Las Ramblas Barcelona

¡Hola! When in Barcelona, one must speak like the Barcelonians (with a lisp). So after 3 days of confidently speaking Spanish, we went north to Barcelona where everyone speaks Catalan. For those of you unaware, Spain has 4 official languages. Castellano (spanish), Catalan, Galician and Basque. No offense, but Catalan sounds like French and …

Saturday, June 23

I woke up in Barcelona today ready and raring to go, I have been waiting since I made my first deposit for this trip to see in person the works of Gaudi! Before I get too wrapped up in our day of exploring Barcelona let me first talk about Antoni Guadi. He was born in 1852 and by the time he was sixty his entire family …

-In the morning in Taragona we walk along the beach, and some brave it, going for a swim.

-We then head to Monasterio de Poblet. We get a guided tour of this monastry. one of the finest monastries in Spain.

-We then reach the outskirts of Barcelona, and head to a few projects not walkable to within the city centre. The first is a …

Left Seville via fast train for 5.5 hr trip to Barcelona, great experience with lovley country side and would have been better in RailNZ had not stuffed up our tickets. We booked and paid for 1st class but ended up in Tourist class. Not impressed at all as we had no services other than a seat and should have had wifi, meals, drinks etc. Also the …

We arrived at El Prat Barcelona's Airport at 10:30, recieved our luggage and took a taxi to our hotel Casanova by Rafael, in Grand via les Corts. Suprised to see that the room we booked was in fact a suite in the top floor of the hotel with a spacious bedroom, a living room with a 40'' LCD TV, 2 bathrooms and many more. Took a shower, an hour of …

Tess and I got our fruit and snacks for the day and hopped on the train from Vilanova to Barcelona. Today we did our tour of La Sagrada Familia (cathedral that Gaudi spent his life trying to finish). It will finally be finished in 2041 and Gaudi died in 1926 at the age of 73, never to see it completed. There is so much to see at this cathedral, I …

The weekend in Barcelona was a very fun weekend. I went with my friend Diana who lived there for a few years. On Saturday we did so much walking and saw so many different things. We started in the morning and first went to Plaza Catalunia. There was an area where you could buy food to feed the pigeons. They will eat right out of your hand. I …

Situata la malul Marii Mediterane, Barcelona este cea mai populara destinatie din Spania. Peisajele pitoresti, arhitectura modernista a lui Gaudi, cartierul gotic cel mai bine pastrat din Europa, galeriile de arta - sunt multe motive sa vizitezi acest oras incantator. In timp ce veti explora strazile veti descoperi o atmosfera care combina eleganta …

I have already fallen in love with Barcelona. The people, the weather, the beach, the food... it's simply wonderful. It is such a nice change from the chaos of the big cities. Everything and everyone here seem so easy going. We had a perfect day of travel, no delays for once. Our hotel is a block off of the Las Ramblas which is perfect. We have …

I am going to have to try really hard to find enough positive things about Barcelona to write this blog!!

Both AJ and I were pretty disappointed in the whole Barcelona experience, it was certainly not as amazing as some of the other countries we have seen. It is definitely not a safe place at night either.

But on the bright side …

... it. There's a lot of excitement and character in the place. Florist after florist cramp together alongside bird sellers and street artists on las ramblas. the human statues constantly try t out do each other in the ridiculousness of their costume; the ...

... - ship not cleared.  Everyone is VERY excited and we almost run off the ship when allowed.  We take the shuttle into Las Ramblas and wander along it although nothing much is open.  We try to buy metro tickets, but we can't because we don't ...

... 18th century area, with beautiful Spanish looking traditional buildings. In between them runs one of the world's famous avenues- Las Ramblas, where throngs of people walk around a mostly pedestrian street, and where living statues, performers, artists, ...

... them as a megaphone and shout, ¨Estados Unidos es numero uno¨ They do that a lot. We walk down the main street here, Las Ramblas, and they shout it and talk loudly about how the United States is so much better than Europe. They say, especially ...

... and hot chocolate sauce.. They were ok, but drinking the thick hot chocolate, went down a treat. Isabel then headed for Las Ramblas, and we went through this sleazy little door, and we were in another bar which looked like it had a little forest growing ...

... filthy subway and were surrounded by the shouts of drunk Barcelonian youths. *Mullets in tow* Then we reached our stop and walked down Las Ramblas towards our hostel. I guess it was some kind of festival which made the streets even MORE packed but it ...

... of wine and desert: can't really complain about that, especially when the quality of food, wine and service is good. Our hostel was situated on Las Ramblas; the main tourist area. According to Sonya's guidebook, this is the number one place to get ...

Barcelona, Spain Things We Did: 1st Day- Slept in until dinnertime 1st Night- Strolled down Las Ramblas, watched local performers, including a band of gypsies playing "Guantanamera" Dinner on waterfront (I had the seafood paella ...

... accommodation at the Olivia Plaza Hotel.  The location was fantastic!  Basically, at the foot of Las Ramblas and the Barri Gotic Quarter and within walking distance of many major attractions, including shopping and ...

... ;Futbol Club Barcelona (which does not even compare to the MCG).  The Gaudi Park was also very memorable and Las Ramblas the main strip in Barcelona which today had an artist day with paintings everywhere, if only we had some more euros.  Over ...