{"id":10893,"date":"2014-10-02T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=10893"},"modified":"2016-09-29T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:02:53","slug":"barcelona-love-and-hate-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/barcelona-love-and-hate-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona : Love It or Hate It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona is often described as one of the most beautiful city in Europe with its fantastic architecture and cosmopolitan culture with different races all in one city.\u00a0 Just like everything in life there are two sides to the coin.\u00a0 There are often other problems in the city which tourists mainly hate and they are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Tourists<\/strong>, Barcelona and the surrounding outskirts house up to a million and a half people.\u00a0 The same number of tourists take resident in the city each year, especially during the Summer.\u00a0 Tourists seeking \u00a0a quiet location to visit during the summer should avoid Barcelona.\u00a0 The queues for some of the touristic attractions spawn in hundreds such as popular architecture such as La Sagrada Familia or the local museums.\u00a0 Thousands of people can be found walking along Las Ramblas the most popular street in Barcelona which can make it an unpleasant experience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10906\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10906\" class=\"wp-image-10906 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Barcelona-57-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Barcelona either you love it or you don't\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las Ramblas<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>2. Pickpockets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona is famous for the many professional pickpockets who roam the streets looking for their next victims. They use several tricks such as asking for directions with a large map.\u00a0 Whilst one person is asking for directions another is trying to steal money from bag packs or purses.\u00a0 Another trick they use is on the metros.\u00a0 They will stand by the doorway and you need to pass them in order to exit the metro.\u00a0 The police do very little to help, so the best thing is to prevent it from happening, by carrying as little money as is needed each day and to avoid walking around with passports and other important documents.<\/p>\n<p>There are fantastic reasons to love Barcelona. \u00a0They are as follows:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10909\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/beach.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10909\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/beach-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Beach stretch in Barcelona\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach stretch in Barcelona<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>1. Beaches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are different beach sections which stretch for kilometers to suit different type of needs. \u00a0There are gay beaches, nudist and family beaches. \u00a0All beach sections have a vast number of restaurants and bars along each beach.\u00a0 Locals tend to go to beaches a bit further away from the city which is a train ride and can cost anything from five to twenty euros return per adult.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Nightlife<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10908\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10908\" class=\"wp-image-10908 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightlife-Barcelona-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nightlife in Barcelona<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The nightlife is amazing in Barcelona, clubs open until the early hours of the morning and at times when others are going out to breakfast, others are returning from a night of partying and drinking at one of the clubs.\u00a0 They tend to open at ten and shut at six in the morning.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"\n    class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-valign-bottom kksr-align-left \"\n    data-id=\"10893\"\n    data-slug=\"\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 150px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-legend\">\n            <strong class=\"kksr-score\">5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\/<\/span>\n        <strong>5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">(<\/span>\n        <strong class=\"kksr-count\">1<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\n            vote        <\/span>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona is often described as one of the most beautiful city in Europe with its fantastic architecture and cosmopolitan culture with different races all in one city.\u00a0 Just like everything in life there are two sides to the coin.\u00a0 There are often other problems in the city which tourists mainly hate and they are as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":71145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4599],"tags":[969,176,81,966,921,924,968,967],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79741,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions\/79741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}