Hotel Balmes - Ght Hotels Calella

We are ready to leave for our 20-days-Adventure. Asia is waiting for us. Only 24 hours and we'll be catching the plane taking us from Zurich to Hong Kong. We are - curious, excited, overwhelmed... Right now we are putting the last stuff in our backpacks - I really hope that they won't be too heavy in the end. Tomorrow it will be all about 6 hours at work trying to close everything ...

... for the Tourism office to open at five. We walked around killing time, and enjoyed an ice cream overlooking the beach. At five there was no sign of anyone, and by ten past we were getting worried. That's when I noticed the small sign on the door saying it was bank holiday and it wasn't opening again at all. Our accommodation options just reduced by 95%. We ended up in a really expensive resort in a triple room that ...

... maravilloso! el día me rinde igual aún despertando tarde,jaja). Turistas por centenas, choque de culturas en cada barrio, shawarmas del tamaño de mi brazo (yumm), taco de ojo en abundancia. Para disfrutar la ciudad a plenitud me parece que hay que perderse con toda conciencia, y aparecer de pronto en callejones cuestionables, descubrir los detalles que obsequian los ...

... dormitories (10 bed) was this hotel - and it read up ok, but since then I have read a couple of traveller reviews and it appears that it is miles out - and even though there is a bus stop 200 m away, it doesn´t always work, and maybe the weekend timetable will not be good. I am hoping I am wrong. And maybe there will be other travellers there who might like to share a taxi, otherwise it is going to be an extremely ...

... it was a flop but now as a 30-acre garden it´s a delight and attracts millions every year. Lee and I started climbing to the top of the park to see a view of the entire city. As usual, I could not stay close to Lee but eventually made it to the top and joined him for some pictures. My back pain was annoying and just seemed to be getting worse the more we did. Lee and I used our map to try to identify buildings, landmarks, etc. to help us get a better orientation. I was pretty worn ...

... I had a wonderful opportunity to do just that! Tomorrow, we are going to go on a day trip to Monseratt (not sure if I´m spelling that right), which is some sort of monestary about 50km out of the city. Since I obviously know so little about this, you would be correct to assume that it was my Mom´s idea! We usually whine and groan about this sort of thing, but it always works out well in the end, so I´m secretly looking forward to it! Much love, Laura

... corn flakes, milk, bread, and nutella) and started what we thought was a walking tour in one of the brosures we picked up. Turns out it was actually a bus tour, which was ok because Lindsey and I LOVE to walk. But what we had expected to take about 2-3 hours actually took 6, and we only did half of the tour. 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM. Walking. Constantly. Never even stopped for lunch. We got in all the sites, from Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, to Park Guell. We literally crashed ...

... but initially I figured it was too far away from anything to make it worthwhile. Once I was settled into Ios though and the possibility of La Tomatina was there and I had plenty of empty hours to daydream over a European map, Barcelona became more realistic. I've already said the experience of La Tomatina alone was worth the hell of overnight trains to and from Italy. Well, getting five days in Barcelona was an excellent bonus. The city just has one of those special ...

... everywhere and everything is a fusion of old and new. Maybe it's just that summer has arrived, but it's the most effervescent place I've been to - bar none. La Ramblas is capped at one end by the Placa de Catalunya - a vast sea of marble and rotating traffic occasionally punctuated by fountains and flowers. Named after the ...

... November 11 We manage to relief a bit of the HH tension between me and Irma but thing werent really bad and the next morning we woke up slowly again and went for a walk to the Sagrada Familia and afterwards to Park Guel, then we had some really silly fun and it was probably our best day of the trip... we encountered a storm which we watched arriving, it and its lightning, from the top peak of Park Guel. Back at Marie ...