• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    From Barcelona. they only shop up on line a handful of corners, seems like they get off the bus on the Sagrada Familia or other simpler spots, take their picture and go back to the bus. I didn’t specify which eat Asians, because never gotten too close and no one complains about them.

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      5 hours ago

      I’ve been to Barcelona, didn’t seem like a particularly cramped city. When I lived in a cramped, touristy city, my university was one of the attractions and right in the middle of the city center.

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        4 hours ago

        they do have a lot of policies to not overdo tourism and become a theme park. like banning airbnb or adding a tax on hotels for tourists…

        it does help

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          30 minutes ago

          It also helps that they have really wide streets compared to some other popular tourist destinations. Some of those old european towns have really narrow streets.

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            27 minutes ago

            funny you mention. the ramblas is usually packed full of tourists. however all the cool local places for locals are a in that neighborhood a street away. all locals know that, and they enjoy that neighborhood, while you’ll rarely see tourists getting lost there.