Highlights from Choir! Choir! Choir! co-founder Nobu Adilman's dreamy trip to Barcelona included drinking straight vermouth and taking in the Gothic architecture
Whenever I travel for work, I try to tack on a couple of extra days for a personal trip. Last spring, I was in Portugal with my co-founder Daveed Goldman, hosting a Choir! Choir! Choir! session for a corporate event. When we finished, I decided to spend a week in Barcelona. A friend from university, David, and his wife, Silvia, had moved there during the pandemic, and I’d never been to Spain.
When I arrived, I went from the airport to meet Silvia at Soho House, where she surprised me with a massage booking at the spa in the basement. It was a great way to enter a new city: completely relaxed. Then I met up with David, who was having a beer on the patio. That first evening, we went on a tour of small restaurants. We went from dive bars to classier places and caught up on life while drinking straight vermouth, which was new for me—apparently it’s a thing in Barcelona.
David and Silvia rent an apartment in the Gothic Quarter. The building has a gorgeous art nouveau ironwork elevator and an inner courtyard. We explored their favourite neighbourhoods, like El Born, where I visited a traditional espadrille shop, and El Raval. One of the highlights was seeing castellers in an area called Gràcia. Groups of people build human towers up to 15 metres high. It’s a Catalonian tradition, and it brings people of all ages together.
In the days that followed, David and Silvia went back to work, and I toured the city on my own. I spent an afternoon at the Sagrada Família—a church designed by Antoni Gaudí that has been under construction since the late 1800s. I was amazed by how he fused nature and religion and pasted it on the building’s exterior, which looks like a melted candle. Inside, the church is devoid of religious iconography save for one cross hanging in the middle.
At that time, I didn’t know whether Choir! was going to survive the pandemic. I had lost my drive, but being singularly blown away by a city renewed my faith that things would get better—and they did.
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