Estela Sitges

<br><br> Went into the city again today to call some job vacancies. Ive got a guaranteed job promoting a bar crawl where tourists pay 15 euros to go to 4 bars and then a club, getting a free shot or beer in each bar and free entry to the club, normally about 15 euros. I make 5 euros for each person i get signed up. start tonight or tomo, prob tomo, im knackered after staying up late last night with some ...

... really closer look! He fell off and your heros left into the sunset. It was a reminder we would need to have our wits about us, we found a quite spot about 20km from Barcelona by the sea in Garraf, as its was so close to the city we thought it may be worth a quick drive to test the waters. It was a pretty full on experience again, not quite as mad as Valencia but pretty hair raising stuff. We drove right into town through La Ramblers past the Olympic village and the ...

... three paintings; however, at this time my English spelling is failing me after being immersed in Spanish again. So sorry for any errors you may spot.) The paintings comprised a series called the Solitary Human or something along those lines. It was three canvases with white backgrounds and three black lines, one line on each. It took him years to conceptualize and complete. They were not even straight lines! I could see if ...

... to visit La Catedral, which is Barcelona's central place of worship. Matt and Brian were able to go in and see the church, but Jill and I were stopped at the door by a Catalan (a combination of French/Spanish) speaking gentleman. After a couple minutes of gesturing and trying to decipher what he was saying we realized we could not go in because of our tank tops. We were very surprised and ended up waiting on the ...

... Good to know you can get a beer whenever you want, but it did get a little annoying after about the 25th guy offering you beer. Today was another sleep in day, and then we headed out to see some of the unique architecture in the city done by d'Antonio Gaudi. His buildings are very unique and interesting, but by far the greatest one (even though it's still under construction) is the Temple de la Sagrada Familia (Temple of the Sacred Family ...

... gypsies, not pickpocketed by thieving *******s, but STUPIDLY left at a ticket machine for a military castle we were going to go see up in Montjuiic. Fortunatley I had photocopied all my important info and numbers so I was able to cancel it within a couple of hours of actually realizing I no longer had possession of my card. I realize it could have been much, MUCH worse. What if I had left it at an actual ATM ...

... hotels in a residential area since Sitges has done a great job of separating the residential areas from the old town/tourist area. My room has been nice though since it has 5 large windows creating a nice breeze on the warm evenings (and my own bathroom!). The books I read this week were: Devil in the White City, Larsen Kill all the Lawyers, Levine The Overlook, Connelly The Quickie, Patterson The 6th Target, Patterson The Woods, Coben Promise Me, Coben ...

... admire some of Antonio Gaudi's works - we've seen Sagrada Familia and had a walk in Parc Guell - that was a great conclusion of the week. After that we visited Camp Nou and had a dinner at Ramblas. Barcelona remains one of my favorite cities!

Well my adventures in the med is coming to a quicker close than I thought. It will be 2 months that I have been here on the 22nd which will also be the day I leave the brilliance. A month ago I received word that my contract was actually only a fill in. You see because I came at last minute I was actually covering a girl named jenns contract who had been promoted to manager on the grandeur. So when I signed on on the 23rd of may it was ...

We took the train from San Sebastian to Barcelona. We had a wonderful picnic lunch on the train; we had cheese and chorizo and a half bottle of Ribera del Duero 2003. We were disappointed at the food offerings to be found on the La Rambla. We were looking for the Spanish style tapas we'd come to love from Andalusia and the Harvest Vine. What we found was generally over priced and not particularly good. So what ...