Hotel La Fransa

C/ La França Xica 40, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08004, Spain and Canary Islands | Hotel

Travel Blogs from Barcelona

Nov 03, 2012

A travel blog entry by daveygreener

Ugh shopping. Jk, it's not so bad. We started with a coffee and walked for 5 hours. Through the gothic and on the rumba and to the beach. Yeah with shopping thrown in. Barcelona is a lot like Melbourne just stretched and flattened. Like someone took a rolling pin to the CBD, making st kilda rd into the rumbla, the bay into the sea, degraves st into the gothic and Collins and Burke into grand ...

Andorra and Barcelona

A travel blog entry by rhys_raelene

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... much gear as possible in Rhys' panniers and both top boxes then packed the rest in our backpacks and we were off to Barcelona. Had a very SLOW bus ride out of Andorra, the traffic was crazy! We decided people from Barcelona must come to Andorra to do duty free shopping for the day, as there is no other way to explain how many cars and people we saw. During the bus trip we realised I had left the spare bike keys in my top box and Rhys had the rego papers in his; so if people were ...

Barcelona: Getting Giddy on Gaudi

A travel blog entry by richard_n_helen

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... with architectural design. We’re not usually overwhelmed by man-made constructions, but Gaudi’s masterpiece literally stunned us. Forget La Rambla, Spanish tapas and operatic buskers: La Sagrada Familia alone justifies our visit to Barcelona. As we depart we ponder if we will live long enough to discern its completion.

Indisputably it’s the most significant, but La Sagrada Familia is just one of numerous examples of ...

Viva Barthelona

A travel blog entry by wanderlust_ed

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... for me to stay. Such a kind gesture. The first night, he took us to his favourite tapas bar around his neighbourhood, and the last night he took us to a great dim sum place in my favourite neighbourhood of Born.

I also met another dear friend of Silvia's from Chile named, Amine. The 3 of us enjoyed a late afternoon coffee and though they hadn't seen each other for a few years, I ...

Gaudi...Gaudi....Gaudi

A travel blog entry by ontheroa

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You gotta love this guy.

Gaudi is one architect who definitely left his mark.

He was born in Reus in 1852, one of 5 children and both his parents came from families of metalsmiths. Gaudi was the youngest and suffered rheumatism from early childhood so was unable to play with other children. He had to ride a donkey to get around but having to remain close to home he developed a keen interest in studying nature. He studied architecture in ...

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