with Alex (the teacher) and a coffee at the “Café Central”. This is your chance to get to know the city centre and everybody here at school!Come and join us!

 TUESDAY 22ND, 2:45 P.M.

“WORKSHOP: ALMODÓVAR AND THE MOVIDA“

We will talk about the cultural movement of the “Movida Española”, which characterized the 1980s in Spain, and one of its main characters: the film director Pedro Almodóvar.

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Hello people!

Do you want to know what is on this week in Barcelona?

From tomorrow and until Friday 18th January, Barcelona opens its doors to the fashion industry with a big event called “Bread and Butter: King Size”, which takes place in the Feria de Barcelona (metro stop “Plaza de España”, L3, green line).

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