Hotel Stella Pineda de Mar

... having lunch, pick the backpacks - and GO!<br><br>So, our plan is the following - let's see if it stays as it is and we'll accomplish:<br><br>18/11/2009: Flight Barcelona - Hong Kong, via Zurich <br>19/11/2009 - 22/11/2009: HONG KONG<br>22/11/2009: KUNMING (overnight stay)<br>23/11/2009 - 25/11/2009: YUANYANG RICE TERRACES - Xinjie(zhen)<br>25/11/2009 - 27/11/2009 ...

... Columbus Statue. It is impressive as the pictures tell.<br><br>We sit at port and watch the boats come and go. It is another beautiful sunny day.<br><br>Walk back up Ramblas Street, stop in the market and buy some cherries, strawberries and Len finally gets his watermelon. They are all good. At the end of the street we stop to watch 2 young men doing acrobatic flips and jumps. They are very good and can do several ...

... it or get in it without having to go through security. I explained my situation to an agent on duty and he said I needed to go through the security line just like everyone else. There was only 1 x-ray machine for the entire terminal with a long line. I could tell it wasn´t moving much. Prepared for a long wait, I pulled a book out of my backpack which I managed to finish before getting through the line. Many passengers were quite upset since it seemed they were missing flights ...

... caverns is a real highlight, especially keeping in perspective whose footsteps you are walking in. You can´t mention Barcelona without talking about their nightlife. There are clubs and bars everywhere, and the family-friendly pedestrian walkways by day quickly become taken over by drunks and club-goers around 2am. Though bars typically open early and seem to never close, discoteques, or nightclubs, don´t even open doors until 1am, and the crowds don´t ...

... night, my mind is still foggy but I have had time to rest enough to make sense of my surroundings, although thoughts of reading have long been given up over to the exhaustion of hopping planes and time zones. It was by pure accident I ended up in this section of the plane, a smile from an attendee on the east coast as he handed me the upgrade must have been a gift from god. I ...

... performance." But as I glanced up once (involuntarily), I met eyes with the man in the wheel chair - a piece of work in his own right. He was glaring at me with this look of, "I know what you really want from my..." what - was that his wife? daughter? Could´ve gone either way I suppose. But I really wanted nothing of the sort. What I wanted was for them to move on. Then I saw the really sad part of the whole business. They had in tow with them a little kid not more than 3 or 4 years old ...

... had been converted into a hotel. We sat ourselves down in a bar and had a milkshake and a pot of tea. That bar had five TV screens inside and out. There was no way you could miss the football. We strolled around, as we do, and then walked back up that bloody hill bumping in to an Irish lady on the way who chatted to Anne about home exchanges which she had done but was now living in Collioure and would live nowhere else, She reckoned it was wonderful. Well, I don't know ...

... cheap materials, avoided the use of straight lines (e.g. preferring arches to beams in the ceilings) and drew inspiration from religious, oriental, medieval and natural sources. First stop was the Casa Batllo, a magnificent residential building built in the prime bourgoise strip neighbourhood of the time (1906) and which ...

... ei saada yhteyttä/pankillanne teknisiä vaikeuksia. Olimme todella hämmästyneitä moisesta, sillä itse asiassa Mikan Masterin kanssa oli ollut ongelmia myös Meribelissä. Emme saaneet kaupassa maksettua masterilla, eikä silläkään automaatista saanut rahaa kun vasta toisella yrittämällä. Ironista on mielestäni se, että maailmanympärireissulla kortti oli toiminut aivan täydellisesti, Bolivian takametsiä ja Malesian viidakkoa myöden. Euroopassa sitten onkin vaikeaa saada rahaa. Viimein ...

... so colourful and friendly and there was always something going on. It was very pretty but enourmous too. We saw the Sagrada Familia, Park Guell, an loads of buildings designed by Gaudi. Saw some green parrots and we all baked in the heat, even though it was march. I would love to come back and explore more of Spain one day.