Fantastic location is an understatement. Cristina’s flat is located right on the edge of the old Vila de Gràcia, a charming neighborhood with an old world village feel but a lot of modern conveniences. The flat is right next door to a greengrocer for all your fruit/vegetable needs, and there are plenty of mini markets and bakeries nearby to keep you stocked on food over the course of your stay. Feel like eating out? Take your pick of the many tapas bars around the neighborhood. There’s plenty of variety and you don’t pay the inflated prices of the tapas bars downtown. In fact, you feel like a local when you eat out around here. There are also many pharmacies for your health needs and lots of cute boutique shops where you can find gifts for your friends crafted by local artisans. If you do need to get into town, there are multiple metro stops located around the flat and one bus line stops right outside the house for convenient access to public transit. You can even easily catch a taxi if you walk a couple blocks towards the busier roads just outside the neighborhood. The flat itself is clean, well-kept, and filled with all the basic amenities you could ever need during your stay—best of all being washer, dryer, AND AC. Sometimes you can hear the locals outside at night still partying well into the early hours of the morning, especially during the Festa Major de Gràcia, but that’s all part of the experience and you’ll likely be out late as well to get in on the action. All in all, this is a great place to stay and I will definitely remember Cristina’s place if I plan a future trip to Barcelona!