Barcelona Dreams
Travel Blogs from Barcelona
SO very much to update!
So on the 3rd, I had the Fantastic Four come by Madrid to visit me: Danny, Linda, Sharon, and Jimmy. Two days in Madrid to see whatever there is to see seemed like it would suffice but unfortunately, jet lag kicks into the weary travellers. Their hostel in the center of Madrid at the Puerta del SOL where we would have easy access to a lot of the …
Barcelona - Exploding
We decided to stay about 20 minutes outside of the main city of Barcelona, it was quite a cool little suburb with a great beach/ocean (still no waves) not far from the hostel that was full of locals but not the 1000's of people you find at bacelonetta. After dumping our stuff at the hostel we headed to the ocean which was very pretty but damn cold …
The last city in Europe before Australia!
Dimanche, voyage de ***** dans lautobus, jenvie les gens qui sont capable de dormir nimporte comment. moi jai des fourmis dans les pieds, des spasmes dans les jambes, en plus de tousser, de m etre cracher 3 poumons et probablement de deranger tous le monde lol si jai dormi 2 hrs sur 8 cest deja bon!
mais bon jarrive a Barcelona! oh yeah! jai vraiment hate de visiter cette ville, jai entendu que du bien de cette partie de ...
Biking in Barcelona
... back to the apartment where we stopped at a supermarket (called supermercats in spanish which Drew keeps calling super- meer-cats) to get supplies to make roast chicken sandwiches which were yummy. After lunch in the apartment we got ready for the beach and caught the metro and then a funicular up to the big mountain next to us and the beach. From here we took the big cable car down that spans over ...
Gaudi Genius
... but i don't have time to talk about them all now. Just that i am now a huge Gaudi fan. The next Gaudi stop was the Park Guell. This was orgiinally intended to be a housing estate. It is huge and now it only a public park. Gaudi has his touches everywhere, from the seating (again, very comfortable and functional) to the layout of the park with its curved roads and strange fantasy creatures. His use of mosaics make a great impact and set the atmosphere of fun. Great ...