OK, I know I'm really late with this one, and we're well into the new year - hell, some kids' toys have probably already broken ...

This Christmas, the same as last year, Plaça Catalunya has been converted into a festive Ice Rink called BarGelona - the play on words there...

Christmas is my favourite time of the year. Even more than the summer. I'm just a big kid at heart, and my memories of Christmas as a bo...

As is becoming customary with me, I'll take the kids to see the Christmas lights, Christmas Fair , often the Three Kings , and always th...

As I mentioned last month , Plaça Catalunya has been converted into a Giant Ice Rink, called BarGelona (Gel is "ice" in Catalan), ...

Every year the Feria de Santa Lucia brings a bit of Christmas Cheer to the city - it's a very long running tradition, and what started a...

I wasn't sure I'd be writing practcally the same as I wrote last year regarding the expectations of the nation (practically) on two ...

A recent post in La Vanguardia  has reported that Barcelona council has given the green light to "considering" turning Plaça Catal...

OK, so I'm a few days late, but hey, it's still worth saying. While the majority of Europe has got slowly back into the swing of thi...

One of the many thnings I love about spending Christmas in Spain is the Christmas Lottery draw also known as " El Gordo " - or ...

Well, it's less than 2 weeks to Christmas. Nearly the end of 2010. I don't know about you, but for me, the year seems to have flown ...

Now I know this sounds like bad timing...less than a month to go for Christmas, and I'm already ploughing in with the negativity like a ...

OK, so maybe I'm leaving it late to blog about the Christmas fair in Barcelona as it's already been going since just after advent s...

This month sees the start of the Christmas campaign around the city, with the city lights due to be turned on on the 28th November. With re...

I was walking with my family the other day along Las Ramblas, and we saw a couple of model Camels and people entering the Gallery Space arou...

Christmas is all about the kids, right? You know the feeling as a youngster, the wait up until Christmas Eve with unbelievable excitement. y...

Now, after my recent post on weird Christmas traditions in Catalunya for the Festive Period, and then reading this one, you would be forgiv...

Christmas in Catalunya, and Barcelona in Particular, is not all that different to other Western cultures, with the festive period being a ce...