Barcelona Travel Blogs - Page 11

Barcelona defintely does not disappoint!  My only regret about my trip to scenic Barcelona is that I only spent three nights there.  I was traveling with a buddy and a married couple and we all had different agendas.  We did manage, however, to find a nice balance between explor…

barcelona!

A visit to Barcelona without a stroll down Las Ramblas and a look into the Boquería market would be like... hmmm...  a paella without rice?  Café con leche without the leche?  Something like that, it just wouldn't be complete.  This is a fantastic place to wander aro…

Barcelona 08

Today was a day of travel, to say the least.  Awaking at 4 am to see off my UofHawaii homegirls - they are off to other parts of Eastern Europe, I then packed up shop and put myself on a train to Vienna.  Why Vienna?  Simple, the only way to travel light is to ditch your gear.  …

Yeah baby, On the way to the "warm" Nepal

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In a relatively seamless and hassle free sequence of events, I left San Francisco at 9pm (California time) on Thursday, flew to Munich, changed planes, flew to Barcelona, and found my friend's apartment in Barcelona by 10pm (Europe time) on Friday night - where I rendezvoused with Ad…

The catalan capital commemorates its escape from plague through the intercession of Our Lady Of Mercy, to whom terrified citizens turned for deliverance. All these centuries later the event is marked by a long weekend festival culminating in the Mercé anniversary on September 24th. This is a very …

Sorry for the lack of an entry tonight. I am way too tired and it is way too late and my train leaves way to early in the morning for me to write it out now. I will have plenty of time to do that in the morning, and hopefully I can get it and tomorrows up tomorrow night at Owens (the CSer I am…

Barcelona is not considered the "party capital" of Spain for nothing. In between my pre-intensive language program in Cadiz and my intensive language program in Granada, I had a week break and decided to join two of my friends on a week long trip to Barcelona. Seven days was not enough to see all…

Capital of Catalonia

We went on a bus tour of some of Barcelona today.  We saw the Olympic Village and the statue of Christopher Columbus.  We went on a walking tour with Mikey, saw the cathedral of Barcelona, the Royal Square, and the Judical Square before strolling down La Rambla street.  The street ma…

Inspired by travelman727's review, here is a blog listing some of my favorite places to grub from around the world.

After arriving to Barcelona on Tuesday, we were a little surprised to see Catalan instead of spanish on the map.  We were looking for La Paza de Palau, but realized it was actually Placa de Palau.  Supposedly not in a very good area, but the hotel was very nice (wish I could remember the …