Acta Antibes Barcelona

Travel Blogs from Barcelona

First 24 hours

A travel blog entry by christieelee

... br> 2 hours later, got off near a recommended place to eat and found it overflowing with people trying to get a seat when the nearby places were plentiful...so i put my name in and walked back to the hotel to shower and change for dinner only to arrive back just as they were calling my name...Senora Christie!!

I enjoyed my wine and the wonderful company and forced myself to return to the hotel to get things ready for the trip tomorrow and try to get some sleep.
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Culture vultures

A travel blog entry by elfabroad

We spent the day queing for the Picasso museum which was most definatly worth the wait, changed my opinions of his work. I'm now a huge fan of his early work.
More Gaudi this time his most epic undertaking-the Sagrada Familia. I can't wait to come back in 30 years ...

Got to See

A travel blog entry by ostrowski

... is the most visited monument in all of Spain. At the present rate of construction , hopefully, the church will be completed in the 2020's.

Park Guell was visited next. This was a tree covered hillside which Gaudi was supposed to create a miniature city of houses for the wealthy, in landscaped grounds. The project was not successful and the city bought the estate in 1922 to use as a public ...

Barthelona

A travel blog entry by tobybriggs

... there it was just a waiting game until I got word. Ended up waiting for 2 days so I can't complain too much.

We took the aerobus into the city and made our way to the hostel on Diagonal and dropped our bags (haha, not a plural for me). We then made our way down to the beach to meet up with Mary who was a friend of Will’s back in Adelaide. When we got down there was 2-3 foot swell rolling in and a heap of surfers out! Given it is in the Mediterranean it was ...

Harbour city

A travel blog entry by kata1207

... was pretty obvious that BCN was the most expensive city I've been to in my life. Oops.

I kept walking to the end of the street and missed Gaudi's architecture. I found something better though - a harbour!!!!! As an Aucklander, I have always lived close by the sea (well, Pinehill isn't exactly 'close' but it's still a bus ride away from beaches) and crosssed the Harbour Bridge ...