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Barcelona St.George's day
It was my second visit to Barcelona - this time for work, visiting the plant in El Prat de Llobregat (with Blanca, Lukasz and Wael) and two evenings spent in the city center. April 23 is a particular day in Spain. It's a day of St.George's death (the Saint who killed the dragon), also on April 23 1616 two great writers - Shakespeare and Cervantes …
Packing for Croatia
... Balkans, were written by academics. Academic writing seems to rest on presenting a hypothesis ("Balkan history forgets the Ottaman period") or focus too strongly on one area, say art or architecture, and then spends the entire book arguing the point. Loads of references, too much research and academic language. While a journalist explains, an academic discusses and argues. And I don´t care how ...
Parcs, buildings, buskers and La Merce
... places for buskers in Barcelona. I'm mostly bored and irritated by the human statues of Las Ramblas who cause pedestrian congestion, make ideal opportunities for pick pockets and don't really do much for their money, but I'm more than happy to part with a Euro or two for a good busker. Our first encounter was with two young ladies playing zithers competently; we listened for a while, put some coins in their pot and moved on. I'm sure if we'd waited long enough we'd have ...
What we did our last day and a half in Europe
... dinner plans with other people. A lovely and very interesting older woman who is a subscriber and donor at Rick's theatre was in town with her son, and we went to a restaurant that was on the beach. The food was fine, but the company was better. The son spilt water on Claudia, who then had him apologizing to her and the waiter bringing way too many napkins for a half glass of water. Claudia intensely dislikes ...
Sightseeing in Barcelona
Since I never had the opportunity to really see Barcelona before, I took my last free day before leaving to see what all the fuss was about! Julia and I slept in for a bit and woke up feeling a bit more refreshed then I had been in the past week. We started off by walking towards the Sagrada Familia, but along the way we saw some apartment buildings designed by Gaudi that I couldn't help but take a few photos of. As we were approaching the ...