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October 17th 2017 After an amazingly cheap ($!50 for Simon, $200 for me) but awful 11 hour overnight direct flight from San Francisco to Barcelona, we checked into the Vasanta Hostal Boutique near the Plaça de Catalunya, the center of the interesting sites. After a dinner of paella, Simon rested while I went for a neighborhood walk to take in the architecture and shops. Some of the buildings are in the Modernisme
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