B&B Girona
Portal de la Barca, 15, B-B Girona, Catalonia, 17004, Spain and Canary Islands
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Family time in Girona
Girona is a really nice, homey Spanish town not far from Barcelona. It is small and lacks the huge tourist draw of Barca so I thought it would be nice to take my family there during their visit to get away from the craziness of the big city! Girona is known for its incredibly well-preserved Roman wall that surrounds part of the city, as well as an ancient cathedral and other ...
Girona and Figures
... that had a long, brick wall to walk along and watch towers that we could climb up. From the view at the top of the fort, we could see the snowy covered French Alps in the distance. My first sighting of another country! We spent the day exploring the town and stopping cafes in for Irish coffee when needed to warm up a bit. Mid-afternoon we boarded the bus and took a short 30 minute ride to Figures. As we were pulling up ...
Can't Find the Words To Say
I am absolutely obsessed with this place.
You can see over the entire town. We were there right around sunset, and the way it painted parts of buildings gold was absolutely beautiful. It was such a reminder to me that this whole thing is His. It amazes me how many times in my life the words "wow" and "beautiful" seem so lacking and fail to describe the beauty of this world. He has created such a masterpiece.
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From one sort of 'mad' to another
From the Modernism that is evident in the architecture in Barcelona to the cubism and surrealism of Dali - all the creative senses have been pushed to their limits.
We left Barcelona early in the morning and headed toward the village of Figueras, where Salvidor Dali was born in 1904.
We went straight to the museum which Dali, himself created to store his work and the works of some of his closest artist friends. The building itself was ...
Todos tenemos un mambito, pero no como el de Dalí
Bismil-lahi ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
Día de lluvia, pero esa lluvia finita que molesta a lo largo de todo el día y no llega a imponerse así con mucha presencia. Nos fuimos a Figueras con el tren desde Barcelona Sants y aunque quisimos dormir un ratito, decidimos mejor jugar a votar quiénes son más ruidosos y gritones, los catalanes o los italianos… debido a que estábamos fastidiosas porque no ...


