Cool Things to do in Barcelona

Barcelona, Sonar Festival 2006 accomodation: Apartments, Hotels, Hostels or even renting a tent! The Barcelona Sonar festival 2006 of electronic music. House, techno and chill out music, loads of international DJ’s performing, and multimedia projections take over Barcelona for a week in the middle of June. Two parts make out this festival: Sonar by Day and the Sonar by Night .

The Sonar by Day is held at CCCB, MACBA, Centre d’Art Santa in the Raval district of Barcelona. The Sonar by night takes place in the Hospitalet de Llobregat - Fira 2.

Foreigners from all over the world come to Barcelona to experience this unique festival. If you are an advanced music fan, do not miss the Sonar festival .

But the big question appears every year… Where the hell is it possible to find a place to sleep in those days? Barcelona goes crazy during Sonar festival and hotels are fully booked, apartments goes to the highest bidder, and people sell tents for people to sleep in parks or on the beach…

So… My recommendation would be to get my finger out the belly button and find a place right now… Look at Cheap Accommodation Online they have affordable accommodation online.. under 30 euros a night guaranteed!

Other online accomodation sites are Sleepsi or Apartmentsi ! Good sites but more expensive, and higher level.. they call it sleep 4 star for the price of 3 stars. They sell excess capacity of hotels, getting special negotiated prices… pretty cool!

well.. good luck with the hunting guys… see you at the Sonar Festival 2006!!!

For a nice little free peek at some of (or most of-) the hottest designer furniture in the world, VITRA provides a great little exhibition of just that in their cool shop in Barcelona.

This I think is a cool way of checking out great furniture by famous designers… as Vitra Design Museum puts it:

The original intention of the Museum to give visitors access to design not only by means of publications, but also in the form of three-dimensional objects, resulted in the creation of a unique museum product: models of the most important pieces of furniture in design history on a reduced scale. The Miniatures of the Vitra Design Museum are exemplary teaching objects with regard to quality and craftsmanship, and also iconic manifestations of the Museum Collection. They not only fulfil the financial purpose of contributing to the Museum’s budget, but also serve as ideal demonstration pieces within the context of academic studies or skilled trades. Among design connoisseurs, the Miniatures of the Vitra Design Museum have become coveted collector’s items. At present, the Miniatures Collection encompasses almost 100 different models, which are sold in exclusive design shops all over the world.

 To name a few exiting designs shown at vitra:

eames collection
nelson collection
prouvé collection
noguchi collection
panton collection
meda collection
bellini collection
citterio collection
vitra standards
morrison collection
vitra edition
air line

And much more…

In case you want more information check out vitra.com

Great fashion shop on C/ de Comerc, Emphasising heavily on cult youth or street wear from all over the world, but also quite a few local artists and designers. Moreover the Iguapop shop are very much into cool chill out music, from well-known as well as not that well known artists!

Why go there: First of all they have the rebajas at the moment, where you can find great offers on handmade bags from Pinzat, or adidas shoes with art from local artists on them. Furthermore it is very inspiring to go to the Iguapop Shop… If not inspiring enough.. go to the Iguapop Gallery next door!

Where: C/ de Comerc in El Borne

M 69 is a nice little fashion shop in Barcelona… or 3 that is, as they just opened their third shop in Borne!

They started the shops to only have mens fashion, and (don’t quote me for this) I think gay fashion, otherwise they wouldn’t call Eixample for Gaixample would they now? Anyways, they wanted their shop to have design clothes for the man of the 21 century… And eventhough we heard that song before… it is kinda cool!

But before we get all too naive here, the name of the shop is explained by the owners Albert and Jordi, as: “M is your name, 69 is your favourite position!” Well to me it can get a bit too gay… but hey… those two guys don’t run the shops anymore… Propably sipping mojitos somewhere in gay heaven or whatever…

So, back to the shops, for men who “knows elegance and where to find it!”

In the shops you’ll find brand names such as:
Glamour, Encanto, Converse All Star, Havaianas, Paul Smith, Puma, Bikkemberg, E.Play, Amaya Arzuaga, Bosfresh, Evisu, Freitag, Geda, Kee, Dnim, Kulte, Miro Jeans, Plata, Replay and Seal… and much, much more!

So, you’ll find jeans, pants, shirts and shoes for the fashion victim, but also accessories, books and music!

Tot Formatge at Passeo del Borne is the coolest cheese shop in Barcelona… maybe even the world… I have never seen a cheese shop this nicely designed! And they have everything in here from Danish Bluecheese to the famous spanish goat cheeses or Manchego (from La Mancha), the Ronchal which are sheeps milk cheeses often aged up to 2 years, the famous Mont Enebro which is not very presentable but tasts like a piece of heaven… Perfect to heat up and put in a club sandwich…. and many more exquisite cheeses!

So…. even if you’re not the biggest cheese afficionado, hold your breath and check out this cool shop

Find it at PG. del Borne

Please… if you do dissagree with my oppinions, please write a comment, stating for example, why this is not the coolest cheese shop in Barcelona… or other oppinions! The more different oppinions, the more visitors to Barcelona will benefit from this blog!

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