Merce 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 ...

... accordion. He plays lots of great toe taping tunes, international ones that everyone will recognize. He collects his money just before the train stops and then moves into another car. It is an enjoyable ride into town, we watch all the bathers on the beach.<br><br>We go to the big Cathedral, guess what, more scaffolding. We walk around the outside of it and look at the ornate animals on the pillars. As we are ...

... that Vueling didn´t have time to load my backpack and that they would just put it on the next flight. (At least I´m hoping that is what happened.) We had bought 10 metro rides for 6.50&euro; which is about half the cost of individual trips. The metro is very clean, convenient and covers the city pretty well. I could take the metro from Las Ramblas to the airport without having to change trains. We were at the stop just prior to the airport when the conductor made an ...

... a city-park. When you see his works or walk in the buildings he designed, its as if you´ve walked into Willy Wonka´s factory, or a dr. Seuss book. All of his work is inspired by nature, and he replicates it in a cartoon-ish way, with giant flowers, lizard statues, caves, and vines connecting everything. The park looks like one giant childrens playground. Really fun to see. One of the buildings he created has no angles or flat walls or ceilings ...

... selling bocadillo de chorizo, but I decided to wait until after we were done dancing. It had been closed by that time, so I asked if we didn't mind going back. We went and I got my chorizo, yum!<br><br>And so that brings me to this morning. We didn't really have that much time today so all we did was walk around after a cup of coffee taking pictures of the plazas and enjoying the sun that we missed the day before.<br><br>It is a strange feeling to walk out of a metro stop two days ...

... the residential sections situated above. I´ve posted a few examples here, so take a look. Very artistic and inventive stylings. For dinner that night I didn´t feel like straying far due to all the walking I´d already done throughout the day, so I took a stroll around the Place Real and settled on a nice looking spot. After I had ordered and my starter had arrived and I was just tucking into the nice plates of Manchego cheese, little sausages and olives, I heard a booming, obnoxious music ...

TUESDAY, 27th June We did it again. Got lost in our own back yard. Heading for Le Redorte we ended up in Pepioux and Olonzac. Six of one and half a dozen of the other is the appropriate term. Picked up fuel in Lezignan just before we entered the A61 auto route which would connect with the A9 all the way to Perpignan. Boring drive. Very flat. Lots of vines but at least I could look around me and relax. We skirted Perpignan taking note of the airport on our right where we might ...

... in the art I was very happy to spend most of my time in town investigating a handful of these. Whilst there were many proponents, most people will only have heard the name Gaudi, a devout Catholic born in 1852 who became the leading exponent of architectural Modernism. Nowadays his name has turned into a descriptive ...

... oikein päässeet määränpäähämme. Pienen mutkan jälkeen päsimme kuitenkin aika lähelle, mutta varsinaista hostellia emme löytänee. Mika kipaisi kysymässä yhdessä hotellissa yösijaa, mutta se oli täynnä. Siinä vaiheessa minä aloin olemaan valmis luopumaan leikistä ja ehdotin, että ajetaan kaupungista pois ja etsitään motarin varrelta joku hotelli. Siinä vaiheessa Mika kuitenkin huomasi parkkihallin sisäänajoliuskan ja ajoi automme parkkihalliin. Päätimme pysäköidä auton siihen yöksi ja k ...

... tent at 3am in the morning. we woke up bright and early and got a bus from the campsite into Barcelona city center. which is fantastic so far. we have been to a massive food market that sells pigs trotters and cows tongues and endless rows of fruit and veg and hanging hams it was an amazing site. The weather has picked up again and it is now hot and sunny and our Tans are coming on nicely. I hope the weather keeps up for the GP. My mum and dad and aunt and uncle are arriving ...