AC Gava Mar Barcelona

... alright and crossed our fingers. Luck for us it was really nice and we had a quiet dinner sitting outside drinking freshly made Sangria. It was really nice and only cost us 13 Euros for the both of us. We wandered back to the hostel and crawled into bed at about 1am. The hostel was still going and the receptionist was getting ****** with the rest of the guys; it was great fun to watch.

The first night in the dorm was interesting. One of the other guys staying in the ...

... by U.S. Customs standards so further investigation will be necessary but things look promising!!! :)
As Mom and Dad said, part way down Las Ramblas we found the magnificent fresh marketplace. The whole area was filled with so much life! The fruit and veggie stands were all so vivid in color, the smell of fresh fish pungeant in the air, the meat so red and wet looking, the candies an explosion of color and shapes and the chocolates absolutely mouth ...

Arrived from Paris story of my stolen bag: so on the night train down i saw people all around me settling in for the night with their bags everywhere, so i put mine in a rack above my head and tied one of the straps down, then unwisely put earplugs in and went to sleep... anyway, i woke up late in the night because the train had stopped somewhere between paris and barcelona and saw some stuff scattered next to me and realized it was from my bag - that ...

... and cured food and, most important, places to eat. You won´t believe this, but Dick and I sat down and ordered, salivating all the while, and who would sit right next to us but a couple from Portland! You know what I am going to say--small world. Traveling is hard work! We walk and then we walk some more; we bus it; Dick cheats and taxis it. We fall in bed exhausted by night. But ...

... Albert and Laura who are from the Barcelona area and we set out to see the city and have a little lunch. We find a cool little pizzeria where amongst other interesting things the coke bottles were written in German.

Albert and Laura are both musicians and Albert is lugging around his violin after an audition so the two of them take that back to his apartment and Katherine and I walk around the city center and the palm tree-lined marina. Always good to ...

... just a football club. It has also for years been a symbol of Catalan nationalism and (back in the middle of the last century) of socialist resistance to Franco's military rule. As we walked to Camp Nou, we discussed who we would cheer for. Alec, normally a front-runner faithless enough to shock a Philadelphia football fan (earlier on the trip he threw both Chelsea and AC Milan under the bus when they fell out of the top of the table in their respective ...

... nyuck). Nicole got a tomato and mozzarella salad to start. It was so delicious that I think my taste buds changed so that now I enjoy the flavor profile. Ivan got a five-cheese salad, and I got a standard mixed green salad that in reality was not standard, but AMAZING! lol Me with my Texas-sized salad. For dinner, Nicole enjoyed these tender veal medallions and a side of ...

... Rohe Poble Espanyol MNAC Anella Olimpica Funicular de Montjuïc Fundacio Joan Miro Miramar - Jardins Costa i Llobera World Trade Center Colom - Museu Maritim Port Vell Museu d'Historia de Catalunya Port Olimpic Place de la Citadel - Zoo Pla de Palau Barri Gotic Forum Route (Green Line): Port Olimpic Platja del Bogatell Forum Parc Diagonal Mar Poblenou

... me), visited the chapel (I must say it must be for the players' last-minute prayers) and the museum. The highlight of the musuem was a chance to take a ...

... Quite grand, and apparently not exclusively french anymore. A few blocks up Passage Sant Joan, I stopped in at a bank to change some traveller´s cheques. Wow! I am never traveling with those again. It took almost 20 minutes to change 3 travelers cheques! The woman at the bank talked to her boss for a few minutes deciding whether it was possible to change them there, and then she had to call I´m assuming Visa in Canada or the US to authorize it, and then had to ...