First time for me in Barcelona was in 1979 at the end of my semester abroad in Salamanca. We had a budget of $20/day on our way to Amsterdam to get the flight back home, so we traveled by overnight trains using our Eurail passes to avoid hotel costs. When we were in Barcelona in 2010, I felt positively posh remembering how broke my friends and I were back when we were students traveling on a shoestring budget. Looking forward to our next visit in October.