Barcelona City Break Match at The Camp Nou Barcelona fc Stadium tour -
There is very few people I care about meeting in the flesh or seeing them perform live, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Eminem and Lionel Messi. Just absolute geniuses. Messi was one of my sons footballing heroes too, so me and Sonny headed off to Barcelona to watch the great man in action. It was a Christmas present from my mum to us both so it was like early/mid January so the weather wasn’t great so we didn’t head for many beaches and when we got there it was pissing down.
The boy got the hump because he said I’m annoying keep taking pictures of doors and stuff and we had a row but we soon got over it. We were there for 3 nights and the game was on last day, but we had the stadium tour as well the next day to look forward too. The stadium tour was really good if you love football of course, the place is packed with tourists all wanting the same picture but was an experience to see all the past and present history of Barcelona FC. I’ve always been a big fan, when I was a kid I had a Barcelona shirt it absolutely swamped me but nobody in the manor had one so felt proper special, it had 8 Stoitchkov on the back as well. I actually see some of his stuff was a big hero of mine from back in the World Cup 94 (showing age here wow back). A particular highlight for me was seeing Messi 5 Balon Dor Trophies and also they do an interactive tour where you can take pictures on way round and turn it into a book. Pricey at 40E but if you there you there but you don’t really need to do this.
Summary: Must see for footballs fans, loads of tourists, shrine to Lionel Messi, advise they don’t do stadium tours on the day of games so you will need at 2 days to see a game and the tour.
Game day was amazing, I made the mistake of buying Sonny a Vuvuzela so we now walking round the stadium and he’s is blowing it constantly making tunes proper loudest people here and English, I’m not telling him to stop he’s enjoying himself that’s what we here for, got to say it was annoying LMAO. Well anyways you go in the stadium its massive even bigger when packed with fans from all over the world, we had some great seats, we was probably say 15 rows back from behind the goal on the bottom, which is close at the Camp Nou. If you know Barcelona to, it was good for one half as the game is always in the opposition half, but we could see lots in second half when they were shooting towards us. There was an added extra we was a few rows back from the Ultras which they were literally singing and chanting all the way through it, they have one guy at the front that conducts it and everyone just sings along through the whole game. Its literally some of they lives. Madness, it’s a football game but Barcelona are just different, I get it somehow. If you do get a chance to go I recommend sitting near here for a proper authentic football crowd, when I say “Ultras” I mean, proper fans, in no way are they threatening on the contrary if anything. I also must say although Barcelonba FC is a historic club, all you can really here is people chanting “ MESSI<MESSI<MESSI” and people here from around the globe hoping to get a glimpse of him a decent photo, they mainly here to see the genius at work. I suppose that’s why you’re here reading this.
Advice: When you go to things like this they are expensive! Cut down, find a local supermarket and buy your drinks and water they are 10th of the price, there is a fridge in your room use it. Don’t go to Mutton Burger places and mutton Ice Cream Parlours that cost the earth and are shit. Do not buy food from inside a football stadium especially on a match day, I wouldn’t feed it to my dog, wasn’t the worst here but still just don’t!! (Mutton = Not as good as it looks)
Other things we saw in Barcelona was La Sagrada Familia. An UNESCO world heritage site and a real bucket list thing for some people and Barcelona pride and joy. A building that is still being built would you believe? 137 years after they started building it the works are still going on. It is due to finish by 2026. Blown my mind this has! When it is finally complete it will be the biggest religious building in Europe at 170 metres high.
Mount Tibidabo, the highest point of Barcelona and can see the entire city. Amazing views we only briefly visited on last day and had the Uber waiting downstairs. Apparently you can take a tram here through Barcelona’s poshest streets that has been in operation since 1901.
We also walked round most of the city but was only there a couple of days ill need to revisit we saw the Park Guell, Casa Mia and we stayed on La Rambla.
There is very few people I care about meeting in the flesh or seeing them perform live, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Eminem and Lionel Messi. Just absolute geniuses. Messi was one of my sons footballing heroes too, so me and Sonny headed off to Barcelona to watch the great man in action. It was a Christmas present from my mum to us both so it was like early/mid January so the weather wasn’t great so we didn’t head for many beaches and when we got there it was pissing down.
The boy got the hump because he said I’m annoying keep taking pictures of doors and stuff and we had a row but we soon got over it. We were there for 3 nights and the game was on last day, but we had the stadium tour as well the next day to look forward too. The stadium tour was really good if you love football of course, the place is packed with tourists all wanting the same picture but was an experience to see all the past and present history of Barcelona FC. I’ve always been a big fan, when I was a kid I had a Barcelona shirt it absolutely swamped me but nobody in the manor had one so felt proper special, it had 8 Stoitchkov on the back as well. I actually see some of his stuff was a big hero of mine from back in the World Cup 94 (showing age here wow back). A particular highlight for me was seeing Messi 5 Balon Dor Trophies and also they do an interactive tour where you can take pictures on way round and turn it into a book. Pricey at 40E but if you there you there but you don’t really need to do this.
Summary: Must see for footballs fans, loads of tourists, shrine to Lionel Messi, advise they don’t do stadium tours on the day of games so you will need at 2 days to see a game and the tour.
Game day was amazing, I made the mistake of buying Sonny a Vuvuzela so we now walking round the stadium and he’s is blowing it constantly making tunes proper loudest people here and English, I’m not telling him to stop he’s enjoying himself that’s what we here for, got to say it was annoying LMAO. Well anyways you go in the stadium its massive even bigger when packed with fans from all over the world, we had some great seats, we was probably say 15 rows back from behind the goal on the bottom, which is close at the Camp Nou. If you know Barcelona to, it was good for one half as the game is always in the opposition half, but we could see lots in second half when they were shooting towards us. There was an added extra we was a few rows back from the Ultras which they were literally singing and chanting all the way through it, they have one guy at the front that conducts it and everyone just sings along through the whole game. Its literally some of they lives. Madness, it’s a football game but Barcelona are just different, I get it somehow. If you do get a chance to go I recommend sitting near here for a proper authentic football crowd, when I say “Ultras” I mean, proper fans, in no way are they threatening on the contrary if anything. I also must say although Barcelonba FC is a historic club, all you can really here is people chanting “ MESSI<MESSI<MESSI” and people here from around the globe hoping to get a glimpse of him a decent photo, they mainly here to see the genius at work. I suppose that’s why you’re here reading this.
Advice: When you go to things like this they are expensive! Cut down, find a local supermarket and buy your drinks and water they are 10th of the price, there is a fridge in your room use it. Don’t go to Mutton Burger places and mutton Ice Cream Parlours that cost the earth and are shit. Do not buy food from inside a football stadium especially on a match day, I wouldn’t feed it to my dog, wasn’t the worst here but still just don’t!! (Mutton = Not as good as it looks)
Other things we saw in Barcelona was La Sagrada Familia. An UNESCO world heritage site and a real bucket list thing for some people and Barcelona pride and joy. A building that is still being built would you believe? 137 years after they started building it the works are still going on. It is due to finish by 2026. Blown my mind this has! When it is finally complete it will be the biggest religious building in Europe at 170 metres high.
Mount Tibidabo, the highest point of Barcelona and can see the entire city. Amazing views we only briefly visited on last day and had the Uber waiting downstairs. Apparently you can take a tram here through Barcelona’s poshest streets that has been in operation since 1901.
We also walked round most of the city but was only there a couple of days ill need to revisit we saw the Park Guell, Casa Mia and we stayed on La Rambla.
Originally published at https://www.samversusworld.com on September 3, 2021.
