Spain Travel Blogs - Page 7

Terry Gifford, our climbing instructor of last time, introduced us to our garment for the coming week at the night of our arrival. Learning the knots, trying on our harnasses, coiling the ropes and of course the helmets. He took his time to get us reacquainted with the gear. Through the e-mail corr…

My almost weeklong trip to Barcelona, sadly during the off season, but still great! Wish I could have used Spanish more, but they don't speak it as much there! :-P The dates are also screwed up in this album, I will try and fix that when I can get to it.

I went to Barcelona with two friends Marc and Manu for our first out off Belgium golf game. We had talked about playing somewhere else than in Belgium and we thought that Spain would be a good place this time of year. We had chosen to play approximately 100km north of Barcelona; where I had manag…

The Silver Living Statues Of Sevilla stand very still on a silver wheeled box or crate like a real statue until money was dropped into “The Hat”.  The Silver Lady of Sevilla would then nod her head smile, curtsy & spin her Silver Roses. The Sevilla Silver Soldier would stand guard stil…

I don't know what it is with this place - maybe it's just Madrid, hell maybe it's just Madrid AIRPORT. But people here are SO FREAKING RUDE! I think today was just a really sucky start to a day. But one thing for sure, my brain is now set so that whenever I get to Madrid airport I have to be "don't…

GEEZ... this was a very long day, so it’s going to be a very long entry. Didn’t get a lot of sleep. Josh snoring should have been the least of my worries with drunk girls stumbling in at all hours of the morning. It was nice to take a shower in a bathroom all to myself in a hostel though…

Time to edit in the detail :-) now that we are home :-( Had wanted to go to Madrid for some while, and it was everything I had hoped for and more. Had expected Barcelona to be more like this, which is probably why I was so disappointed there. Arrived at Barajas Airport just after 1pm local t…

Hmmm, Ibiza.  Let me start with the disclaimer that I have wanted to go to Ibiza for years.  House music, beaches, hedonists…what is not to like?  But maybe this was my downfall.  I won’t say I didn’t have a good time there, but I think I was expecting more.  The beac…

La Rambla was filled with street performance and this guy on one hand was one of many that performed for a lot of people who stood around watching with smiles and amazments. My son was taking lots of photos of most of them haha i think i might have about a 100 photos of just acrobats jumping around…

4th July 2008 Sleep was obviously too good, as we ended up waking up quite late today. Hannah and I said we’d get up early to shower and get ready by the time the boys got back from the hut, but we got up when Alex decided to jump on us in the morning.   We dragged ourselves out of bed, a…

This last Friday I had the opportunity to meet 14 travbuddies I only knew online! It was a fun day, pitty we did not have the chance to spend more time together! At night we were invited to a big party with swimming pool and a funny castle!

Pictures & Thoughts from a 07:27 780 Second Sevilla SunUp Stroll by Old School Bill & Friends The memory of a morning walk in Sevilla will remain with you always ~Old School Bill If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a …

While in Barcelona I had the joy to meet the wonderful Diabolo spinning tin wistle playing lovely Irishman Ogi. His wistle playing was really amazing and inspiring, made me wonder if all Irish people could play and what kind of magical music making must take place back on his Island.While couch sur…

I drove into Andorra and as always I had really enjoyed the trip up to the Pas de la Casa where the border is situated. I had driven this way now a numerous of times and I really enjoyed it every time. Andorra as such is maybe not so exciting but I like the mountains walls on both sides of the road…

Well my time here in Barcelona is coming to an end.  I just finished a presentation for my last class and I only have one paper left to write.  Its funny because not only I am getting ready to leave Barcelona, I am also done with my MBA.  My time here in Barcelona has been wonderful.…