Mirador De La Franca Colombres

... are too!! So while show was thus occupied Kim and I punished ourselves by doing an exercise circuit along the esplanade before a well earned scrambled eggs breaky.

After much searching we found the local Aire de Servicio to top up water before heading further south…

... instead we went the entire length of the church and then started climbing up some steps.  Now we had already stepped into the church to check it out before the service started, but there was something that we had failed to notice: the location of the statue.  Turns out it is dead center of the altar at the front of the church and the balcony is open to the sanctuary.  Well, of course the line takes longer than we were hoping and by the time we ...

... after 2(it was 4:30 when this happened). Well, I guess you get what you pay for (12 Euro a night.) After an hour, I got eventually got up and shut the door and the was able to get some sleep for a few hours. At 8PM I got up and made myself some soy pasta with a sauce made from dried mushroom soup. It was practically inedible, but somehow I choked it down. Since my arrival in Barcelona, food has become a matter of sustenance rather than enjoyment for me. I'm ...

... of paella as we had to rush off to.... another pub crawl. You have to admit that it's a really good way to see the city nightlife, and that I'm not just an alcoholic. 4 bars and a club - dunno what time I got home but it was fun. I remember almost all the pubs and most of the people I spoke to.... lol Obviously got a late start the next morning and spent the rest of the day cruising, not stumbling, down to the beach ...

... then they have to scUll the beer) and had dinner together then tonight we had a party with chips a champayne in the room. This is backpacking at its finest. The Liverpool v Chelsea game was jUst on TV in the common room. Everyone was going for Chelsea in the room except for Colin they were all cheering Until it came to the penalty shootoUt and got extremely Upset when colin was cheering for Liverpool especially ...

One of the benefits of working in Europe is the 4 day Easter holiday. On a continent that is becoming less and less Christian (at least practicing) the fact that Good Friday, Easter Monday (and later Ascension Thursday) are public holidays is fantastic. We decided in January to spend Easter in Barcelona. Meghan has been a few times when she studied in Sevilla, but was nice enough to head back with me. This would be my first ...

... It's HUGE and extravagant. Gaudi was the main architect behind this beast. I heard that the church under construction is actually one-tenth the size that he originally wanted it. Crazy. After that, we went to one of the cool city parks, and we hiked up this awesome hill. There were some great views of the city from there. Yet, that wasn't good enough ...

... in the midst of reading Barack Obama's latest book, The Audacity of Hope. About half way through I was stopped dead in my tracks as I came across some facts that made me flush with anger. If you can picture me shaking my head profusely in the middle of a restaurant, flipping the pages as I read it over and over again in disbelief. Below: "At the end of Bill Clinton's presidency... for the first time in almost thirty years, we enjoyed big budget surpluses and a rapidly ...

... different styles. The nativity seems very Gothic and almost looks like the sand castles we used to make at the beach when we were kids where you drip the mud down in streams to make spires. The passion scene is newer, and has cubist-looking figures that sort of looked like Frankenstein and a design that seemed art deco to me. There was also an embracing couple (Jesus and Mary Magdalene for all the Da Vinci fans?) next to a cryptogram. If you add the numbers in ...

We woke up after a good nights sleep, ready to take on Barcelona, only to find out that the port was still blocked by 150 fishing boats. The strike had been going on for some days now. Another cruise line had been waiting outside the port for two days to get in and load off their passengers! At least we made the best of it and spent time in Palma de Mallorca instead. After digesting our breakfast we were still positive that they would ...