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Spain Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Barcelona, Spain, Spain and Canary Islands
Barcelona, Spain Day 3 - Tibidabo
This is a top pick! ... we all hit the sack. A great day today. Both the kids were thrilled, the park entry was discounted because of the Barcelona Card thing we have, and it was perfectly sized ... big enough to be a great experience, but not so big that it was overwhelming or ...
Barcelona, Spain Day 5 - La Sagrada Familia
This is a top pick! ... . Its so cute, Samuel and Ella got these kid's version Swiss Army Knife type things on the SpanAir flight we caught in to Barcelona, ... and Samuel is obsessed with it. Always wants it. Always holding it. Loves playing with it. ... Its pretty cool. Has a ...
Barcelona, Spain Day 4 - Free Museums for us!
This is a top pick! ... to home across from the Cathedral. Ambiance is nice. Food just ok. I have found a new favorite in Barcelona. "Bravas". French Fries with a spicy sauce and a bit of sour-cream, mayonnaise type stuff. Really yummy. Then, back home, and another go at the ...
Barcelona, Spain Day 2 - Beaches & a scary evening
This is a top pick! ... Skype at the same time I am and I send him a chat message joking, "dude. In a back alley in Barcelona. Thugs nearby. If anything goes down, i'm texting you and you call the cops. : )". We trade some more joking messages back and forth ... and then I see ...
Time With Libby
This is a top pick! ... our hostel with no problems. We were meeting Sarah´s younger sister Elizabeth (Libby) there (she is spending a summer in Spain for school) and Sarah, even in her slightly hungover state from our last day in Berlin, was vibrating with excitement. I ...
Spain: Adventures in Catalonia Country
This is a top pick! ... We spent a whole afternoon with two of the Spaniards we kept stalk... I mean ¨running into¨ in Vietnam. Sonia and Enric took us on a Barcelona walking tour, complete with a fabulous tapas lunch. It happened to coincide with the Day of Music put ...
Cool and Cozy in Catalonya
This is a top pick! ... a big plaza, where major streets intersect. Upon noticing that there seemed to be a lot of motorscooters and motorbikes parked here, I later learned that Barcelona has indeed the most motorcycles of any European city, due to the constant good climate. ...
My Holiday in Barcelona
This is a top pick! Earlier this month I went to Barcelona with my wife, Laynni, and her parents, Lyle and Nadine. Barcelona is a beautiful city with really nice buildings and a swell beach. It was a very fun place with a lot of nice people. We really enjoyed it. Tuesday The ...
A rainy drive down the spanish coast.
This is a top pick! ... golf as we returned it to Europcar. Our driving through Spain is done (for now). We drove close to 3500 KM between Marseilles and Barcelona, so I guess we took a bit of a detour. After returning the car we took the subway back to the neighborhood of ...
Barcelona, Spain Day 1 - Arrival and La Rambla
This is a top pick! ... in a very special way. ... But, I will be honest, I'm also quite excited about the next leg of our journey. Next stop ... Barcelona, Spain ... just a quick 45 minute plane ride away. As soon as we land in Barcelona, its clear that 'we aren't in Kansas ...
Barcelona, Such a beautiful City
This is a top pick! ... So we went onwards back into the subway. We surfaced near to 'La Rambla' area. This is the buzzing center of Barcelona, and apparently pick-pocket central in the evening. The street was filled with touristic eateries and souvenir shops so we headed ...
Circus Circus.
This is a top pick! So I have just ticked off one of my other European must see cities. From Thursday to Sunday I spent a long weekend in Barcelona with Erik and Fredrik, two childhood friends from Norway. Barcelona, a city I still had not visited, but always wanted to see. ...
Almost Like South America
This is a top pick! ... surcharge. And finally, the ticket was mine at triple the cost as advertised. Great scam eh? So I arrived in Barcelona Spain only to realize that I was back in South America again. Or so it seemed... I was surrounded by ...
Barcelona, Spain
This is a top pick! ... that is the symbol of Barcelona, La Temple De La Sagrada Familia. This cathedral was the work of one of Barcelona (and Spain's) most famous architect, Antoni Gaudi. The temple is breathtakingly large and hasn't been completed, even though it's been under ...
Going home
This is a top pick! ... know where to start our conversation, we have so much to talk about after so long apart. We'll be here in Spain for a few weeks until we see on the BBC weather forecast that the temperature in London has gone above ...
Let's get ready to Rumblas...
This is a top pick! ... , but the temporary exhibition also featured pianos: smashed, painted with erotic images, with chandeliers dropped upon them. Miro and pianos... In some ways, Barcelona has been a bit of a struggle. A struggle to see everything - somehow a week not ...
Barcelona
This is a top pick! ... that we were the only ones on the mountain. Just incredible. A fitting way to end our tour of Spain! We finished off the evening back in Barcelona with a local beer and an assorted tapas plate before we got organized for another big travel day ...
Wacky architecture, sangria, tapas & thieves
This is a top pick! ... little story is so ironic after my entry on crime in South Africa as even a stable first world European country like Spain is not immune to crime. And it seems this is not a small problem as the queues at the police station proved. This is such a common ...
Barcelona: Gaudilicious
This is a top pick! ... the roof that you come here to see. Huge tubercles of sculpted ventilation towers and chimneys rise above you and create one of Barcelona's most recognisable skyline sights but watch out for the stairs over the undulating surface or you could seriously ...
Good Gaudi
This is a top pick! ... last year's consecration, which was performed by Pope Benedict XVI, there were 6,500 members of the flock on hand, which included Spain's King and Queen, 100 bishops and 300 priests. There are, I believe, ten Gaudi works in the magnificent ...
Diary Finished - Clint's Thoughts so far...
This is a top pick! ... through this travelling experience, and have travelled through 16 of the 19 countries i've set out to see. I am still sitting in Barcelona, a spot i've managed to find to be on my own to spill out my thoughts to paper. Travelling in the manner ...
Porto to Barcelona
This is a top pick! ... time - Murphy's Law. Today we start a complicated return to our own part of the world, with a flight from Porto to Barcelona, then connecting tomorrow with a flight to Singapore which connects to a flight to Bangkok where we pick up a car to take us to ...
Gaudí's Barcelona
This is a top pick! The traffic in Barcelona is mad. When we were in Spain in 1998 I refused to drive. Death wish. No change there then. 2005 and I still didn't feel the need to get behind the wheel. Especially in the brand new hire car with no insurance, the steering ...
Living la vida loca-ish
This is a top pick! ... but it is more expensive and touristy than we recall and we are skinflints these days. Instead go to a lovely cheap restau with them both. Head back to the UK browner than we arrived and feel like we have had a holiday - like we needed ...
Drinks and Cards at the Hostel
This is a top pick! ... asked alot of questions about my home Australia. She was down in bercelona studying Latin American. INFO: Barcelona is the only city in Spain to speak Latin America, the rest of spain speak 'Spanish'. This night club was rediculously ...
All inspiring Gaudi!
This is a top pick! ... laugh and a great time :o) i'm writing this entry with intentions of definitely coming back! When first arriving in Barcelona we rocked up at the trainstation and was completely confused with how to buy a ticket here! Thankgod some other bloke saw us ...