Sorrabona Aparthotel Pineda de Mar

we were up early and into city, catching that replacement bus service certainly made things slower. We started the day off with a Fat Tire Bike Tour – which I highly recommend. The tour guide was fantastic and we got to see most of the city in 4 hours.

We stopped at the Barcelona Cathedral, and then headed to the famous Sagrada Famillia, Antoni Gaudi's creation. We also went through the park and headed past the bull fighting arena, stopped at the Arc De Triompf (Barcelona ...

June 12 and June 13

Friday and Saturday

These are two very lazy days. We went to the beach and relaxed both day. No pictures as we didn't even take the camera. Actually I did the blog and pictures on Friday while Len went to the beach.

We asked our Provincial Manitoba Health when we could leave the province for our next holiday and they told us April 1, 2010! So we will be spending this ...

... some ice cream and then made our way back to the train station. We did a walk about the park before getting our train tickets.

With out tickets in hand we begin to look for information on which train to take from what platform to go back to Pineda de Mar. I ask an info lady and she tells us take the train on platform 1.

We go down and a train with Mortay on it stops. I ask if it ends there and the chap getting on says yes, We ...

... is known for the fabulous stained glass in the dining room. The architect, Lluis Domenech i Muntaner, built the home in 1906 but it has suffered the most over the years from ïmprovements¨ made by later owners. From here we decided that we needed to participate in siesta due to our early start. After a little nap Lee and I decided to walk along Las Ramblas. This is one of the most famous people-watching streets in the world and for good reason. Despite some tacky tourist shops ...

... world atrocities, and eventually becoming a reporter for Life magazine, and going directly into warzones and places others were scared to go. Truely an amazing woman for her times, very independant, strong willed, stubborn, and unique. I admire her and her work. She´s a very inspiring woman. Other things to do that barcelona offers is a tour of the harborside via a cable car dangling a couple hundred feet or so in the air from a single thin wire ...

... problems occurred which made it clear that our phones where not working properly in Spain as they would have in France. It took two attempts and about two and a half hours to meet the three others in front of La Sagrada Familla. After admiring the remarkably uncompleted church designed by Gaudi, we decided to go and check out Park Guell also designed by Barcelona's favorite architect. While it had lightly rained most of the morning and decided to be cloudy all afternoon we ...

... Familia - Antoni Gaudi´s, as yet unfinished, master-piece. It is the only Cathedral to have been (or is being) built in the past 100 years or more. It would have been quite a walk from where I was staying, so instead I bought a ticket for the Bus Touristic - one of those double decker sight seeing contraptions. I figured it was transportation between things I wanted to see and the ticket was good all day; on and off as many times as you want. But back to the church. This is a truly ...

... through the bus ride now...I think. I can´t see any road signs. Nothing has changed, but growing increasingly bored. After getting away from the city, the countryside has opened up to reveal sprawling farms, then hills of the Rhone Valley and the setting sun. The windows are tinted keeping me from getting a good pic, but believe me its amazing. I wonder what brings the rest of the people on this journey. Tourists also ...

Pedroam and I went to Barcelona, mainly to see La Sagrada Familia but we also took some time to see other things in the city. We used the last remaining day on our train passes and just spent a day there. It was nice to go back for me, I noticed things that I didn´t the first time I went and I checked out a few things that I didn ...

Barcelona, una de las ciudades mas interesantes de Europa. La gran cantidad de turistas, mochileros y artesanos de todo el mundo, es el resultado de una ciudad muy concurrida y bastante sucia en comparación con Madrid. Aqui se puede ver la gran variedad de arquitectura, principalmente de la mano de Gaudí .El barrio Gótico, lugar donde decidimos alojar,es el lugar más antiguo y el más concurrido por los turistas, las angostísimas ...