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April 4, 2025

Extreme day tripping becomes Europe's hottest travel phenomenon

By MANDY APPLEGATE
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A quick easy two-hour flight from the United Kingdom takes an extreme day tripper to Barcelona where you can visit the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world, La Sagrada Família.

We all have the same 1,440 minutes in a day; it's how you spend it that counts. For a growing number of Europeans - more than 306,000 in one Facebook group - it's squeezing the most travel adventure possible into a single 24-hour window.


 
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