No other city has welcomed me more than Barcelona. I have visited it many times, as a backpacker with hardly any money, but just enough for a packet of chips for lunch and dinner, and a couple of Guinness at night. I started going back to the city to experience the wine regions of Spain once I ventured into the wine world. If you love your vino, Barcelona is close to Cava country, Spain’s answer to high quality sparkling wine in the region of Penedès, which is less than an hour away.