Boulevard Lascrosses
4. kesäkuuta 2015, Ranska ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The view from the patio at dinner.
Airbus museum
5. kesäkuuta 2015, Ranska ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Nice museum, but I suspect it was just a holding area for us while our passports were checked against a database. We had to turn them in for the duration of the museum visit before being givenLue lisää
Matkaaja
Me and my roommate Dan. He's a turbine engineer at Honeywell so he might even have been more interested in this stuff than me. Many of his company's products are in the A380 that we're going to see.
Tell Airbus that the entertainment systems on their USAirways/American A330s suck. The user interface is abysmal, the screen rarely registers a touch, and it's not fair that ours didn't work but the guys' across the aisle did. Wah, first world problems. Pal
Airbus A380 Final Assembly Center
5. kesäkuuta 2015, Ranska ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Final assembly and testing center for the A380. No pictures allowed and access was tightly controlled. Pretty amazing to see.
Carcassonne canal cruise
6. kesäkuuta 2015, Ranska ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Carcassonne, Languedoc-Roussillon
6. kesäkuuta 2015, Ranska ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The immense castle & town of Carcassonne. A little touristy but the castle and town inside the old city walls were cool. Huge- our guide said the city walls were 5 km long with over 50 towers.
Toulouse
6. kesäkuuta 2015, Ranska ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Barcelona
7. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Arrival in Barcelona after 5.5 hours on the bus
Hotel Yurrban
7. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Rooftop pool, lounge, and bar. The view's not bad...
FC Barcelona Victory Parade
7. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Crowds are out lining the parade route to celebrate Barca's 3-1 Champions League victory over Juventus last night in Berlin
Montserrat
8. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Train ride out of town to visit the cliffside abbey, cave of St. Mary, and the Black Madonna. The cable car was built in 1930...but it was the Germans, so we could trust it.
Barcelona bus tour
8. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Full-on tourist mode. Headphones and audio track in English. They seem to like some old architect named Gaudi here...the cathedral is La Sagrada Familia, it's a very famous Barcelona landmark forLue lisää
Camp Nou
8. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Home of FC Barcelona and Messi. Some consider it the second-most famous cathedral in the city. It was awesome standing in the tunnel and then coming out on the pitch like the players do.
Casa Batlló
9. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
One of Gaudi's masterpieces, designed in 1904, it was a renovation of an existing residence. It was hard to get good pictures but it was really nice- a very clever structural design and layout, evenLue lisää
Pronovias
10. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Company visit...apparently they are a world famous maker of wedding dresses? I've never heard of them but the girls in the group are very excited.
La Rambla to the beach
10. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
A nice walk down from the hotel to the beach, via the famous (infamous?) La Rambla. The beach was packed and the sand was rough and funky. Someone said it was all brought over from the African coast;Lue lisää
Hotel rooftop
10. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
Post-dinner session on the roof after another really tough day.
La Roca Village
11. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
This was a company visit for a "luxury outlet shopping" operator. They have multiple villages around Europe and now in China. It looked like a fancy outdoor mall but it was all outlet. It's apparentlyLue lisää
Iberico Ham!!!!
11. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Look it up...and if you're ever in Barcelona, find Cafe Alfonso. You won't regret it.
Final exam
12. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
I haven't handwritten that much in a long time. Apparently the norm over here is still basically the blue book, which I think is actually better at testing whether you can get your thoughts togetherLue lisää
Futbol
12. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
It's no surprise the Spanish are good at it. Here's the rooftop playground of a school that I can see from our hotel roof.
Sitges
12. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
One last group excursion before dinner tonight and departure tomorrow. Sitges is a very nice little beach town where we plan to eat lunch and sit in the sun for a while. My new friends think they'reLue lisää
Hotel Yurrban
12. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
One last rooftop session before a birthday dinner and a long trip home tomorrow. Contemplating all I've learned here? It's a beautiful evening.
Barcelona airport
13. kesäkuuta 2015, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Heading home
Atlanta airport
13. kesäkuuta 2015, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Back in the US after a 10 hour flight. 4.5 hours until the flight to Phoenix. Customs and immigration, luggage pickup and drop off, and the decision to walk from E terminal to A only wasted 1.5 ofLue lisää
You seem to be working hard....RB