http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Spain , Catalonia en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:14:53 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:14:53 BST kurzer Besuch bei Yvonne Nicolai und Udo in Calonge... und dann noch ein paar Tage in Barcelona... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/blog-304808.html So this is getting really sad. I took my final exam today and I am finally done with the 6 hour a day summer school But at the same time I had to say goodbye to the friends Irsquove made here. Irsquom really going to miss them. I am overwhelmed with the thought of packing up my entire room and taking only a small bag with me to London and Rome. This should be interesting. I plan on packing m http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-304522.html Hey guys we have free internet again Something that we didnt expect so we made sure to take some time and write another blog. So we last left off in Zaragoza and have since headed to and finished our stay in Barcelona. It is a pretty amazing city everyone who hasnt been you should mark it down on your list as something to see.We got to our hostel no problem after a 5 hour train ride f http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-304024.html I spent the weekend in Barcelona. I still love the fact that I can just go overseas so easily at relatively last minute only booked tickets a few weeks ago relatively low cost and only for a few days. It is just something that you can't do from AustraliaAnyway I left work early on Friday and went straight to Gatwick. The EasyJet flight was running on time and I arrived into Barcelona airport http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-303274.html Emma Haydens last weekend in Europe http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-302685.html Sunday 13 July 2008The film of the night was Ghost Rider which could've been an alright film but the quality wasn't great so it was a bit of a strain to watch. I didn't really get the ending though why couldn't he have just taken back his ghost riding power Hmmmm....Monday 14 July 2008We watched All The King's Men with Sean Penn playing a hick he was soooooo hard to understand Again http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-302187.html Sunday 6 July 2008To make up for the lack of exercise last week I did 3 videos today. Feelin good... Watched the rest of Mononoke Hime which was good then proceeded to watch more Dexter. Alex is REALLY getting into it. The opening credits always make me hungry when he cooks the pork then I spend the whole episode thinking about eating pork... So I went to bed feeling a little hungry. For http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-302185.html Today we finally got some of that legendary Spanish summer heat. We decided to take a trip to Parc Guell a wooded and hilly 30 acre park in the north of Barcelona that was intended to be a gated community a century ago. The Parc features a number of structures designed by Antonio Gaudi.Antonio Gaudi was a engineer architect artist who lived in Barcelona in the late 19th and early 20th cent http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-302124.html Port of Call BarcelonaFriday 4 July 2008800 a.m. 500 p.m.We arrived in Barcelona early in the morning and our initial view was disappointing an industrial port immediately outside our balcony a modern highway just beyond the port Castell de Montjuic topping the horizon.The day ultimately included plenty of pleasant surprises however beginning with the free shuttle buses from the dock http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301909.html Well I finally got to do some sightseeing. Heres some pictures of La Sagrada Familia to start with. More to follow.... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301773.html Well I have made it through my first week on the CELTYL course I have enjoyed my first week although it has been a lot of hard work. I am lucky enough to be living fairly close to International House it only takes about 10 minutes to get here every morning which is great. There are 9 of us on the course altogether and we are quite the multicultural bunch. We are ranging in age from 2150 and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301763.html Yesterday we went to Camp Nou home of FC Barcelona one of the world's biggest and most popular football clubs. It was packed with visitors from all over the world. And Bruce Springsteen fans hovered outside the grounds awaiting a concert by Springsteen that evening.Barcelona is the club for which Ronaldinho played until a few days ago. The stadium seats almost 100000 people and they offe http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301718.html Ola everyoneJust reporting on my awesome time in barcelona over the past few days. I arrived late on the 14th night and stayed in a hostel known more for its partying than anything else as i swaggered up sweaty and tired from the long train trip a group of ppl were doing shots and about to go to a 2 euro shot bar it would have been great but i was buggered and i've come to the conclusion that http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301511.html I suppose there are worse places to be stuck More down to lazyness than bad luck We didn't book our tickets to Granada in advance so have had stay in a hostel for the night. Anyway on the bright side it's a comfy night sleeping on a bed12 hours by train to Barcelona with stops along the way was never going to be plesant. Add an 90 year old geriatric with a foul temper and things got a whole http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301469.html This year in Spain we stayed in Barcelona and there was a chocolate muesem. They had really sweet chocolate sculptures like horses pulling carriages and the FC Barcelona logo. We got to see people make the sculptures. There was also a Barcelona stadium made out of chocolate.By michelpence http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301363.html We did a lot of walking around our first couple of days here in Barcelona almost all of it intentional. Our very nice apartment is located not too far from the Placa de Catalunya a large central square that divides old and new Barcelona. We took a walk on Las Ramblas which runs south toward the harbor. It used to be a medieval drainage ditch along the outside of the walls of the old town Ba http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301312.html After having gotten back from Ramon's very late this morning I woke up at around 1430. I was going to try and get to the school today but I ended up going the wrong way down the street which took me to Las Ramblas so I continued down it heading towards the biggest and main port near Barceloneta Port Vell where I ended up last night with Ramon. I sat for a while reading a guide book and planning http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301215.html Today I got up and spent a couple of hours getting ready for my 1st proper day out I decided I needed to do a big food shop so I was done for a couple of days. Urania told me there was a LIDL nearby so I went there and bout so much food my arms were going to collapse from the weight So eventually I stood on a street corner looking pretty and caught a cab home in which the bloody cab driver could http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301178.html Todos los que me conocis en profundidad lo estabis esperando as que ah va mi comentario escatolgico.El otro da fui a la farmacia de Roco a por mi botiqun particular para el viaje y despus de dejarme 70 Eurazos con descuento me he dado cuenta que soy un poco ms virgo prudens de lo que pensaba y no tan libra. Total que me he surtido de paracetamol antibitico antimosquitos adems d http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-301066.html Barcelona is a very modern city with a lot of Gaudi architecture which i hated. On every second house you have an egg or a fruit or something weird.Sagrada Familia is very impressing from far away as long as you don't see the details it looks impressing because of it's size but once i came near my first thought was this must be a joke. It looks like from a comic that has something to do with http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-300918.html On Sunday the boys and I left Dave in Edinburgh to finish up his teaching gig we flew to Girona Spain in Catalonia North East which is not too far from the Pyrenees in France.We stayed at a new Express Holiday Inn in Salt a town on the outskirts of Girona. When we visited the nearby mall in search of dinner 730pm we were surprised to find all the shops closed. We inquired at the hotel de http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Girona/blog-300862.html I am going to continue on my car blog. I have got a few more pictures I would like you to see. Most of these pictures I took on top of double decker buses so they are slightly from above. The silver car is a souped up MG convertible they donrsquot have MG in the u s a . The black convertible is a Porsche boxter the black BMW is a m6 coupe. The smallish black one is a smart for fun.my favorite http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Girona/blog-300861.html After the busy days in Madrid the next stop was Tossa de Mar 100km from Barcelona Girona airport. I spent my days in Tossa resting swimming and diving extremely unprofesional. It's a rather calm place with big daylife but no nightlife. During the day everyone is at the beach but the vicinity is very wild and lonesome. I mostly dived at the wild coasts with maybe 1 person crossing my way in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/blog-300731.html We spent the morning doing some sightseeing of the city of Barcelona. We were taken to the cathedral and had a walk around there. We were shown a couple of buildings designed by a famous architect Gaudi. They were definitely unique. One is known as the bones or something like that because the facade of the building looks like bones. We also went to the cathedral that is still being built there.. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-300678.html Today we travelled to Barcelona. Most of the day was spent on the bus.We got into Barcelona mid afternoon and headed straight to the hotel. Mum and I went for a walk around the hotel but it was way too hot to do much of a walk. In the evening we went to a buffet dinner and a flamenco show. It was in the main centre of Barcelona and being a Saturday night the area was really busy but Luigi said tha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-300666.html Com es pot veure en aquestes fotos ens estem dedicant a preparaho tot o almenys ho sembla ... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-300441.html Barcelona Spain http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-300381.html On arrival I realised I had done my back in from dragging the suitcase around os Nevertheless I still had to get to the accomodation. I found the overground but it wasn't stopping at the stop I was told to get off at so I go off at Passeig de Gracia station. This bastard station is so big and had a walkway a mile long just to get to the line I needed. Plus there were not lifts or down escalators http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-300270.html