re: Solo Trip Suggestions/Status of Barcelona?

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communicating

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Most folks under the age of 40 speak English in addition to Spanish & Catalan. Just brush up on some basic conversational phases, you'll be fine.

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getting around

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Taxi to/from the airport to wherever you are staying. Barcelona is very walk-able otherwise. My wife and I pretty much walked from our hotel (Corner Hotel) to every bar/restaurant and point of interest aside from Camp Nou and a vineyard trip outside the city.

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good food/bars

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Piscolabis (Las Ramblas)
Cerveceria Catalana (just off Las Ramblas on Mallorca)...crowded pretty much all day so be prepared to wait
Cellarer(on Mallorca) is a good wine bar with really good food, the two Argentinian guys who own it are fantastic humans
Literally ANYTHING at La Boqueria
Quimet & Quimet (great place but standing room only and wasn't really near anything we did, took a special trip here)

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interesting sight-seeing/culture

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Aside from Gaudi & Picasso

Cava country, short drive from Barcelona-we hired a driver and hit Cava Llopart...the scenery was incredible (their vineyard overlooks the town of Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, Montserrat, and on clear day-you can see the Pyrenees mountains).