Best Bike Tours in Barcelona 2021-compared

Steel Donkey Bike Tour

Founded back in 2010, Steel Donkeys pioneered the rise of hip (时尚的) and alternative tourism in Barcelona with their small-group tours and off-the-beaten path philosophy. Their aim from the beginning was to treat their customers like friends and show them the hidden sights of the city, along with local secrets and hip hangouts. Their tours often sell out, especially in summer, so best to book your space as far in advance if possible!

• Price: € 35 per person

• Duration: 4 hours

• Max. group size: 8 people

City Highlights Bike Tour

If you’re new in town and you want to start your exploration of Barcelona with the main attractions, like Sagrada Familia and Gaudi’s epic (宏大的) houses, then it’s hard to beat this classic bicycle tour. For actually entering La Sagrada Familia, you can buy tickets online and skip the long queue.

• Price: € 27 per person

• Duration: 3 hours

• Max. group size: 15 people

Street Art Tour by Bamboo Bicycle

Your ride for the day is a beautiful handmade bamboo bicycle that will make you the envy of other cyclists! After that it’s time to explore the colourful heritage of street art in the Catalan capital, most of which can be found in the former industrial district of Poblenou.

• Price: € 53 per person

• Duration: 3 hours

• Max. group. size: 10 people

Montefusco Cycling

This company offers road bike rental (with delivery to the airport or your hotel), as well as a range of lung-bursting tours in the beautiful Catalan countryside—such as the Montseny and Montserrat mountain ranges.

If you have a little less time on your hands, you can choose the Hills Around The City tour and enjoy truly epic views over Barcelona from the local Collserolla mountain range.

•Price: € 90 per person

•Duration: 4 hours

•Max. group size: 4 people

Feeling a bit bored with your job and fancy a change? Why not try one of these jobs out? They're probably not to everyone's taste, but believe it or not, these are actually real jobs done by real people.

Here are the top 5 weirdest jobs in the world:

1.Professional sleeper:

A hotel in Finland hired a member of staff as a 'professional sleeper' to test the comfort of their beds.The individual sleeps in a different one of the hotel beds each night and writes a review about her satisfaction with each one.

2.Drying paint watcher:

No, this isn't a joke.Someone actually earns a living watching paint dry.A man in the UK currently has the job and he spends his days painting sheets of cardboard to test how long new paint mixes take to dry and watching for changes in color and texture.

3.Train Pusher:

If you think the London Underground is bad, you should see the trains in Japan. 'Oshiyas' are hired to help cram as many people onto a train as possible by pushing them from the outside until the doors will close.

4.Snake Milker:

Not for the light-hearted. The job of a snake milker is to collect the venom of poisonous snakes in jars for use in anti-venoms and other medication.Thank god someone's brave enough!

5.Scuba Diving Pizza Delivery Man:

If the fact that there's an underwater hotel in Florida isn't bizarre enough, to add on to that, they have a scuba diving pizza delivery man who supplies them with pizza by carrying them through the sea in a watertight case.

Do you do an unusual job? We'd love to hear about it, so let us know!

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J. D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski (Random House, $ 27)

“You’re a smart boy. Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only one who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it?” The boy was staring stubbornly at his lap again.

A thought suddenly occurred to Annika, “Did you... You recognized the man in the car, didn’t you?”

The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers. “Maybe,” he said quietly.

Red Wolf by Liza Marklund (Atria Books, $ 25.99)

She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t.

You Are Free by Danzy Senna (Riverhead Books, $ 15)

Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times’s “amusement cycling” is the most fun you can have in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive in most cities?

Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle (Ecco, $ 14.99)