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Barcelona - Spain

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June 7th 2008
Saturday 7th June: Finally arrived in Barcelona at 3am after the flight was delayed in Nice for 2 hours. I struck up a conversation with two girls from Melbourne (half the airport in Nice seemed to be full of aussies). It´s a small world when you are in Nice and find someone lives around the corner from where I used to in Hawthorn East. I caught a cab from Barcelona airport and had to wake up Sea ... read more

Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

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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