Carlemany Girona
Placa Miquel Santalo Girona, Catalonia, 17002, Spain and Canary Islands
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Wait...it keeps getting more beautiful!
This weekend IES Barcelona went on a huge "study journey" (it's college speak for field trip) to Costa Brava. The map you're seeing only lets me put one location, which is whack because in the course of three days I've been to six different towns. But most of them show up on that map.
Friday morning came way too soon for my group, which …
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From one sort of 'mad' to another
From the Modernism that is evident in the architecture in Barcelona to the cubism and surrealism of Dali - all the creative senses have been pushed to their limits.
We left Barcelona early in the morning and headed toward the village of Figueras, where Salvidor Dali was born in 1904.
We went straight to the museum which Dali, himself created to store his work and the works of some of his closest artist friends. The building itself was ...
Trips from Lagrasse
... this buffet was seriously impressive. It was a good way to sample a few exotic French delicacies (like snails) without having to sheepishly send back unfinished plates at a more conventional restaurant.
We celebrated the end of this wonderful chapter with a trip to the tiny town of Fontjoncouse to dine at its flash restaurant, Le Vieux Puits; a 3 Michelin star affair. The food was excellent but didn’t quite reach the heights of some of Sydney’s ...
Olot and Besalu
From Girona, we went a day trip to a couple of towns a bit higher up in the Pyrenees. Our initial hope was to stay for a couple of nights in Olot to use it as a base for a bit of hiking, but our inquiries at the tourist information office quickly made it apparent that a car would be necessary to get around to do the hikes. Not to be dissuaded, we decided to hop on the bus anyway and have a look around.
First up, we went straight to Olot, a town of about 30,000 people in the ...
Day 11 - Carcassonne to Tamariu
... at the Andorran border, where we stopped and took some pictures in the touristy ski area. We then continued into Andorra (the only new country of the trip for me) and up to the top of the pass for a quick walk in the snow at 2408 meters (7900 feet).
Then we turned around and headed out of Andorra, where we encountered the most ...



