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Barcelona Part 1 - The Beginning of the End
... we got to put our knowledge from the reading material into action. When we came up from a metro station near Barca Stadium, four very tall guys all with some sort of Barca F.C. gear on them, came up to me. One of the guys asked me very directly “do you speak English?” I looked up and answered “ya a little.” As soon as I answered, the other three guys who had been standing behind the speaker, started to come closer to me on all sides. I backed up a bit and ...
Two festivals in one day
... senior churchmen and put on a brief performance, with Aliga, Lleo, gegants and Cu-cut all dancing, bastoners bastoning and the diable terrifying a few unsuspecting people with the sparks from his pitchfork. Good job there weren’t any trabucaires! Incidentally, the festival of Sant Roc seems to be Barcelona’s oldest festival, this being only the 423rd annual event, although I think a few years were missed here and there because of prevailing political and ...
Unity or Separation?
... part of Quebec and Canada as a whole, it is very different from both of these in character. The style of the French language is not the same, the food they eat is not the same, and their mannerisms and attitudes are also not the same. It is like another completely dissimilar culture within a mainly unified country. The last five days here in Barcelona have also given me the same sense of distinction from the rest of the country. The people here consider themselves a separate ...
Departing Barcelona
... this would have to be an awfully darn late flight for guests to be arriving after 10 p.m. – so who knows what’s going on.
Since there would be no sail away to experience, I headed up to my cabin at 10:28, then took a brief stroll outside before going to The Vault nightclub for the “Friends of Dorothy” gathering. I ran into Darren of Sydney, Australia, whom I had met earlier while reading outside. He is traveling with a travel agent friend named Julie. ...
The value of staying in touch
... play host to Elena when she briefly visited me in Los Angeles, where I was living at the time. It was nice to see her and for her, it was nice to return to a place where she once lived when she studied at the University of Southern California (USC). Throughout the years, we managed to stay in touch, and in 2006, I returned to Barcelona and had the opportunity to visit with her ...