Products picked by recdi8 – design shop A great little corner to find classy gifts. This little store in El Born is full of small details ideal for gifting - more surprising than funny; curious rather than obvious; discrete over shrill.

Now Fundació Caixa Catalunya and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France bring over 150 pieces of ukiyo-e , very popular xylographs between the 17th and 20th centuries, to add to our vision of that distant land.

Like it or not, tourism is here to stay and we're increasingly dependent on it. But rather than complain about the steady Disneyfication of Theme Park Barcelona, let's embrace it.