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Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona » Barcelona August 19th 2012

As promised we took a million pictures today!! We went on the hop on/off tour that takes you through the city of Barcelona past all of the main historical sites and attractions. The advantage of this tour is that the busses run all day so you can quickly and easily get off and on at any one of the site you would like to visit. Unfortunately, only stopped off at two. Half way through the tour (just past three of the most beautiful beaches) we realized we didn't lock the safe at the hotel! On our walk back we were stopped by a random man sitting outside who wanted to take our picture. We couldn't understand a word he was saying so he put his arm around Emily and pointed to the camera. Emily looked horrified ... read more
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Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona » La Rambla August 18th 2012

Here are some pictures of our view from the hotel. I wanted to test the picture uploads to make sure everything works alright. This blog isn't the most intuitive so I apologize that I don't know how to make it a little more appealing. I'll see what I can do. We are about a block away from Las Ramblas, which is Barcelona's tourist hot spot. It is the most central part of the city and has a number of shops, restaurants and attractions. We took a short walk around earlier today but we were all so tired we didn't make far. For lunch we stopped at the Hard Rock Cafe. I know we have one in Ottawa but everything else seemed a little too overwhelming. We didn't want another starbucks experience. It must be famous here ... read more
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Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona » Barcelona August 18th 2012

It's day one of our two week trip and it started off way to early! Its about 4:35 am in Ottawa right now which makes it about 10:35 am here. Its beautiful, sunny and 27 degrees outside but we are all exhausted. Avery and Emily are napping on the couches in the hotel lounge as check-in time is only two o'clock. Due to my late night Thurday and the ability to sleep under any circumstance, I was able to get a couple hours in on the plane. I missed half of the Avengers though. I had a couple of issues with my phone yesterday as it decide to shut itself off Friday morning and almost losing it in the airport. I got lucky that my internal clock now wakes me up everyday at 7:30am and some ... read more




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