Best Western Barcelona

... the building of an Orphanage for some time. After this we plan to check out Italy, Travel Spain with the Greenwood parents, Christmas in England with relatives, New years in Edinborouh with Katies best friend. Then head home around a year after we began.

... years now...and have found RTW trips to be almost as cheap as return tickets. But the 4 continents ticket seemed like the best value, and my 3 months in South America has now exploded into a 9 month 3 continent extravaganza (My home continent Australia ...

... to the point that you're probably hoping "bloody stay out there"! Hopefully this will involve seeing some of the worlds best bars, clubs, cities, cars, trannies, landmarks and more! This trip is gonna be fatter than Vanessa Feltz in a pie scoffing ...

A quick stop in Barcelona for 24 hours. Since I was alone and carrying a huge suitcase with suits, laptops and conference gear, I stayed at a Best Western. It was a nice room and I was able to check in when I arrive at 11. I was quickly given a map by the ...

... seen, and my favorite part was the trip up into the towers. Continued by walking to see the other major Gaudi contributions to Barcelona and visited Casa Batllo, which to me was even more interesting than the church. Took a walk down Las Ramblas into the ...

... a long walk and by this time it was about 4pm. i had read that the cable car ride to a place called 'Monjuic' was best done at dusk. i was in the North Western part of town, so walked a bit, got lost a bit and took a tube to the South of the city. the ...

... residents of Barcelona claim they have the greatest lifestyle in the world. The claim is built solely around food. Barcelona does have some of the best food in Europe. Many go for cured ham known throughout Spain as jamon or the seafood-stuffed paella, ...

... buildings and places of interest to see. I had two full days to visit the sights of this city and opted for the 'Barcelona Bus Touristic' as the best option to find all the sites. There are two main routes and you can get a two day pass which works out ...

... than the one used in ages past. The apartment building designed by Gaudi, the architectural mastermind and hero of Barcelona, was incredible. It shatters traditional thought and design, and instead favors biological and organic stylistic tendencies. The ...

... Seattle. His enthusiasm for my city made me miss home tremendously. After an hour, Ellen a Swede going to University in Barcelona, another Calle introduction, arrived with a German friend named David in tow. Ellen, David, Gabrielle had a blast making ...

  The man behind the desk at the Best Western Hotel Alfa Auropuerto always seems to be busy and exasperated with all the people asking him questions.  As I wait in line I notice the four-star placard on the wall, but the longer I have to stand ...

... a long argument with the bus driver in a language somewhere between English and Spanish (yet not quite either one), he understood "Best Western" and ended up personally driving me up to the front door, not forgetting to swear and yell at me in Spanish ...

... to it. The guy at the hotel told me that I didn´t have a reservation. Bollocks! So I ended up having to stay at a Best Western for about 85 bucks because there were no cheap places with rooms that I could find. That was sort of upsetting. Plus my arm ...

This is my third attempt to write on this blog, Everytime I sat down t0  write a note or two my eyes would start to droop , Wayne is taking pictures for the blog as I'm trying to write but we both decide to stop and get out of the room , because ...

... on the Loire. We walked around the gorgeous little streets where Helen and Gem popped into some cute little shops. We found a gorgeous Best Western called Le Davinci (as this is where De Vinci spent the last 3 years of his life) which had just been ...

... who was inspired by a church after traveling to Loreto, Italy. When he returned he was determined to build a similar one in Barcelona from money he would raise from charity.  He originally hired an architect named Villar, but they had a falling out ...

Flew back today to Barcelona, one night back in town before I have to get up at 4:30 am to catch the flight tomorrow to NYC. ...

... style. The famous dragon and lizard are located here. If you don’t know what they are, you best get yourself to Barcelona. Photo opportunities abound here, but the place is packed out with tourists everywhere, all trying to photograph the same ...

... and with vintage Ronaldinho class, elegantly skipped past one defender and delivered a wonderful finish into the top corner. Barcelona 5 - Levski Sofia 0. Gaudi 1 - Ronaldinho 1. But really - how do you compare the impact of an individual has by his ...

... town should be relabelled the small old town.  Blink and you'd miss it.  It's full of old buildings.  Best old bit to see is the Western gate of the old wall.  It still has bullet holes in it (Napoleon?)  They've even recovered a ...

... have two more.  This was definitely more of a local experience. It should be on everyone’s list to visit in Barcelona. After walking through Barceloneta, I headed to the Museo Catalunya.  It’s a museum that highlights the history of ...