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Run rabbit run
... of the airport and realised Holf was right. FEAR STRUCK. 15 minutes to go.
We ran the 5 minutes back and reached security. Queue.
Dripping from our foreheads and down our necks and backs, we caught our breath in a frustratingly slow queue with incompetent people who decided to wait until the conveyor belt moment to take the liquids out of their bags to sort out and also to remove jewellery. Finally we came through. 5 minutes to go.
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Spain
... her head twice. She said that the man was following us through the shop toward the door. The whole time he didn’t stop glaring and watched us intently as we walked away. We raced up the street and darted into and out of shops, continually taking turns to look over our shoulders. After much scurrying here and there and time had passed, we’d felt certain he no longer knew where we were and we walked hurriedly back to the van.
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"Field Trip"
... is another building designed by Gaudi and is expected to take at least another eight years to finish construction.
The inside was beautiful and it was cool to have a tour guide showing us all the small detail in so many places I never would have noticed. Apparently, in order to attend mass in the church you have to pre-order tickets and only a few hundred people are allowed to sit with another few hundred standing. There was even enough space for a choir of over 700 ...
Again, running out of time - so much more to see
... art. I'm not sure whether the creators of contemporary art take their work seriously or not - certainly the academics give it significance based on their intellectual interpretation. Personally, if art needs to be explained in intellectual terms, then I'm not interested. As I strolled around the exhibition, listened to the (intellectual) audio, watched other people's reaction and tried to take it all seriously, it all seemed to me to parallel the ...
The Quest
... He was an Italian guy who had been in Barcelona for about two months, so he knew quite a few touristy type locations. We were able to see the beach, the zoo, Sagrada Familia, and the neatest alley ways (seriously).
The other great part of our morning tour guide was that we knew of some great restaurants. One of which is called Les Quinze Nits. Right off of La Ramblas there is a restaurant where many of the new ...
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