Barcelona’s Public Water Fountains

In 2023 we spent three months in Barcelona with a few mini trips squeezed in! You can see our Barcelona posts here, and some Paris posts here.

One of the more “everyday” items that we loved in Barcelona was the water fountains!

Barcelona has over 1600 public drinking fountains spread throughout the city, and the boys wasted no time sampling every fountain that they passed!… which was a lot of fountains. I probably should have taken more photos just to emphasize how often we stopped for a drink.

The fountains easy to recognize because they all have a common drinking tap, but beyond that similarity, we loved how much the fountains varied in design. We arrived in the middle of a heat wave last summer, so in addition to drinking from the fountains, the boys took advantage of the cool water by wetting their heads and necks. It definitely helped keep spirits high as we were exploring the city!

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Visiting the Louvre

We’re spending three months in Barcelona with a few mini trips squeezed in! You can see our Barcelona posts here, and more Paris posts here.

While in Paris, one of our bucket list items for the boys was to visit the Louvre. They are museum-lovers through and through, and they 100% know DaVinci and the Mona Lisa, so it made sense to give them this memory as part of the trip.

What I wasn’t prepared for was how their current reading binge would impact our visit!

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Rocky Pop Hotel

We’re spending three months in Barcelona with a few mini trips squeezed in! You can see our Barcelona posts here, Paris posts here, and soon we’ll have a few more Chamonix posts.

We don’t stay at hotels often, but let me tell you about this one that has now ruined us on all others.

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