Bimonthly Saturday Meetup in Barcelona (Big Meetup) October 2026

# 🚨🌍 THE BIG INTERNATIONAL MEETUP IS BACK — APPARENTLY 183 PEOPLE WASN'T ENOUGH 🌍🚨

Barcelona, we have a recurring problem.
Every two months we organize our BIG International Meetup.
And every two months, an unreasonable number of humans appear.
Previous evidence:
🍻 183 internationals
🍻 154 internationals
🍻 175 internationals
🍻 148 internationals
At this point, calling it a “Big Meetup” feels like calling IKEA a small furniture shop.
This is no longer an event.
It's immigration with background music.
And on Saturday, October 3rd…
We're doing it again.
Because apparently we looked at 183 people and thought:
“Hmm. Needs more people.”
📅 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD
⏰ FROM 18:00
📍 SONORA SPORTS TAVERN
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🍺 18:00–19:00: CAPITALISM TEMPORARILY STOPS WORKING
🚨 FIRST 50 BEERS = €1 EACH
Yes.
ONE. EURO.
Not €1 off.
Not €1 plus seventeen mysterious Barcelona terrace supplements.
€1.
For a beer.
In Barcelona.
In 2026.
We don't understand it either.
Our economists have resigned.
So arrive early.
Because there are 50 beers...
…and potentially 150+ thirsty internationals.
You don't need a PhD in mathematics to understand where this is going.
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🌍 WHAT TO EXPECT
Imagine putting 150+ people from around the world into one bar.
Now remove everyone's ability to ask creative opening questions.
The result:
“WHERE ARE YOU FROM?”
Approximately 6,847 times.
🇮🇹 “Italy.”
“OMG I LOVE ITALY!”
“Where did you go?”
“…I've never been.”
Perfect.
Friendship established.
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🧠 THE INTERNATIONAL MEETUP LIFE CYCLE
18:03
You arrive alone.
Your brain:
“This was a terrible idea.”
18:09
Someone:
“Hey! Where are you from?”
Your brain:
“Protect this person at all costs.”
18:37
You've met 7 people.
19:42
You've met 23 people.
21:16
You're discussing childhood trauma with someone whose surname you don't know.
22:34
“WE SHOULD DEFINITELY TRAVEL TOGETHER!”
You met this person four hours ago.
Neither of you knows the other's last name.
But apparently you're going to Croatia together.
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🍻 THE FOUR BIGGEST LIES OF THE NIGHT
#4: “I'm only staying for an hour.”
😂
#3: “I'm only having one drink.”
HAHAHAHA.
#2: “I'm definitely not dancing.”
Please.
And the undefeated world champion:
🥇 “LET'S DEFINITELY MEET AGAIN NEXT WEEK!”
A beautiful international tradition.
Usually followed by absolutely no communication for 73 days.
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📱 THE WHATSAPP GROUP PHENOMENON
At some point somebody will create:
🔥🌍 BARCELONA CRAZY FAMILY 2026 ❤️🍻🔥
Saturday:
127 messages
Sunday:
348 messages
Monday:
“Guys anyone wants coffee?”
Tuesday:
Silence.
Wednesday:
Silence.
Three months later:
“Does anyone know a room available from October?”
The circle of expat life is complete. 🦁
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💃 DANCING
At some point, people may dance.
There will be three categories:
💃 People who can actually dance
🕺 People who believe they can dance
🧍 People holding a beer and moving one shoulder
All three groups are equally welcome.
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❤️ COMING ALONE?
GOOD.
Seriously.
Coming alone is basically a cheat code.
Because when you're with friends, you talk to your friends.
When you're alone, your survival instincts activate:
“Hello, random human. Please adopt me.”
Twenty minutes later...
You have friends.
It's basically Tinder for friendship, except nobody needs to pretend they enjoy hiking.
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👀 WHO SHOULD COME?
✔ Just arrived in Barcelona?
Come.
✔ Been here 8 years but still tell people you're “kind of new”?
We respect the commitment.
Come.
✔ Your friends cancelled?
Excellent.
Upgrade them.
✔ Your flatmate is your entire social life?
We need to intervene.
✔ Your situationship said:
“Sorryyy, crazy week, maybe another day ❤️”
Oh, sweetheart.
Come.
✔ Your therapist told you to socialize more?
We cannot legally prescribe this event.
But we're extremely confident your therapist did NOT mean:
“Stay home and watch 94 Instagram Stories of other people having fun.”
✔ Introvert?
Perfect.
Arrive at 18:00.
Stand awkwardly for approximately 4 minutes.
Someone will adopt you.
This happens naturally.
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🚨 BUT MEETUP ONLY SHOWS 17 PEOPLE GOING!!!
Every.
Single.
Time.
Someone sees the Meetup attendance and thinks:
“Oh… maybe nobody is going.”
Meanwhile, people are coming through our international community, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and other groups.
And suddenly...
150+ humans.
Previous editions didn't hallucinate themselves:
So if Meetup shows fewer people...
Congratulations.
You've discovered that the internet occasionally fails to represent reality.
Scientists are investigating.
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📸 IMPORTANT WARNING
Photos and videos will happen.
Which means if you tell your friends:
“I'm tired, I'm staying home Saturday.”
…and then appear in the background of an Instagram Reel at 23:47 dancing like you're auditioning for Eurovision...
We cannot protect you.
Choose your lies carefully.
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🧠 YOUR BRAIN ON OCTOBER 3RD
At approximately 17:30 your brain may begin negotiations:
“Maybe I'll stay home…”
Ignore it.
That's the same brain that says:
“I'll scroll Instagram for five minutes.”
…and suddenly it's 1:43 AM and you're watching a video explaining whether penguins have knees.
Your brain has lost voting privileges.
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⚠️ CLICK “GOING”
Not “maybe.”
Not:
“I'll see how I feel.”
We know how this movie ends.
Saturday arrives.
Your sofa becomes suspiciously comfortable.
Your brain says:
“I'll go to the next one.”
Then Sunday morning you open Instagram and see 150 people having fun.
And suddenly:
REGRET.
Premium-quality, locally sourced, organic regret.
🌱 Made in Barcelona.
So click GOING now.
Future You is notoriously unreliable.
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📅 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD
⏰ FROM 18:00
📍 SONORA SPORTS TAVERN
🍺 FIRST 50 BEERS = €1
🌍 150+ internationals expected based on previous editions
Come alone.
Come with friends.
Come because you're new in Barcelona.
Come because you've lived here for seven years and somehow still have only four friends — two of whom moved to Berlin.
Just come.
Because on Sunday you can either say:
“That was ridiculous. 😂”
Or watch everyone else's photos and think:
“…I should've gone.”
And between those two options...
We already know which one your brain hates more. 😌
🔥🌍 THE BIG INTERNATIONAL MEETUP — OCTOBER 3RD
183 was the record.
Now Barcelona...
please behave irresponsibly enough to break it. 🍻😂
Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/new-in-barcelona/events/316460715
📘 Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1095395983380629
💬 WhatsApp Group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/H8NsoGLVuGsHJ0xyt6LRCQ
FINAL WARNING
You have two options.
Option A: Stay home. Watch Netflix ask, "Are you still watching?"
Option B: Come to Sonora, accidentally make friends from 12 countries, laugh until your cheeks hurt, and spend the next week trying to remember everyone's names.
Choose wisely.
(We all know you'll end up saying, "I almost didn't come..." right before calling it one of your best nights in Barcelona.) 🍻🌍😂