everyone keeps talking about Barcelona it's easily one of the trendiest destinations on the planet and I'm starting to see why it's a place where you can go from coastal living to mountains in just minutes it's a place where you can explore Charming European alleys by day catch a live concert by night and the city will never sleep if you keep up with it if you want to know how to travel Barcelona let me show you what's layered between these perfectly shaped grids I can definitely say I understand the hype and you're going to want to watch all the way to the end to get at a real Barcelona Hidden [Music] Gem all right it is time to start our trip in Barcelona with a little Hidden Gem not many people know about this place we're going to keep it between you and I all right don't go leaking this one out this is sagada Familia there's not another building in this planet that looks anything like it something I've seen online for a decade now and I stand before it there's so much detail so much unique intricacy so a little context this is the brainchild the Masterpiece of gudy and gudy is one of the people that shaped Barcelona into the city that it is today he's got several of these incredible pieces around the city this is the most grand and biggest of them I just can't get over all the detail I everywhere you look it's like a different detail and I will say she pry but my goodness this has been a construction site now for over a century literally if you go online they have never officially completed this place and they're back to work again cranes supports and stilts horribly ugly canopies this is the crazy part it's May 5th today it's not even busy season yet here and it's booked out all the way until the 14th of May I'm telling you if you want to see these Things book them before you get here or go to Sunday service and then you can attend for [Music] free Barcelona just has something about it that you don't get in every European city first of all tons of greenery but also a lot of style there's got a bit of a Gothic kind of grungy touch to the city where we're going to take you next you'll get a bit more of the grungy Barcelona this is one of the places designed by gy there's a few of them in Barcelona this park bench was designed by gy and he designed this place but this one we're actually going to go inside so I'm not the museum type but I'm so glad I entered here because this is so for me right now currently I'm building my villa in Bali and so I'm geeking out on architecture cast aatlo was designed by GOI every Square in of this home is a statement not a single straight line I mean just look at this oak door behind me the way it's so three-dimensional and unique One of a Kind no details have been spared I mean even the tiles get darker as you go up gudy even designed this home so that as you get higher up closer to the Skylight your windows shrink in size so that the lighting inside each room was the exact same the home is inspired by Nature with everything from roof shaped like conses seashells the banisters for the staircases are curving like tentacles this guy was not playing by the books and I love it all right we're starving and I've got a place right next door think food court but make it [Music] fabulous yeah this place is a Vibe this place is El naal I've only taken one bite but it definitely got a 10 out of 10 on my first bite test wow that's real the city of Barcelona is at the foot of a few beautiful mountains and on top of one of them is tib davo which is this beautiful cathedral overlooking the entire city it is one of the tallest surrounding mountains and it gets you well above the beauty of Barcelona also it's lowkey a theme park so now if you're not big on hiking you can use the local Airlines to get here Here Comes TBO Airlines they've got one of the shoddiest track records in the area but hey they got a decent leg room [Music] oh I got that on video the moment of Terror and panic you okay oh no I'm not okay I'm traumatized next is a spot I really wanted to see but it wasn't meant to be barkwell is a series of these gingerbread like homes I mean is it just me they look like a gingerbread house now what's inside the gate is a total mystery but those who managed to book tickets say it looks like this like this and this we're going to have to take their word for it because we are yet again empty-handed we are not getting in here today this place is booked out for the next 5 days every single day booked booked booked this is why you watch travel guides let others make the mistakes for you if you show up to Barcelona unprepared just know that you won't get into some of these places but the good news is there's so much more to Barcelona than just the highlights at least I'm telling myself that now wait a second There's Hope the man working security said we might just be able to get a ticket for in 2 days from now come on fingers crossed he says the ticket office is up here but I'm not sure if he's just messing with me but at this point I'm willing to find out we're on Tuesday what did he say because food is such a big part of your experience in Barcelona I wanted to put together the best of the best just the other night we had a phenomenal but very upscale dinner it was almost $100 and we split a burger and a steak it was so worth it fist Mueller is this very amazing experimental restaurant that frankly I can't even compare to anywhere else I've been the food quality was phenomenal and the cheesecake was supposed to be the best but then we found the best now I'm going to show you the best value meal of all of Barcelona and I'll let you in on the best cheesecake but tonight is [Music] Italian oh my gosh so creamy that peino cheese perfect so one thing I will warn you guys about is that Barcelona's food scene amazing but lower your expectations in service no matter where we've been high-end casual everyday restaurants people look like they don't want to be there when you ask for something they don't want to serve you it's truly like we're inconveniencing them at every step of the process everybody's like and then they're like you need to leave we have reservations the place is empty empty I would tell you to stay thank you yeah upset with you Harry's food was good though yeah I'd come back Barcelona has a lot to offer but you wouldn't be getting the full picture if you only stayed here but luckily our friends kaspar and Alina have been living here and they invited us on a day trip just outside the city and it was pretty shocking just 45 minutes later you're driving in these stunning windy Forest roads it was extra cool that I got to be passenger princess in this beautiful Ferrari and we left Barcelona we are in moerat which is this beautiful Escape it's about an hour away by car and it takes us through the most stunning mountains but it brings us here to a place that rubby can so eloquently tell us about where are I don't even know the name oh I don't even know monster at mon said at something that's all I know it's a monastery the monks used to live here it no longer is an act I don't know that's not a fact I don't know I don't know look this isn't the History Channel but I can tell you it's gorgeous these tiny little finger looking mountains with an incredible Monastery that monks might have lived in we don't know but it's worth a visit it is so beautiful in here it's so Grand it feels like you're on top of the world we heard that there's actually a lot of nice hikes in this area so visiting could be more than just sight now easily the most incredible hidden Jam in Barcelona is where I'm about to take you next so I got out my phone for directions but I had no data so like a salmon swimming Upstream I trusted my intuition I don't think this is it this doesn't look like it I guess you could say we're lost hi I'm a traveler and one of the most annoying things us Travelers face is staying connected when we go from country to 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outside of Barcelona nice am I team Caba and I team champagne I'll never tell all right next stop of the day and no trip is complete without a Paya so we just came out here to the outskirts and Barcelona is part of Catalonia Catalonia actually speaks katala which is a totally different language than Spanish so when we came here Not only was the menu not in English or in Spanish it was in Catalan the servers don't speak English or Spanish for that matter and so it was very funny trying to order food but in the end the food was good PA was good and I'm stuffed nice trip out to Wine Country a nice trip out of Barcelona and back into the city we go getting around Barcelona is super easy you got a couple of options you got this this or that that man is on AO using an app you can rent these pastel colored Vespas basically all over the city the downfall is you need an international driver's license or a European driver's license and you'd probably think to yourself Christian you're an international traveler you're a man that's seen the world you must have an international driver's license but you'd be mistaken and so we resort to these for a major city it's actually pretty hard to get a taxi here there there's very few the ones that are coming by they're all full and they don't have Uber here basically Uber is an app you can use to book the meter taxi but even still nobody's confirming my ride oh yeah and there's this Subterranean [Music] bus okay another day in Barcelona so I started my morning with an epic coffee for any coffee connoisseurs out there you got to check out this place the flavors the staff and the experience 10 out of 10 later we tried a top rated brunch called Billy brunch and my meal tasted like it was an amazing meal 24 hours ago it was stale and I was super disappointed not great but Redemption time hit hard this is classic Barcelona somebody took an old parking garage and turned it into something beautiful this is parking pizza and it is booming the food is fantastic the pizza is phenomenal and the tiasu is so good we're still talking about it today here we are it is just about Sunset and it's a beautiful opportunity to get out solo I'm listening to an audio book right now called fight right amazing book by the way if you're in a relationship or ever want to be in one which I do recommend and here we are this is the gothic quarter of barcalona look at that that's Cathedral Barcelona and she is beautiful looks a lot like the notra dam Basilica in Paris just a little bit a lot smaller and a lot pointier so beautiful live music people out enjoying the summer this is definitely what Barcelona's all about just behind the church is an area known as the gothic quarter and this is the old old part of this very old city so as we go through the gothic quarters you're seeing a lot of massive stone walls basically blocking out the daylight it's a very different feeling from the rest of Barcelona from the upscale Las ramblas but I've taken you guys somewhere that Picasso used to frequent you see that right there that ain't just another grungy Barcelona piece that right there is the the former marker of a now because I don't want this video to get demonetized basically what happened inside of here is what we're going to call expensive hugs it's where people used to come gather around hug each other very intimately and then make money off that and our boy Picasso used to come here at least that's what they think because this painting right here was actually said to have been inspired from inside these walls inside here gabasa I think I said that right man if these walls could talk there'd be some stories anyways if you want to see it that's a way to find it and no that's not the reason I left Ruby okay she needed [Music] acupuncture just the other night we went and saw the great the one and only Andrea belli we had the most incredible night seriously guys H it was an amazing venue but most of all an amazing concert he had violinists he had dancers singers what more could you ask for that's one of the beauties of being in big cities in Europe you get that extra oomph of culture of music and I mean just look at that how beautiful look I don't know where to put this but I got to let you in on this when I travel I love to find hole in the wall spots and I think we just found one everyone claims their Grandma makes the best cookies well mine didn't she made salmon but if she did I imagine it would have tasted something like this we got a little hooked and came back the next day later that night we went to a flamco show which is not from from Barcelona but is a rich part of Spanish culture we went here to palao de la mus and this is one of the most amazing venues lots of tapping a lot of vocals that are frankly quite unusual and overall a greater understanding of Spain the nextos so if you watch pretty much any travel guide to Barcelona they're going to tell you to go to La bukara and that is the traditional Market basically picture old school European building with tons of different stalls full of food but it's not that you shouldn't go it's just that we're just kind of wanting food we want to cut down our cost while here in Barcelona this next week and when every single meal is averaging around 50 for the two of us it definitely would be nice to eat at home so we've come to what locals will tell you is the better option finding your hey finding your local market because there's a few major ones in Barcelona So today we're here at a bit of a no-name market to find some very delicious food this is where the local barcelon Ian I don't know if that's how you would say it but local barcelonian would shop I Tred the Cherry M good all right we're going to be eating [Music] good now this is a little Hidden Gem but it's my personal favorite chef and restaurant in all of Barcelona it's rubies and today we took a little road trip a little outing to get outside of Barcelona and into the beautiful beach town of gath this area is where a lot of the famous footballers live up in the mountains in their hideaways their Villas and it's a much more chilled Pace here tiny little beach front restaurants and [Music] beaches now while this guide sets you up for just about everything you can know as a traveler the missing piece here is going to be NTI and right now I'm actually standing right in front of barceloneta those venues right there those are some of the biggest nightclubs in the world right behind me there and Barcelona comes to life at night it's not something we're going to be able to get into in this one but if that's what you're after you're in the right City there's a lot to do and this city doesn't sleep listen when you travel as a couple you make compromises I know the thing I compromise is I end up sing in lines for desserts with Ruby but that's a line this is uh no Hidden Gem but we're on a tear here to see who has the best cheesecake in all of the land and we've had a lot of great cheesecakes so we got one last rival and then I can conclude the best cheesecake in [Music] Barcelona look when I have to wait 40 minutes for a piece of cheesecake and there's no seating you better believe the expectations are up here this better be the best cheesecake otherwise I'm about to wreck John cak's life oh my gosh I think the other cheesecakes we've had are way better sometimes the Instagram Trends Lead You astray but you know who would never lead me down the dark dark Road of disappointment he said this was the best on the menu we got pork cheek with carrot he wasn't lying either that is so tender this is why you come taste buds were exploding Ruby's eyebrows were dancing this was a 10 out of 10 meal and the best value meal we had of all of our stops except maybe this one after having tiasu and cheesecake and all of the different restaurants the best tiasu goes to parking pizza and the best cheesecake €33 each is absurdly good value on that meal right there get AO at [Music] Som so you remember 2 days ago when we were rejected entry into the gates of parkw well never give up kids look where we're standing we made it on the other side of the gate like I got the golden tickets to Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory here these things hard to come by let's see if it's worth the hype so I think you're starting to see a bit of a pattern here this is yet again another one of G's works this is brainchild you can see these very creative structures and uh we're just a few feet into the park all right Pro tip whenever you want to make things just 100% more magical throw in an airpod just one open up your music platform of choice and play right Andrea [Music] belli everything is crooked and poorly finished I'm starting to think this is just a cover up it was built by Spanish [Applause] people it's a pretty Park and it only cost €1 to come in but I will say it's not a must in Barcelona at least in my books if you're somebody that needs to check off all of the highlights of one different City to feel like you've truly been there you'll want to come let's go to the beach and in my opinion the thing that makes the city truly incredible is having access to a beach and this is barceloneta the long beautiful beach that goes basically across the city and it's actually really pretty I feel like it's the cherry on top to what makes Barcelona so amazing you've got mountains you've got Beach you've got tons of food amazing European city living but there's one thing I need to show you before we leave this amazing City and go to Paris let's go so 30 minutes from the beach up into the mountains we're taking you somewhere really special a local told me about this spot so get ready we're almost there and we brought friends woo we're with our B friends in [Music] Barcelona so these are the Barcelona bunkers wow this is epic don't get me wrong I love traveling cities but sometimes they miss that grit that extra little fun adventure and when you got to jump a fence kind of makes it a bit more adventurous so enjoy Barcelona Let's Get Lost again in the next one