Barcelona Spain
Packing List

Planning Your Trip

Our Experience in Barcelona

Check out the architecture. Places to visit include Parc Guell, La Sagrada Familia, La Padrera, Montjuic, Montserrat.

Don't miss La Rambla and the great Mercat de la Boqueria market.

The Metro was clean and easy to navigate. It reminded us of the T in Boston.

People are out all night. On our early morning cab ride to the airport, we passed people still stumbling around La Rambla.

Watch out for pickpockets. While I was in line at a Falafel shop, a single female tourist was in front of me paying for her lunch. A local guy and his buddies entered the small shop. The tallest of them cut in front of me in line. I was annoyed but wasn't about to start arguing with him. Then I realized what was happening: while the woman was handing her money to the cashier, the guy who cut in line reached into her backpack, grabbed whatever was there (papers and money?) and casually walked out of the store with his buddies. She had no idea she had been robbed. I felt like an idiot just standing there, but the entire transaction took about 6 seconds.

Map of Barcelona Spain

Must-Pack Items

Barcelona is a modern city. You will walk alot and use public transportation.

Universal Packing List

This packing list contains stuff we bring on just about every trip.

A carry-on shoulder bag contains:

• passport
• hotel reservations
• car reservations
• flight itinerary
• photocopies of important documents, license and credit cards
• top 10 travel guide or print outs about where we are headed
• Moleskine notebook
• 4 color Pen
• wicked tiny flashlight
• chapstick
• hand sanitizer
• tissues (toilet paper)
• inflatable neck pillow
• handkerchief
• face cloth
• couple of protein bars or trail mix

Toiletry bag from LL Bean contains:

• electric razor and charger
• toothbrush
• toothpaste (trial size)
• floss
• earplugs
• glasses
• spare contacts
• shampoo
• soap
• contact solution (trial size)
• contact case
• vitamins
• extra large condoms
• sunscreen (trial size)
• nail clippers
• tweezers
• small plastic mirror
• Q tips

Electronic Gear (all in a gallon ziplock)

• compact camera
• 2 spare batteries for compact camera
• compact camera charger
• 4 4gb memory cards
• backup (old) compact camera
• backup camera spare battery
• backup camera charger
• wind-up solar am fm weather radio flashlight cellphone charger
• travel alarm clock
• iPod
• headphones
• iPod charger
• Gorillapod
• headphone adapter for old airplanes

First Aid & Miscellaneous Items (all in a gallon ziplock)

• small first aid kit (bandaids, moleskin, neosporin, aspirin, pepto, laxatives, space blankets, water purification tablets)
• binder clips – handy for keeping curtains closed, holding papers and tickets together
• compass – Are we heading in the right direction? how do we get back?
• clothesline and a tiny bottle of detergent – if you have a sink you can do some laundry
• extra shoelaces
• extra velcro straps
• small s-biners
• my old swiss army knife and or leatherman (if we check our bags)
• good luck charm (optional)