Blogs from Catalonia, Spain, Europe - page 267

So we returned from Barcelona- alive! Our hostal turned out to be in the best possible location ever! Good job, B! It was right on Las Ramblas, the main street in Barcelona, which starts at Placa de Catalunya (center of town and shopping) and goes all the way to the Meditteranean. Also, our hostal was right between two Metro stops which was very helpful since we opted to make our way around the city to all the tourist places on our own using the train as opposed to paying 42 Euros total for touristy bus passes. We ended up spending only 12.40 Euros on travel—not to mention the 3 Euros we had to spend for cab fare Saturday night after the trains stopped running. So first, we stayed in Barcelona for two days … Touristy places ... read more

Your not in France anymore when prositutes line the main highways under sun umbrellas looking to make someone a lucky man, whilst that man is on transit to the nearby airport. It hits you in suprise and it is damn classy. Particulary the "we don't even need to stop to take off my clothes" aspect of their atire. Wonder if those on arrivals or departures get more buisnes? I LOVED Barcelona!! (not because of the prositutes). It was fantastic. The culture is fantastic wine and fantastic tappas, music and dancing, the colours are bright loads of red). Archictecture is amazing, especially all the Gaudi around the city. The unfinished cathedral particulary spectacular. The city's landscape and lights particularly attractive. The waterfront and beaches beautiful, expect mind the plastic bags when your wading out in the water. ... read more

Strange morning. I was a big girl and joined Mark (Mark David) and Gudrund (or however you spell it) at breakfast. The tension between me and Mark was so thick I bet trying to cut it with diamond blade knife would be rough going. He is probably the first person that I didn´t exchange information with and we gave each other the coldest goodbye. He asked if I was heading out to see the sights one last time because that´s what we had planned and I said I didn´t have enough time (excuses are better when they´re actually true). So we looked at each other one last time and said “goodbye”. No hug. No “if you´re ever in my part of the world look me up”. Nothing. It was like a “have a nice life” farewell. ... read more

Well I am sorry it has taken me a week to write but it has been hard to find the chance to sit at a computer for long enough to write all the things I want to write because there is so much! Now that I am settled I have found a really nice, little internet café just 3 ½ blocks away. My senoras name is Ana and she is so nice, a bit of an exhibitionist but so sweet. She is actually Kelsey (my friend from school who is here with me) senoras mother so I refer to her as grandma. Not to mention she takes good care of like a grandmother. She also is not a bad cook. Ana’s apartment is really nice and big. It has four bedrooms and for the next month ... read more

i'm definitely back in the reality of travelling (no longer holidaying)!! i arrived here on thursday night after a full day of flying. oh by the way, i flew with virgin express (equivelant of virgin blue) and i had a 3 hour stop over in brussels. it was good to get back to belgium again. not that i saw any of it. i was hanging for some belgian chocolate again but a box the same size that i bought for 3 euros in brugge cost a very affordable (not) 15 euros. no belgian chocky for me. how sad!! flight was ok. no tv though. no food either. so it was pretty terrible actually. luckily i had a good book - my 3rd dan brown so far. yesterday wasn't the best day. didn't get much done. i ... read more