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Le Merce, Sagrada Familia and Lovely old Barcelona
... ve stayed--rivaling NYC. We have a leather coach in our room, for goodness sake, not to mention the electronic black out shades. I mention this so that you will know what a sacrifice we made to get out early But sacrifice we did and started with a lovely honey croissant , fresh squeezed naranja zumo and of course cafe. Sagrada (Holy Family) is Antoni Gaudi's most famous work. He labored on this church beginning in 1883 until his death ...
Climb every Mountain .....
Thursday 19 July - Barcelona 30C
We caught the metro north to Lesseps which is near Park Guell. This is a large park on the side of a hill where Gaudi's house and garden is. Unfortunately when we arrived at the metro, we realised we didn’t have the Museum entry tickets with us so it was back to the apartment and another 92 step to climb to pick them up, an exhausting start to the day.
Second time around, when we got ...
Gaudi, gaudy and gorgeous
... like Gaudi. We have been following a group of school children on a school excursion, dutifully in a crocodile line, talking excitedly mostly oblivious of their surroundings. There have been lots of warnings about pickpockets in Barcelona, Bruce suggests if stay in this crocodile of excitable kids we can guarantee safety from potential thieves. From the plaza we weave our way though backstreets to the port and the statue of Christopher Columbus. Tall ...
The Old, The New, The Weird and a little Déjà vu
... Granada we figured that we’d want to visit Alhambra so we booked out tickets online that night. We were able to secure tickets for 9am on our preferred day and off we set.
As it turns out, Alhambra is a preserved palace that was built when southern Spain was under the rule of the Arabs. It was a large and impressive palace complex in the Arabic architectural style. While this may have been a major attraction for people who have ...
Trains planes and Barcelona
So we survived the Paragliding in Interlaken, and had a lot of fun!
That night we took a connecting train from Interlaken to Basel in Switzerland, where we were supposed to get another connecting train to the sleeper train in France. The first train ended up getting in late, which gave us a total of 5 minutes to get all the luggage off the train, head up the escalators to find the platform of the departing train, and head to the correct platform to catch the ...
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