Barcelona

Coffee in a thousand-year-old plaza, the quiet cathedral with thirteen white geese, tapas in the tangled streets of El Born, Gaudí's unfinished basilica in the afternoon, and a fountain show on Montjuïc as dusk falls.

A morning coffee in a Gràcia plaça, independent design shops, a menu del día lunch in a local bar, an afternoon climb to the Turó del Rovira bunkers, and a long vermut evening back in the neighbourhood.

Morning in the city's central park, the Picasso museum in medieval palaces, lunch at a tiny tapas bar where the bomba was invented, an afternoon on Barceloneta beach, and a tapas crawl through El Born.