Apartamentos Marfina Castelldefels
Paseo Maritimo 165 Castelldefels, Catalonia, 08860, Spain and Canary Islands
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Santa Tecla to La Merce
... measure of how having a good time was the order of the day was emphasised when a group of 20 or so people of pensionable age, almost certainly locals, started line-dancing at the edge of the crowd and to the left of the stage, to a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Rising'. Now I'm now admirer of the line dance as a form of artistic expression and I'm not that keen on CCR either, but this was marvellous. The line dance was contagious and lots of people tried to join ...
Caminando Caminandote....
Yesterday, after the rain had tricked us until believing it was gone, we went out to buy some provisions for lunch and for the apartment. Needless to say all the produce in this country is so tasty- tomatoes taste like tomatoes, milk like how milk should taste, you guys know what I mean. We walked to a nearby Dia, one of the names for one of the supermercados here. We bought everything from jamón crudo to vino to shampoo! You ...
Blue Light District
A few more things to add about France
- Cars do some crazy stuff on the roads there. Drivers will be beeping their horns at traffic when there is literally no chance of moving anywhere anyway. They will also park in whatever spot they can find. We saw a number of cars parallel parked with no chance of getting out as the other cars were so close. We also saw a number of cars parked across corners of streets sticking out onto the road every which way.
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Off on our cruise
... for train was 10 minutes once and that was only because we decided the train that arrived within 2 minutes was the wrong one – it wasn't! Mostly we waited for no more than 3 minutes for any train. We hopped on and off different types of trains and our Barcelona card worked on them all. The cost of the card was around 33 euro each for 3 days. In that time we probably took around 50 train trips – got free admission to two tourist events and a discounted ...
Las Ramblas, Picasso, Columbus and Rain!!!
... Catalunya and proceeded to wander down Las Ramblas, a predominantly pedestrian boulevard that stretches down to the water front. It is a beautiful street. Cars and buses are limited to single lanes on the outer parts of the boulevard and a very large area in between, lined with trees, is reserved for walking. Except for its reputation as being a magnet for pick pockets, it is a ...


