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St. Partick’s Day (Irish-Galic: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is the national holiday of Ireland, North-Ireland, Montserrat and the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador. The holiday is on the 17th of March on which people commemorate the saint, Sint-Partricius. All over Ireland it is celebrated with effusive concerts, fairs, parades and fireworks at the river Liffey in Dublin. Green is the color that is being associated with the festival. The celebrating people mostly wear green clothing and they can buy green beer on this day for example.

 

1. Bars

Shadow lounge
Shadow Lounge is one of Barcelona's most popular gay bars. Offering a very relaxing atmosphere and Barcelona's first bar to offer oxygen to their customers in flavors of mango and lime. This bar offers other delicious cocktails such as the Shadow crème brûlée . Located at Consell de Cent, 223.

AM Bar
A very trendy gay bar with a relaxed atmosphere with couches to lounge. It opens at 8pm. Located at Career de Cassinova, 71

G Café
G Café is located in the center of Barcelona and is a great place to enjoy an afternoon coffee or an evening drink among friends or to make new friends. This café is catered to afternoon and evening entertaining and has less of nightlife. Opens at 4pm and is located at carrer de Muntaner, 24.

 

We all want to enjoy the best without having to pay the ridiculously high prices. City breaks have become much more important to us in these stress ridden times, taking a short break to some of the top city’s in Europe is a logical step. I have picked my 5 favourite restaurants, clubs and activities in Barcelona all at affordable prices to show why having a small budget should not curtail your fun.

 

Barcelona can be very expensive to American tourists for many reasons, primarily the awful exchange rate from Euros to the American dollar. Although it appears to be incredibly expensive, there are ways to have an inexpensive day in this city.

You and your friends can go to the Boqueria located in the middle of Las Ramblas where you can purchase ingredients to make a sandwich. For only seventy cents you can buy bread and it costs very little for you to buy lunch meet or a whole sandwich. To finish off the day bring your sandwiches to Park Guell and have a picnic while you view the amazing and historic architecture of this park.

 

Everyone that goes to visit the city of Barcelona has to eat traditional tapas. Here are the 10 best places to go, they are listed with addresses and phone numbers.

 

Traveling to Barcelona is a relatively cheap activity when you are already in Europe. There are plenty of low cost airlines including: Ryan Air, EasyJet, Vueling and Iberian Airlines, flying in and out of Barcelona. If a trip is booked properly, your airfare is usually very reasonable. But then there are the other four big costs involved in every trip, hotel, transportation, sightseeing and dinning.

 

Generally speaking, Paris is known as the Romance Capital of Europe but Barcelona offers many activities for you and your loved one to do while spending a weekend in this beautiful city. For a relaxing and romantic afternoon, head to the green park of Ciutadella located within the city limits where you can rent paddleboats and spend the afternoon boating on the beautiful lake.

Another relaxing afternoon can be spent at one of Barcelona's spectacular beaches. Barceloneta Beach is located in the Barceloneta neighborhood of the city with a beautiful boardwalk where you can take walks and eat at one of the multiple ice cream shops that line the boardwalk.

 

San Miguel Primavera Sound 2011 will be held at the end of May this year in the Catalan capital. It mainly programs names from the independent music industry. There are relatively big bands playing like PJ Harvey or Grinderman, but the biggest part of the 100 artists are or unknown acts that still have to be discovered, or curiosities that you see rarely.

It is a combination of all of these factors that make such a good festival poster. Summing up doesn’t work at Primavera, there’s no hierarchy in artists.

The press conference where a big part of the line-up was introduced and this year’s edition was being clarified, took longer than an hour and every aspect of the poster was being explained. It characterizes the festival’s philosophy.

 

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