Barcelona building 2

A quick stopover in Barcelona

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October 9th 2012
We flew out of Casablanca on Royal Air Morocco. As we boarded the plane, I hoped the maintenance crew had done a better job than the check-in staff. Check-in was a shambles with only one person serving all the flights and the passengers trying to get to the front of five lines of queue. We stayed at the Sunshine Hostel just off La Rambla in Barcelona. It was fairly ordinary and we had the worst ... 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