Barcelona From Above

Chabango aka Quadropods

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January 26th 2008
Another nice early start and we were ready to head out to Montjuic. All the guidebooks say that this is an unmissable part of Barcelona so with very little else to do we decided to go there. We opted out of the cable car option knowing the cost of it and instead bought a metro ticket which enabled us to use the metro and the funicular. We got off the funicular and we appeared to be in the middle o ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more