Hostal Benidorm Barcelona

... in his own distinct fashion. A few years later, the city bought the estate for use as a public park.

The park is guarded by a mosaic dragon/lizard, leading to an enormous plaza (Sala Hipostila), the entire perimeter of which contains a curving mosaic bench (called the Banc de Trenadis). Leading away from the Sala, you reach a forest of 84 stone columns (some of them leaning), once intended for use as a market. We sat under these columns for a while and ...

... I skate on by.

The flight is fine. There is a very efficient “metro” to get me to Barcelona. I check into my hostel which is on the outskirts of the “active” area. It is clean, efficient … but the location will make it difficult to go out for a low key drink or meal. With the afternoon, I explore the Old Town. Beautiful buildings from the 1400s onward.

... having a hard time communicating. Finally I just pointed to my ring and said, 'sorry but it was nice meeting you' and waved as I walked away.

I don't know if you all have realized it yet, but many of you have been with me my whole trip. Whenever someone comes up to me and asks me if I'm alone it's always 'no, i was just on my way to meet __fill in the blank___' (whoever's on my mind at that time). I've found mom and sister are not to effective in detering ...

... a great time at night hopping to a couple different tapas bars for dinner and then hung out till late. We started Sunday bright and early to take advantage of the weekend. We took the bus to Parc Guell and got another amazing view of the whole city. The day was sunny and clear so you could see pretty far out to the sea. The rest of the ...

... that we would have to cut back otherwise we would run out of money before the end of our trip. So now we were ready to embrace Barcelona! Strolling down Les Rambles we were amazed at the number of buskers all drawing in crowds. The La Boqueria market showed off some of the freshest seafood we'd seen-it was still moving! That evening we took a Spanish cooking class. We were taught how to make sangria ...

... get on as two buses seemed to be going to exactly the same place. Once on the correct bus we left at 10.30pm. The bus was horrendously uncomfortable, there was no leg room what so ever and the driver had the aircon on so it was boiling hot, there was also a woman behind who for the whole journey continually coughed up flem, nice! After the first 8 hour leg was done we made the change and the second bus was slightly ...

... looking at the statues and watching the impressive human towers being created in one of the plazas before making our way to the Irish bar to watch the parade from the window! As I've said, the human towers were impressive! Teams of around forty people arranged themselves into a pyramid formation with adults forming the base and children forming the top. (The child at the very top was about five years old- tiny!) They seemed ...

... nonstop. love the stuff!! I broke the 'dont stand still in spain for more than 30 seconds' rule the other afternoon. but it worked out well. got picked up by a brazilian called manuel who took me on a personal pub crawl. so avoided british backpackers and got to see the hidden hotspots in barcelona. aaand got some free drinks. haha. was really fun. he tried to teach me to ...

DAY 4 - Bordeaux to Barcelona, Spain Another long day in transit. Stopped on the way to Barcelona at Cite de Carcassonne for a long lunch (more crepes!), shopping and walked around the old castle on the cobbled streets and took in the medieval villagey feel. You could buy real swords and crossbows in the many little shops. We were up for it, but don't think customs would be. JHOLA!! We got to Barcelona, Spain in the afternoon, and checked into ...

... machines in their elementary schools. After it's all said and done most people in reasonable circumstances are quite nice. Although I did find it coincidental that one of the german guys made a point about not liking the one israeli in the class. I screamed "Nazi" and he didn't flinch. I liked them all for individual reasons. Alright I'll talk more about Barcelona later. I mean I've been here 2 months. A little has happened. Pictures have been taken. Goodnight.