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Two Wednesday News 📅

The weather is coming so hot that authorities are thinking about opening public swimming pools earlier and changing school schedules. Meteorologists warn of a high risk of wildfires.

Renting accommodation will become safer: in Barcelona they want to ban unlicensed advertising of tourist apartments. Platforms for renting such accommodation (e.g. Airbnb) will be obliged to provide high quality data and will be subject to more thorough inspection. Already 2 million euros are allocated for such control.

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April 30 — International Jazz Day 🎺

It will be celebrated with 10 hours of free concerts on Passeig de Gràcia. There will be local musicians and jazzmen from Brazil, Africa, Great Britain and the United States.

Free, from 1pm to 10pm.
Address: Passeig de Gràcia amb c. Casp

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Where to drink coffee in Barcelona?

We ask you and tell you about our latest coffee find.

Orval is a place with speciality coffee from the creators of another great place Espai Joliu. It's not just a coffee shop, but also a ceramics studio. There are lots of plants, a rough loft interior, and you can sit and flip through magazines.

Open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends.

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This post is our museum and storage 🇪🇸

Every day we have posts coming out, some of them very useful and applied. They can save you money and help you not get lost in an unfamiliar city. It's easy for posts to get lost in the feed, someone right now is looking for the answer to a question we've broken down step by step here.

So this post will link to important stuff about laws, school, housing, health. It will be updated at least once a month and checked for relevance. In the bookmarks can not save - click on the attached posts quickly moved here. Even split into categories!

⚡️ Base: housing, health, transportation, pet transportation, money
Resources for finding housing.
About the city's transportation system.
Here are places to walk your dog. And here are the walking rules.
This post will save you 200 euros.
About free Renfe passes.
Trash & recycling post.

🏢 Hotels
A hotel that looks like it escaped from the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

📂 Laws, documents, business, work
Useful things for the digital nomad and freelancer.
Job search sites.
Can I get married in Spain?
New housing law.
4 coworkings.
About 90 days rule.

🍱 Food
Supermarkets in the city here.
The best paella.
The country's crowning dishes: a must-try.
Breakfast places: one / two, there are also brunches / if you want a sandwich. Place with coffee and bikes.
A place with a New York roll from TikTok. Here's a place with delicious fast food.
Best pizza in town.
Great coffee place.
Some doughnuts in Barcelona.
Speciality coffee spot.

✈️ Travel, Sports, Recreation
Exploring the Poblenow area.
Villages to go to.
Cool travel destinations: number one / number two
Summer vacation spots and part two.
Destinations for family vacations.
A selection of the best beaches number one / and two
About city parks.
Towns in less than 100 km from citycentre.
5 enclosed urban green courtyards and summer terraces.
Plan for this summer.
What to do with kids in the summer.
Park with a lake.
Catalonia's guide for introverts: part 1 and 2.
5 calm corners of Barcelona.

🇪🇸 Spanish
Work in progress.

🪩 Arts and Entertainment
A selection of bars number one, number two, a secret bar here.
Vintage store, and here's market and flea market, vintage book market.
Beautiful promenade.
Beautiful library.
Free walking tour. Creative city tour.
Cannabis Museum.
Cool hub and community.

🧷 Useful apps and sites
Barcelona Guides. Barcelona apps part 1 and part 2.
Great secondhand.
Here you can buy delicious food from a restaurant nearby at a discounted price.
Services to build routes.
Madrid apps and a second part.
Apps for hiking and sports activities.
Smth useful about heavy luggage.
eSim for travelers.

There are no announcements and jokes here. They easily lose relevance, but they are easily searchable by the tags #humor and #events

Updated July 27. If some information is particularly lacking, you can share the pain and suggest a column at comments
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This post will save you 200 euros 💶

If you live in Spain for more than 3 days, you know that Spanish banks love extra fees and commissions. On and off. Their most favorite fee is the 30-60€ service charge. It's charged per quarter, which means it costs about 200€ per year. Just to have a bank account! Many banks also charge money for transfers, these fees don't even have a limit. So banks can charge as much money as they want.

There are also service fees, which can be charged for every movement you make with your money. For example, for using your card abroad.

Fortunately, there are several banks in Spain that offer commission-free accounts (if certain conditions are met). Here are the best ones:

BBVA Online Current Account
This is one of the reliable banks in the country without fees, about which we wrote above. But the offer is only available for new customers and only for online opening.

Open Bank
Also all free, but only for online accounts. Plus you can withdraw cash for free from more than 7,000 ATMs.

ING: Cuenta Nómina
You can set up a payroll account here (no fees or service charges). You must have an income of at least 700€ (salary, pension or unemployment allowance included) to qualify.

Revolut Standard
The Revolut Standard account has no maintenance fees, commissions or extra charges for transfers. But since Revolut is an online bank, some plans have limits on the amount of cash withdrawals before charging a 2% withdrawal fee.

They also have a number of accounts that, while they have service fees, are much cheaper than regular banks:

Standard account: €0
Plus account: €2.99/month
Premium account: €7.99/month
Metal account: €13.99/month

EVO Smart account
EVO Smart is an online current account with no fees and no conditions, combining a current account and a savings account with an interest rate of 0.6%.

N26 Standard
With an N26 Standard account you can pay for purchases at physical and online stores, use a virtual debit card and transfer money for free. What's the catch? If you want a physical debit card you have to pay 10€ for it.

Santander's Nómina account
The Nómina online account is for young people aged 18 to 29. No fees or commissions, but you must have a regular income of 600€ or more. Otherwise, you will be charged a fee.

Sabadell Nómina account
Sabadell offers an online account with no fees, no management or maintenance fees. The debit card is also free (no issuance or maintenance fees), and although there are no requirements for regular payroll, if you transfer it here, the bank will give you a 175€ bonus.

Complaints and admiration for your bank are welcome in the comments at 👇🏻

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#money
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Important things and changes in Spanish life coming as early as May 🇪🇸

May 1 is a Labor Day weekend.

May 2 is celebrated as Madrid Day. The date of the celebration relates to the anniversary of the May 2, 1808 rebellion against French troops.
Schools will be closed and there will be activities in the streets with music, dancing and theater.

May 7 is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on the first Sunday in May. On this day it is customary to thank mothers and make small pleasant gifts and spend the day with the family.

The pilots of the Spanish airline Air Europa will hold a 4-day strike at the beginning of May (1,2,4 and 5). It will involve from 620 to 640 pilots at all Spanish airports, where Air Europa is based. Hundreds of flights are likely to be cancelled or delayed. Passengers whose flights are cancelled will be transferred to another flight on the same day.

On May 16, judges and prosecutors will go on strike. They believe that the justice system is not being resourced, with judges and prosecutors heavily burdened, affecting both the quality and speed of judicial response and the health of workers.

We recently wrote about the new housing law. It should go into effect at the end of May (around the 28th) if it gets the green light.

There will also be a municipal election on May 28.

Good news about the social security system. There will be a single national phone number to distribute appointments throughout Spain, which will replace the existing provincial numbers. There will be twice as many employees answering the phone. It will be possible to make an appointment in 28 days instead of 7 days.

@wedoobarcelona

#news
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Shall we flee the city?

Just for one day. At least to another city. For the loud «yes» and «finally» today a selection of towns within a radius of less than 100 km from the center of Barcelona. There are medieval towns, towns at the foot of the mountain, gardens, and castles.

Four sites and activities available.

Mura
There's an 11th century castle built on top of a hill with a breathtaking view of the surrounding area.
Walk through the old town, the Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac Natural Park and see the Romanesque church of Santa Maria.

Monistrol de Montserrat
Visit the Monistrol de Montserrat. It is located on the top of a mountain and has a basilica and a museum with paintings by Picasso and Dali.
Take the Santa Cova cable car to the Hermitage.
Take the walking trail through Mount Montserrat.
Go to the Cercle Artístic de Monistrol museum, located in an 18th century manor house.

Arbúcies
Go to the Parque Natural del Montseny.
And to the river Riera d'Arbúcies. You can swim here and walk along the hiking trails.
Take a walk through the old town.
On the way back stop by the Marimurtra Botanical Gardens, 32 kilometers from Arbúsies. It has not only plants, but also a cool view of the Mediterranean Sea.

Sant Martí Sarroca
See the church of San Martí, built in the 12th century.
Go to the Foix Natural Park.
Visit the castle of Sant Martí Sarroca.

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A reminder from Renfe 🚉

The free passes for Cercanías, Media Distancia and Rodalies trains issued for the first 4 months of the year expire May 1, which is today.

Passes for the next 4 months (until August 31) will begin to be valid today. You can buy them in the Cercanías Renfe app, if you want a Media Distancia pass, through the Renfe website. Or at stations and self-service vending machines.

📌 If you forgot (or did not know) how it works:
Although the rides are free, you have to pay a deposit of 10€ (Cercanías and Rodalies) and 20€ (Media Distancia) for the pass. If you pay by card, you can get it back afterwards if you make 16 trips in 4 months.

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Tuesday News 📅

Yesterday was the last day that the observation deck of the Turo de la Rovira, also known as «El Carmel Bunker,» was open at night. Thousands of tourists come here every year to party and bring their own alcohol. So now there will be no sunrise here. The site will be open from 9 to 19:30.

Yesterday, there was a demonstration in Barcelona, which was attended by over 2,000 people. The participants demanded an increase in wages and to stop the decline in purchasing power.

Madrid plans to turn into a center of big data and artificial intelligence. Now the region is developing 14 projects in the field of technology, cloud services and cybersecurity, and the world’s technology giants are opening branches here. This means there will be more job openings, and the speed of «digital connections» will increase, and it will be easier for tech companies to go through the «bureaucracy» stage and get the necessary permits.

@wedoobarcelona

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Let's talk about the lady who checked her couch, suitcase, and valise in her luggage and took all her favourite clothes to the vacation 🧳

1) Which airline agreed to do this?
2) How much did it cost the lady?
3) And how did she not lose her mind?

Statistically speaking, excess baggage fees have increased significantly in recent years. French airlines in 2019 would have charged 55€ for it, and this year it's already 75€.

To avoid worrying about luggage security, exceeding the norms of several airlines and not dream of 5-handedness, you can use a special service and send your luggage in advance. We came across a mention of this service from The Local, then we couldn't get past it.

We all read it, counted it, admired the opportunity to make our lives easier, and now tell you about it 👇🏻

The service is called Send My Bag. Here is a list of destinations to and from which they send luggage. There is a separate section for students.

For example, we calculated the cost of sending luggage from Spain to France. At the standard rate, the bags will take 3-4 working days to arrive. For the luggage up to 20 kg you have to pay $44, up to 30 kg — $55, and if the weight is more, then also $55, but for each kg +2,50$.

You can send bicycles, skis, boxes, bags and suitcases. You can't send anything in plastic bags and boxes, or anything with aerosols. The list of prohibited items depends on the country.

👀 Used this service or something similar? Or maybe sent luggage by a shipping company?

@wedoobarcelona
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¡Hola! ⚡️

Our name has changed, but our intention to make everything here convenient, useful and interesting hasn't disappeared. So do not be frightened, it's still us!

Better take the opportunity to tell us about yourself, leave a wish or share the pain of Barcelona life in the comments 🏖
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The best pizza in Europe was a pizza from Barcelona ⚡️

No, the Italians didn't participate. They were judged in a separate ranking. The guys from the international guide 50 Top Pizza tasted and decided who had the tastiest dough.

First place went to Sartoria Panatieri. In second place was Bæs Restaurant in Copenhagen, and third place went to 50 Kalò in London. «Pizza of the Year» is called «Salsa de tomates cherry asados, mozzarella y hollandesa de albahaca».

Also in the list of top ten was a pizza from Madrid. It's made at Fratelli Figurato.

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If you're going to be doing a long bike ride around the Gracia neighborhood anytime soon, don't pass by Bicioci

Bicioci has coffee, food and love of bikes.

Open:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 p.m. to 24 p.m.
Monday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed on Sunday.
Calle Venus 1.

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It's Saturday, which means it's time for food content 🥗

Researchers researched, dug into the data and found out what kind of food is most often ordered in home delivery in different regions of the country.

According to GastroEspaña ratings and Glovo data, Spain is a land of croquettes and omelets, with some specific differences in the autonomous communities. Andalusians, for example, are very fond of serranito (a warm stuffed sandwich) and ensaladilla rusa.

🥯 Last year, Andalusians ordered more than 80,000 serranitos at home. Most of them were ordered in Seville and Algeciras. The favorite among restaurants is the family restaurant Hermanos Morales in Seville.

🥗 The second most popular dish in Andalusia is the enzaladilla russa. Last year it was ordered over 57,000 servings, 66% more than the previous year. It is most loved in Huelva and Seville. They order it at the Fonda de María Mandao restaurant.

🥘 The third favorite food is salmorejo, a cold cream soup made of tomatoes and bread. It has overtaken gazpacho, with 14,000 servings ordered at Glovo. It is especially loved in Málaga, Córdoba and Aguadulza.

🍞Sweet eaters from Andalusia are ordering torrija — sweet bread toast — for the second year. Last year, Glovo delivered 1,600 torrija.

And the final one by region:
• Madrid, Aragón, Catalonia and the Canary Islands had croquettes and potato omelet.
• In Valencia they had croquettes and paella.
• In Asturias and Castile-Leone, the most popular dish was cachopo (as well as croquettes in Asturias and black pudding in Castile-Leone), and in Cantabria, rabas (calamari in breading) and tortilla (thin flatbread).

👀 You can tell us about your favorite foods and the places where they are best cooked in the comments.

@settleitbcn

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