Pension Francia Barcelona

... critic group meets at 10:30 so it will be good to meet some of the people i have been talking to for the last few months. Hopefully tomorrow we will have some great stories of Monaco..weather has been great..almost too hot in the 80's and blue skies. Will miss Barcelona..what a vibrant place and the people are so much fun. They love living there!!!

... Even after a few days was very hard to believe, although this helped it to sink in. He was a legend.<br><br>(Another hidden gem moment of the trip - after noticing a cockroach walking across an MJ flag, Chris remembered La Cucaracha! He then had a hardly understandable conversation with a local who tried to teach him the rest of the lyrics. Gold.)<br><br>Monday we ventured to Park Guell to see some more of Gaudi's architectural ...

... day we walked through Barcelona and hiked far up into the mountains and hills of the city. We had beautiful weather and got to see some amazing views. We went to Park Guell which is a park designed by Gaudi filled with crazy architecture and mosaics. We saw the Sagrada Familia, a beautiful church in the middle of the city. We went to this bar called the Dow Jones, where the stock market in the bar regulated the drink prices. We ...

... three month. I flew to Granada via Barcelona, where I had three hours of waiting or so, most of that time spend listening to The Hobbit on my iPod, it was too depressing to look out the window. I arrived in Granada almost one hour late, so it was midnight before I arrived at the hostel, on top of the hill in Albayzin, a very nice and pretty neighbourhood, where thing look old, but well-kept. Best, Eva Maria

... we were already worn out. Barcelona is the busiest city yet!!! We decided to head down to the Mediterranean for a break and get our wits about us. At the beach we met a teacher from Edmonton on a school excursion with his students. Great chat and nice break from struggling with Spanish. Our first impression with Barcelona was to get the heck out. But once we were refreshed from our beach walk and settled into the groove of Barcelona ...

... This is a closed market that is supposedly one of the best in Europe. With my non expert opinion, I would have to agree. At La Boqueria we ate our first Spanish meal pictured here. Late that night was also our first introduction to Tapas, the Spanish snacks that are eaten before dinner which is not usually eaten until 9 or 10 PM. Both activities were a great culinary introduction (my ...

After lunch at Montpellier we cought the train to Barcelona. Took about 5 hours. Arrived at about 10pm and couldn't find the street for our hotel - it wasn't where I thought it was going to be from the maps I'd used! Eventually found the hotel just after 11pm.

... lots of singed eyebrows! before the actual correfoc was childrens correfoc, which is kinda like the 9 o'clock fireworks, but with the kids themselves setting of the fireworks - spanish safety standards again ;) then on sunday we went to see the castellers, who are teams of people who build human towers, up to 8 or 9 levels high. they were amazing to see, especially the tiny child who gets to perch on top of the tower with a ...

... so we heated that up as well. An interesting combination, but we were so hungry that anything would have been good. We were about half way through eating when Simon showed up to join us. After dinner, he washed dishes so we could start downloading the hundreds of pictures we had taken during the day. After downloading, we headed back out to ...

So, with all that now done, we hit the road back to Barcelona. After dropping the car off there wasnt much day left. This time we went to another restaurant along La Ramblas, for our last meal in Spain. Unfortunately it wasnt a patch on the other ones we had been to. We tried champagne sangria, but decided we liked the wine one better. The next day we packed up and set off for Sagrida Familiar, the famous Gaudi-style church in Barcelona. By ...