Boulevard Lascrosses
4 июня 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The view from the patio at dinner.
Airbus museum
5 июня 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 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 givenЧитать далее
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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 июня 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
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This guy was eye level with me while coming up in the canal lock on the boat.
Carcassonne, Languedoc-Roussillon
6 июня 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Barcelona
7 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Arrival in Barcelona after 5.5 hours on the bus
Hotel Yurrban
7 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Rooftop pool, lounge, and bar. The view's not bad...
FC Barcelona Victory Parade
7 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ⛅ 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 forЧитать далее
Camp Nou
8 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ⛅ 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.
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4 of the Champions League trophies. The 5th that they just won is still being paraded around.
Casa Batlló
9 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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, evenЧитать далее
Pronovias
10 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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;Читать далее
Hotel rooftop
10 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
Post-dinner session on the roof after another really tough day.
La Roca Village
11 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 apparentlyЧитать далее
Iberico Ham!!!!
11 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Look it up...and if you're ever in Barcelona, find Cafe Alfonso. You won't regret it.
Final exam
12 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 togetherЧитать далее
Futbol
12 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ⛅ 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'reЧитать далее
Hotel Yurrban
12 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня 2015 г., Испания ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Heading home
Atlanta airport
13 июня 2015 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 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 ofЧитать далее
Finally home
13 июня 2015 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌙 33 °C
You seem to be working hard....RB