A walkable town of 117 buildings reproduced from across Spain, built for the 1929 exposition on Montjuic and never demolished, with craft workshops, an art museum and a flamenco tablao.
Barcelona's best-known street: the 2017 attack and its memorial, the rebuilding works running to 2027, the Liceu opera house, the Boqueria market and what became of Bar Pinotxo.
Shopping for school clothes can get expensive quickly; that is, unless you know where to shop for bargains. Children, especially teens, are into brand-name clothing that can be quite pricey.
The Underground City, officially RÉSO, is some thirty-two kilometres of connected passages beneath central Montreal. Useful in winter, though the department store that anchored it has closed.
The venues outlast the shops in them: the Forum Shops, the Grand Canal Shoppes and the Miracle Mile — which was Desert Passage until 2007 — plus the thing most British shoppers get wrong, which is that there is no VAT refund.
Reclaiming Spanish VAT as a non-EU resident, the liberalised Sunday trading rules, the shopping districts from Gran Via to Malasana, El Rastro and the reopened Mercado de San Miguel.
Have you ever purchased a car that was a lemon? Facing problem after problem robs you of the pleasure of enjoying your new car. Unfortunately, there are dogs that are lemons, too.
Harrods has been owned by the Qatar Investment Authority since 2010, not by the Fayed family. The pet department closed in 2014, the dress code has gone, and in 2025 the store applied to remove the Egyptian hall and the sixteen carvings of its former owner's face.
Oxford Street became permanently traffic-free on 26 October 2026, under a development corporation that took planning powers from Westminster and Camden in August 2026.
The avenue's two halves and where they divide, the widest-avenue claim dropped, the plane trees, what the redesign has actually built, the Concorde works to 2030, the Grand and Petit Palais, and the monthly car-free Sunday.
