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By JohnLyn
January 6th 2010

5th January - Barcelona Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Hello again, Today it drizzled quite a bit but didn't dampen our enthusiasm at all - add an umbrella and we're ready to go!! Again on the local tourist bus and to some of the most famous sites in Barcelona and some indeed - world renowned. First we went to Sagrada Familia or as it's known here - Gaudi's church. This enduring symbol of the cityand its Modernista legacy is this church - Gaudi's other wordly piece de resistance. The 8 spires out of 12 planned, can be seen from most of Barcelona and the church started being built in 1880 [View Full Entry]

By JohnLyn
January 6th 2010

5th January - Barcelona - take 2 Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Pictures for you!! Happy Birthday to Blake!! Happy Anniversary to Jodi and Darren. Happy Birthday to Margaret & Colleen. Sorry folks having problems uploading photos although nothing has changed - will reboot and try again... [View Full Entry]

By JohnLyn
January 6th 2010

take 3 Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Trying again [View Full Entry]

By JohnLyn
January 5th 2010

3rd January - Barcelona Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

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Hi everyone, Well today is our 1st day of our second session in Barcelona - pronounced Bathelona - to the uneducated, and we've had a ball. On our last evening on the ship in the fantastic French restaurant we had the most delicious chocolate fondue for dessert - fresh fruit - um yum!! Topped off a great time on the cruise. Next moning when disembarking the ship - which was from 5.30am - 9.30am on a Sunday morning - a bit rude really...!! We then had to line up in a taxi rank and waited for about half an hour for [View Full Entry]

By JohnLyn
January 5th 2010

4th January - Day 2 Barcelona Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Catalunya Square (2)

Hello there, We awoke to a day that was bitterly cold and we discovered the city via the tourist bus route and had a great day to see the highlights and touristy things that everyone comes here to see. Must mention we have breakfast here included in the price and it was great - we asked for boiled eggs and we got perfectly boiled eggs - they don't eat those here - usually pastries, cheese and cold meats for breakfast so the eggs are not normally the done thing! Some of the sites we saw was the Gothic quarter which included [View Full Entry]

By JohnLyn
January 5th 2010

Take 4 - 5th Jan Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

3 Kings parade (3)

Hola! At last the photos!! [View Full Entry]

By Dos
December 27th 2009

Bienvenido Barcelona Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

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I know I haven´t been writing a lot. I got lazy and been busy with exploring the city and stuff. Today, just been visiting walking around the city again and met up with our global village team members. we did tapas tour and drank wine the whole time. it´s been really fun. yesterday on christmas day, i heard that chicago had bad weathers and im sorry to hear that but i just walked around the city on a cool 50 degree weather. it was christmas in paradise. bright and sunny. saw the Sagrada familia church, park guell, touch the meditereane sea. [View Full Entry]

By JohnLyn
December 19th 2009

Next day 19/12/09 Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Ladies in Fur

Hi everyone, LAST DAY IN MADRID Yesterday - our last day in Madrid we were in a shop similar to David Jones food area - and Tapas bar - and two older ladies in their long fur coats, lots of gorgeous gold jewelry, well groomed etc came and sat down almost next to us - and ordered a BEER each!!! One ended up with a moustache of froth - seemed so out of place with everything else.... others were ordering glasses of MUMM champagne etc... We did a couple of bus tours around Madrid and had a great time and saw [View Full Entry]

By diegocastro
December 13th 2009

A Cidade Europeia Perfeita Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Barcelona

Dias 96 a 102 - Londres tem dezenas de artistas de rua, mas não tem um céu azul sobre eles. Palermo tem mercados de rua, mas neles não há muita coisa para se comer na hora, e nenhum vendedor é simpático. A Bélgica tem gente simpática, mas não tem artistas de rua ou mercados. Paris tem boa comida, mas apenas para quem tem cinquenta euros para desembolsar em uma refeição. A Suíça tem organização, mas não tem vida. A Irlanda, bem, a Irlanda não tem nada mesmo. Barcelona tem tudo isso. Artistas de rua por todos os lados, um mercado de [View Full Entry]

By blackandgold
November 16th 2009

You had me at Sangria... Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

With our favorite bartender :)

Barcelona was crazy! You definitely need to have a lot of energy for that city! Our entire visit it was in the 70’s and sunny, so we completely lucked out weather wise. We hiked up a lot of hills (sadly we weren’t able to hike through the foothills of Mount Tibidabo and see a woman…. and she was crying…) and we were completely exhausted at the end of each day, but we still experienced the nightlife Barcelona-style! Our first day we climbed Montjuic (part of the way!) where we then took a funicular to the top of the mountain to explore [View Full Entry]

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