SANT ANTONI SUNDAY MARKET / BARCELONA: TIMELESS BOOKS. On Sundays, Barcelona smells of old books and steaming dust on a vinyl by Frank Zappa. Once every seven days, 52 times a year, the Sant Antoni Sunday market faithfully receives collectors of second-hand books, stamps or those in search declassified records. Between the Ensanche and the Raval districts, and now having run for more than 70 years, this market has become a meeting place for seekers of old titles at the good price, audio-visual materials and video games. OVIEDO MARKET: A PRIVILEGED CORNER. In the ancient quarter, Oviedo street market is held every Sunday morning. It is spread along eight streets and offers from bo

  Become Ferran Adrià in just three hours? Let's say that the challenge is obviously impossible, but why not learn the secrets of Spanish and Mediterranean cuisine? This might almost be a perfect plan if we are visiting Barcelona and we also love cooking. The Cook and Taste workshop, given in English and French, is what sets the challenge.   On the Barcelona Ramblas, this cooking workshop gives one-day courses on Spanish cuisine that give not only the theory, but also the practice. Let's say that our idea is to make a good gazpacho or better still a paella; on this crash course for travellers who want to learn to cook, the first step is to buy the ingr

  Jen and Laia want to get married. They know they don’t have to, that their families are not pressing them and even recognise that maybe it is something that has gone rather out of fashion. “But we want to celebrate our love and obviously too, this achievement that has taken so long to come”, say these two 30-year old women who have been together for a year and want to formalise their relationship. For the time being, they are thinking of dates and looking for a home, but when they are joined in matrimony they will add to the more than 20,000 gay couples that have married since the law was passed in 2005 allowing marriages between people of the same sex. &n