Barcelona

We aren't just talking about a regional trend in the American Midwest anymore.

These new locations include Tokyo, Japan, Barcelona, Spain, Lagos, Nigeria.

Wow, Tokyo and Lagos.

Yes.

El corazón de Sicilia.

Barcelona.

Secretos de la ciudad condal.

Y para los pequeños viajeros, descubriendo el continente blanco con el libro Antártida.

As we leant against the kitchen counter in his South Manchester home, we chatted about the first things we cooked as kids.

What we remember from our childhood in Barcelona, including our mum's parties, always centred around food.

What our kitchen was like growing up, very basic.

The differences in food when we moved from Barcelona to the UK.

And what makes a good pizza and how to eat it.

I hope you enjoy my chat with my little brother Zahir, who recently over lunch described our family dynamic as consisting of an idealist, my mum, an idealist realist, Zahir, and a plain realist, me.

I think, I mean, I don't know.

I remember...

We'll see.

Yeah, they're playing Glasgow, Manchester, Munich, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Sling Castle.

Holy mackerel.

Hertfordshire.

That's big.

Three nights in Munich where like Harry Kane plays.

Yeah, the Olympic Stadium, Barcelona.

They play these huge things and they can do it as much as they want.

That's one of their Vision-class ships, as I recall.

And it will kick off with 7- to 12-night cruises from Athens, Barcelona, Spain, and Lisbon, Portugal.

They will then add other destinations, including Egypt, Turkey.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

And there's probably two destinations that stand out that really do a great job of responsible tourism.

One has been on the more reactive side, And that has been Barcelona for the last two, three years, maybe up to five years now.

Barcelona has had a record demand of visitation from all means throughout Europe growth, you know, incoming for ships and everything else to the point where, you know, the residents finally said enough's enough.

And one of the first things they did, they tried to look at the infrastructure of where conventions would meet and sort of, you know, remove that sector from and put it in a new growth area.

But they have now gotten to the point where you never want to be at this level, where literally by votes of the citizens now, you've got the elimination of Airbnbs and some of the alternative state facilities no longer applicable.

It's a very unique, tasty water.

Or they have Vichy Catalane, beautiful water from the Catalonia region out of Barcelona.

High TDS of 3,000, very salty, that water.

And when you think about the beautiful cuisine of Barcelona, the chorizos, the paellas, a lot of aromas to it.

That water actually can hold to the aromas.

Wow.

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Hey, guys.