We made a short trip to Barcelona recently. We had family that were heading there for a cruise from the US, and we went to see them before their boarded their boat. We actually got there a couple of days early to do a little exploring since, with them having visited before, we wanted to have a look at some things that they had already done.
This trip came just after we had moved house so neither of us had really done much planning for it. Normally, when we go somewhere, there has been a lot of research that has gone into what we might want to see and do. Without this, we were winging it a fair bit. As it turned out, that worked pretty well got us. Partly, this was due to the weather. It was ridiculously hot in Barcelona for the first couple of days we were there. That limited the amount of time we wanted to spend wandering around the streets. Without a hard plan, that avoided us being disappointed (or getting heat exhaustion!).
Our hotel was a short walk from the waterfront, so we did head down there one evening. We also got to see the interesting streets close to the hotel without having to trek too far. We did pass up on some things that might otherwise have been a possibility. No bad thing to leave something for another reason to visit.
