Barcelona, Spain Travel Blogs

Time With Libby
Jun 28, 2004 (5 photos)

... Libby who were screaming. I was standing at a safe distance in case there was more sudden screaming. Our first night in Barcelona, Libby had made plans with some friends of friends to go swimming. "Going swimming" turned out to be underwater hockey. ...

Barcelona, Spain
Mar 7, 2008 (20 photos)

... 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 ...

Spain: Adventures in Catalonia Country
Jun 29, 2004

... we convinced ourselves that this was the city´s way of saying congratulations, by providing randomly placed musicians around the neighborhoods of Barcelona to serenade us. The next day, we took the train to Monserrat, a mountain famous for a collection of ...

Cool and Cozy in Catalonya
Nov 29, 2007 (40 photos)

... nature and imaginative playfulness. I adored it. I then made time to stroll the marina and the crowded alleyways, view Barcelona´s gothic cathedral, illumined by hundreds of red glass candles as well as devout pilgrims and parishioners attending mass, walk ...

Circus Circus.
Nov 12, 2006 (15 photos)

... In Las Vegas you get free drinks if you play in a Casino while in Barcelona you have to pay to enter, hmmm... All in all, Barcelona definitively got something to it, but I must however say that I prefer Madrid. Maybe that's a bit unfair to say, since I ...

Almost Like South America
Nov 14, 2007 (38 photos)

... 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 ...

Going home
Feb 18, 2007 (4 photos)

... . We enjoyed a coffee and some Portuguese pastries, before taking the plane on the final leg of our journey to Barcelona. We arrive at the airport to a mix of tears and joy from Patricia's family who had come to collect us. It ...

Barcelona
Oct 21, 2007 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Barcelona: Gaudilicious
Jun 20, 2006 (38 photos)

... 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 hurt yourself. ...

Let's get ready to Rumblas...
Sep 11, 2006 (87 photos)

... and with vintage Ronaldinho class, elegantly skipped past one defender and delivered a wonderful finish into the top corner. Barcelona 5 - Levski Sofia 0. Gaudi 1 - Ronaldinho 1. But really - how do you compare the impact of an individual has by his ...

Wacky architecture, sangria, tapas & thieves
Aug 10, 2008 (53 photos)

... so bring your cameras!)   We learnt more that evening than just how mix a mean sangria. We also learnt Barcelona is a thieves paradise after Inge-Marie's handbag got stolen from the restaurant. We were warned that pickpockets and thieves are in ...

Gaudí's Barcelona
Mar 8, 2005 (4 photos)

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 ...

Porto to Barcelona
Jan 24, 2008

... 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 ...

Living la vida loca-ish
May 16, 2007 (1 photos)

JJ and Christelle have a great apartment right next to the beach.  We spend most of the day working (this mainly involves reading, subscribing to most e-newsletters in the name of research and hoping for some sort of inspiration/money to come our way ...

Diary Finished - Clint's Thoughts so far...
Sep 29, 2005 (1 photos)

... 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 ...

Barcelona
Sep 6, 2005 (12 photos)

We had a very wet day travelling to Barcelona and had originally planned to get of the bus in Avignon, France to stay for a few days and explore some of the coastal towns in the Languedoc-Roussillon region but being so wet and miserable we just had an hour ...

Barcelona - another country within Spain
Jul 5, 2008 (25 photos)

... across Spain, can also be observed in the fact that it is even very difficult to find restaurants of Spain's Latin American colonies. Barcelona however is not Castillian, it is Catalan, and its openness to the world is immediately visible. The city's ...

Drinks and Cards at the Hostel
Sep 29, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 big, ...

Habla Espanol?
Sep 4, 2006 (33 photos)

... Ios though and the possibility of La Tomatina was there and I had plenty of empty hours to daydream over a European map, Barcelona became more realistic. I've already said the experience of La Tomatina alone was worth the hell of overnight trains to and ...

All inspiring Gaudi!
Sep 26, 2005 (18 photos)

... ; After a bit of shut eye we wondered slowly through the streets to La Rambla.  This is the most famous streets in Barcelona.  Its apparently the most pick pocketed place in all of Europe!  - Hands on pockets here...  There are so ...

Gaudi Gaudi Gaudi
Oct 29, 2007 (77 photos)

Day 12 Barcelona - 29 October 2007 Beautiful day.  We get off a little later than expected - 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 ...

Leaving Barcelona
Jul 19, 2004 (4 photos)

... hear, mate?¨ in my best Australian accent. They cheered and were satisfied that I was an Aussie through and through. Barcelona was a trip alright, I became Australian, Justen became Italian American, we partied every night till dawn, met lots of American ...

7 hours in a Spainish Prison.
May 3, 2003 (7 photos)

... thing here and there and I guess you learn by your mistakes and all - but I am not sure what I did when I went from Barcelona to Madrid to deserve imprisonment like this. Where was the embassy when I needed them! As I mentioned in my previous tale, I ...

BARCELONA
Dec 2, 2007 (38 photos)

... into power during the Spanish Civil War, Catalonians were suppressed in Franco's desire to unite all of Spain.    Geographically, Barcelona is quite like Los Angeles.  It has the mountains and the beach and the weather is warm ...

Spain
Oct 21, 2007

... more metropolitan but was still in touch with the laid back tapas life. It also had a starbucks on every corner we think. Barcelona is the definition of Spanish sass. They definitely know how to live life. It was hard to decide our favourite place here so ...

Aimlessness, Part Deux
Jul 15, 2004 (6 photos)

... sink and toilet (even though the toilet doesn´t work). Sorry I don´t have anything more exciting to talk about. We have been in Barcelona for one day and two nights now and haven´t really done anything except go to clubs at night. Yesterday we said that we ...

One Gaudi City
Apr 15, 2007 (23 photos)

... containing Barcelona, has a bit of a lisp when pronouncing the letter "s." Barcelona becomes Barthona. Gracias becomes grathiath pretty much everywhere in Spain. Zaragoza becomes Tharagotha. Cigarettes become thigaretth, which would prove to be pretty ...

Venus and her Entourage of Hungry Ducks
Nov 3, 2006 (34 photos)

... our exquisite veggie falafel lunch, we headed towards Parc de la Ciutadella. We got off on the Arc de Triomf metro station where Barcelona's Arch of Triumph greeted us as soon as we peaked our heads out from underground. Of course, how could a great city ...

Sunshine and Travels
Feb 20, 2006 (4 photos)

... seeing new things, finding my way, different ideas, different people, saying "hello" in a new language,.. in short I love travel. Barcelona is a nice city, and my favourite part of the whole place? Sunshine. I didnt realise how much I had missed my old ...

Burning Giraffes and Butterfly Knives
Jul 24, 2006 (4 photos)

... is a genius and a lunatic, and I came away very impressed. "I do not take drugs. I am drugs." I carried on to Barcelona and stayed the night in a good hostel. They have free internet, which is what I´m using now. Unfortunately, they´re fully booked ...