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Barcelona Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Barcelona, Spain and Canary Islands
Bodysurfing in the Med?
... it. But for a little kid, the physical exertion pays a price, and that price is early evening crankiness. Only in Spain, 'early evening' is ten at night and smack in the middle of pizza. Back at the apartment we played Catch Phrase on the IPAD, which has ...
"We'll Figure it Out"
... 'merica and we set out in search of transport to Burgos. The earliest bus was too late so we went over to the train station and were able to get tickets for an earlier time. Shortly we were on our way to Burgos, soon to embark upon the next ...
Cold.. Cold... Cold....... Getting warmer....
... the rest of the city. Where I go from here is still a mystery, although I did reserve a ticket to the south of spain, and then to Lisbon, I may change my plans. Sorry for the choppy sentances, my time is almost up at thi internet cafe and I ...
Restart
... . Surely I don't want to give up on the Tour de France fun! So the plan is that like that: I stay another night in Barcelona In the morning, I leave all the stuff at the hotel and try to ride to Andorra, and stay there for a night. Then, ...
Dopo una settimana in questa cittą
Barcellona in Italia viene dipinta come la cittą perfetta. Daniele l'inverno scorso mentre passeggiavamo sulla piazza di San Cosimato a Trastevere diceva che a Barcellona non si vedono le auto in doppia fila, non si passa in alcun caso con il rosso, non ...
Barcelona Airport
Worst flight ever. Delayed about 3 hrs with no apologies from Easyjet. Most uncomfortable seats in the history of ...
Barcelona
... 50 reads and just from yesterday. We thought it might of been a mistake but then I remembered how greatly loved and popular we are. So onto our time in Barcelona hmmm well Its been very lazy it feels like we haven't really done anything. The first day we ...
Architecture Heaven!
... (my favourite drink in the whole world) from 11am on The Ramblas-the main strip in Barcelona. Always entertaining watching the locals and tourists experience anything and everything! Saw the Sagrada Familia construction again, i think it has about 15 ...
I love Gaudi - parte 2
... ou procurem no google). Sai realmente encantada. Depois disso decidi voltar pro albergue. Nao sei mais se mencionei antes mas em Barcelona tava fazendo um calor digno de Rio de Janeiro, entao as caminhadas se tornavam bem mais cansativas. Como eu tava ...
Celtic Fever
... competitor's not even share the same language, that's different as well. I was chanting, your damn right I was chanting for Barcelona and against these Celtic monstrosities; "vive barca, vive catalunya!!!!! " I counted- 5 bloody fists, 2 public displays ...
The boat trip begins
... bar, jacuzzi, open bar, shows, open bar, disco... did I say open bar?) It was so incredible to look at the horizon and see nothing but a line, feel in the middle of nowhere til the second night when we finally saw the lights of approaching Tunisia from ...
Bumming around Barcelona
Here we are now, back in Spain, but this time in Barcelona! Joe and I arrived after a short flight from Porto, and it seemed like we had been out of a big city for ages. Barcelona is a big city rich with culture. There are loads of museums and concert ...
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.....
Well, a mile long walk pulling my luggage uphill, 4 buses, 1 Plane, 1 Train, and 1 Taxi later, I made it to Barcelona! As European travel days go, this one was fairly easy actually, aside from the usual airport price gouging and not knowing really where I ...
Barcelona...
Got into Barcelona yesterday afternoon and managed the metro. Pav and I met up with a kiwi on the train, rather good meet actually, so Matua joined our company and we have become the three compadres of sorts. Barcelona last night... well. Not so ...
Barcelona - 2005/06
We spent some days on Christmas with our family from Barcelona. It was a nice time! Our cousins prepared a big surprise with a karts competition which was really ...
Barcelona - 2006/07
We came back to Barcelona on Christmas time again. Lucia, Carmen and Pol (our little cousins) enjoyed the "Caga-tió" on 26th. Caga-tió is a Catalan mythological wooden fella who has to be fed since the beginning of December. When this little guy is ...
Travel Day to Barcelona
... the train and settled in for the 5 hour trip to Madrid, then an hour layover to switch to the highspeed train to Barcelona, which I am looking forward to. There was a family with two kids that were in first class. I became a little ...
The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly In the Plain...Not!
... L'Estartit's attraction is a deep expansive sandy beach, one of the largest in the Costa Brava coast where Barcelona residents and other Catalans (this province of Spain is Catalunya) come to R & R. There are many such small pretty resort towns which dot ...
Parc Guell - Another of Gaudi's Masterpieces
... nature and uses a lot of leave and plants in his architecture.. this park is the perfect example. Originally it was on the outskirts of Barcelona, but as the city grew up around it, it is now very central! The walk to the park is almost all uphill, it ...
Valo in Barcelona
... planned to have breakfast at the Boqueria Market (like the St. Lawrence Market in TO), but it was obviously closed when we arrived - SPAIN! We wandered for over an hour trying to find something to eat and ended up at Pans & Company (the Spanish version ...
Hola Barcelona!
... we didn't as we didn't have towels. The sand was burning our feet. It was a scorching hot day. Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain, after capital Madrid. It has a population of 1.6 million. It feels very urban and crowded.I noticed ...
we made it to barcelona
... it was sappose to only take 8hr) but it was longer since we stopped in every rinky dink town from malaga, the bottom of spain to barcelona....than of course it was a struggle to find where we were sappose to stay but luckely we ran into someone who spoke ...
Gaudi or Gaudy?
... late and only had a few hours before Graham had to be at the conference. We decided to set out and explore the modern architecture that Barcelona is so famous for. Following Rick Steve's advice we headed to the Eixample district of Barcelona. The Eixample ...
GAUDI!..... bless you
... had a guy Marc and his girlfriend Alba come stay with me in Santa Barbara (couch surfing). They both are from Spain and Marc lives and goes to school in Barcelona. so when Dora had a four day weekend we figured it was about time we called in the favor ...
InterRail n Night Train
... , again to Barcelona. In that time we reasoned that we would rather get further away so looked at other options and found that we could do a night train from Barcelona to Zurich. Perfect! So here we are, after a short-ish ride to Barcelona (where we again ...
Bern, Bern!!!
... make a sacrifice. Enjoys the Spanish culture so much, that i just took a trip to the local McDonald's. Ahhh Viva la Spain. But you need some good greasy food sometimes. Again the photos take way to long to upload so ill attempted again ...
Final day
What a pretty city and great architecture! Took a tour bus around town,hop on hop off as we only had the ...
The ballet
... and when it does all you can hear is the tapping of their feet on the floor as they run off stage - bit distracting and breaks the illusion somewhat. I was not particularly impressed with the first number. They had a 30 minute break after it. ...
How one man and his guitar saved a city...
... for the last 5 years in order to move to (funny enough) Australia! We had a good chat about differences in culture in Spain and Latin America. He had an interesting take on the matter and pointed out that people in Europe tend to be quite ...