Moto GP

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Hiya to all,

I have finally landed in Gregoryland, South Wales and what did we all do first?? Yep, you guessed it! Myself, Shani, Chris and Chris's workmate Iestyn decided to point our noses south and follow the sweet smell of two-stroke and burning rubber to Circuit de Catalunya. (For all you non-MotoGP people thats bike racing) Wild horses couldn't have kept us away!

A fantastic five days of numerous cafes, coffees, cathedrals, sightseeing, sangrias... oh and the race to go to as well. We even managed to catch a few soccer games. Barcelona was amazing and the race days soooo much fun. The crowd here is so different, very vocal and you can actually party in the stands without being told to sit by overzealous security people (you know like the ones at Adelaide oval who confiscate crickets balls off little kids) Although I am sort of glad that the flares that were set off were on the other side of the track.

The whole weekend went way too quickly..so much to see but so little time here..so many excuses to have to return one day. Now we are busy deciding whether to go to Donnington or not!!


Things I find disturbing chapter five:

Witnessing not one but two actual bag snatchings and not being close enough to trip up or get in the way of the cowardly shitheads who had pinched them..(or tackle them into a parked taxi like Alain did in Peru!). And I thought Barcelona would be safer than South America.




PS: Extra big Hello and Happy Birthday to Mum for saturday..Much love from all of us here.xxxx

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Photos

Barcelona
Shani and I doing one of the things we like best!

Barcelona 2
Iestyn and Chris joining us for sangria.

MotoGP
Aah, there's just something about the smell of being at a big race.

More beer anyone?
At one litre these were the smallest beers available at this particular cafe! Noone was complaining.

Barcelona
View from the sky lift.

Aaaahhh!
Chris being scared on the sky lift.

Local dance.
Lots of folks in the square doing some sort of regional dance. Don't know what it was called but we dubbed it the stickbag dance coz that's what they were dancing around! I guess walking sticks really are just for walking.

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The dance
The dance is called the Sardana. It's a pretty pacey little number huh?