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Plaça dels Voluntaris Olímpics

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    • Day 13

      Barcelona day 2

      April 3 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      Today, we got up and B lined to the beach. The sun was out, and it was finally our first hot day. We walked for probably an hour and half (half of which was on the highway). Once we got there, we realized we walked straight to the cargo port, and the beach was almost a 2 hour walk away. So we changed our plans. We started walking to Sagrada De Famillia, and it was also an hour and a half away. We stopped for lunch once we got halfway there and learned all the tickets were sold out. We were getting frustrated, but luckily, we ordered carne paella, and it saved the day. It was so good. Now, back to the beach plan. We found a nice spot to chill in the sand and just relax. The beach was so busy it was ridiculous. There were so many beach vendors trying to sell us alcohol, drugs, blankets, and massages. These guys start their prices really high, and when we say no their very quick to lower their price. One guys starting price was 2 beers for 4€ we said we needed 4 beers and that his price was too much. He said he only has 3, but if we pay him now, he'll go grab us another. We said no, thank you. About 30 minutes later, he came back with 4 beers and changed his price to 5€. We took the fella up on it, and all of a sudden, we were swarmed by vendors lol. Maybe I'm a baby, but the water was way too cold to swim in lol. I got a sunburn on my neck because I absolutely refused sunscreen. It'll be a tan in a few days, though lol. We took the bus back to the hostel because it offers free vegetarian dinner every night. So we stopped at the grocery store and picked up some sandwich meat to add to the veggies they cooked lol. You'll have to ask Pearse if the veggies were good, but the sandwich meat was pretty good lol. I think the sun drained us because we were so tired last night. We just chilled out in the common area. Pearse passed out down there, and when we were finally kicked out, I woke him and said, "Let's go to bed." His response was, "No, I'm just gonna go back to the hostel" I think that says how tired we were lol.Read more

    • Day 52

      Last day in Barcelona

      June 21, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

      Day started with bacon & eggs as usual plus the other hotel breakfast goodies!
      Off to the laundromat and a dress shop on the way. It is utterly fascinating that each little area has a wonderful array of shops tucked away. I guess the population density means that they can all make a living. Cecily & I ( slightly discouraged from our failures yesterday) gave it our best. It was reasonably priced so we had a
      good time purchasing. I do wonder when I will wear the dress I bought! But that’s just the perils of shopping away from home.
      It’s fascinating how many conversations with complete strangers are had while waiting for laundry! I even took one woman back to the dress shop!
      Time to walk to the beach front and suss out the sailing trip that had been booked for us. When we arrived it was evident that the sea was fairly rough from a northerly 15 knot wind. The operator was very reasonable - he obviously didn’t want to deal with six elderly sea sick passengers. After careful consideration the trip was cancelled. We walked along the sea front of Little Barcelona, looking at the fab and not so fab bathers!!!!
      Stopped on the walk back to the city for dinner. 20,000 steps + today. Back to our hotel H10 20 Urqinaona for bag packing, ready for an early start tomorrow and our flight to Split.
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    • Day 5

      Barcelone

      November 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

      01h56
      Réveillé depuis maintenant 19h, j'arrive pas à fermer l'œil. J'ai fini mon quart à 1h et depuis, j'ai l'impression que chacune de ces foutues vagues va detruire la coque du bateau. Le bruit est tellement assourdissant que mes boules quies ou ma musique n'arrivent pas à me le faire oublier. À de rares occasions, trois vagues s'enchaînent de manière fluide et on a l'impression de pouvoir trouver la paix mais l'instant d'apres, l'étrave du bateau s'écrase une nouvelle fois. Même apres une heure de combat, le choc reste toujours aussi surprenant par sa puissance et son bruit. Moi qui etait si serein au depart commence à légèrement douter, mais je continuerai de rassurer Zouille qui se demande si la bateau va tenir

      5/11 - 20h45
      Hier matin on arrive vers 8h à Barcelone, il faut qu'on attende 10h avant que la capitainerie ouvre et qu'on ait le droit de quitter le navire. Cest toujours particulier de savoir si on est completement libre de quitter le boat ou pas sachant qu'on est pas en France. On a entendu pas mal d'histoire de personnes s'étant faites emmerder donc on préfère que le capitaine aille seul avec nos passeports histoire de montrer patte blanche.
      10h30 (Attention Espagne) on obtient les codes pour les toilettes, chacun part se passer un petit coup de polish et on part se balader. Arthur, le frere de Paulo nous attend sur le capway avec les croissants, ça fait un bail qu'ils s'étaient pas vu. Sur le quai les retrouvailles sont assez breves, arthur va s'occuper de son fils et retrouvera Paul au soir. Elou et You partent de leur côté et nous rejoindrons plus tard. Avec les autres, on part direction le quartier gothique et on va à un grand marché couvert, les rues sont assez touristiques mais chacune des boutiques donne envie de depenser. La nourriture à l'air excellente et ça rigole un peu partout. Les rues piétonnes sont vraiment agreable et il regne une ambiance assez posée. On se balade et on croise une pub pour BK 2,49€ le whopper, on peut pas laisser passer ça et zou, ça part en enfournage de malbouffe dans le gosio.

      On passe se faire quelques fripes, elles sont de qualités tip top comparés à celles de Paris et il y en a absolument partout. Je me trouve un petit short et une belle chemise, ca fait mal au porte monnaie mais l'occasion est belle. You trouve un spot legendaire de skate à côté d'un musée, le MACBA. Un type en covoitirage qui faisait du skate au niveau national en France et au Bresil nous racontait que Aurelien Giraud avait replaqué une figure mythique sur le spot, alors on se met la video en etant sur le spot. C'est completement culte, le mec a fait un saut de 7m de long et genre 4m de haut. Il a traversé une rue et sauté une dizaine de marche avec un kick flip, incroyable.

      On se sépare un petit coup, je me retrouve avec Elsa Gervais et Elouan, on vaguenaude sans aucun but et on saute sur l'occasion de boire une bière vers 17h30. On recherche donc un bar avec les prix les moins cher et on se retroube dans un bar magnifique pro skate, avec le litre de caipi à 13€, des mecs qui font du skate dans un bowl, un photomaton. Gervais me suit dans la caipi gargantuesque et on se rend vite compte que ça va etre un sacré chantier, ceci dit ca s'est bien passé.

      Youen nous rejoint avec Léa et Guedon, on fini la caipi et on part se faire une ou deux fripes en full bonus avec You. Je tombe sur la plus belle fripe de ma vie et je regrette de pas avoir argent infini tellement tout est magnifique.
      On se reprend un petit whopper sur le pouce et on rentre au bateau.
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    • Day 3

      Strandtag!

      September 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 29 °C

      Diesen Tag haben wir ausschließlich am Strand verbracht. Die Wellen waren immer noch hoch und stark wie am Vortag (als es sehr windig war), aber machbar.
      Am Abend gingen wir in eines der vielen guten Restaurants in unserer Nachbarschaft und aßen leckere Pasta.Read more

    • Day 6

      Barcelona Calatrava Tower

      November 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      Day 6 [Monday]: A visit to the Calatrava Tower. Early in the morning we went by metro and then by bus to find this tower. We came in a neighbourhood not far from the Barceloneta beach. We could see the tall two towers. The apartments here looked very new and there was also a huge park, but it was not near the Calatrava Tower. Again, to avoid much walking, we decided to go there by taxi. It seemed to be situated near Mount Montjuïc. We tried to find the entrance but failed to do so. There are many steps here and we were already tired from walking. We took some nice pictures and from here we went by bus to our next goal, the Spanish Village (Poble Espanyol).

      The Calatrava Tower was designed by Santiago Calatrava. Construction began in 1989 and was completed in 1992. The white tower was built for the Spanish company Telefónica to broadcast television images of the 1992 Summer Olympics. The 136 meter high tower is located in the Olympic Park and depicts an athlete holding the Olympic flame.

      The foot is covered with 'trencadís', Gaudí's mosaic style made from the shards of broken tiles.

      Due to the position of the tower, it is also a very large sundial using Europe Square to indicate the time.

      A replica of the tower is given as a trophy in the Grand Prix of Spain.

      barcelona.com/barcelona_directory/monuments/cal…
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    • Day 115

      Barcelona, Sagrada Familia and Beach

      September 14, 2019 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      After the driving the day before so many kilometers, I was looking forward to get some ☀.
      The Sagrada Familia is always impressive and something really special. I heard about the long waiting lines and that you better have to book an online ticket. Even they were booked out for that day. I took is as a hint as I anyway wanted to be outside in the sun.
      I asked people if they wanted to draw their dream. But all people were so stressed in getting a ticket, that nobody was in the mood of resting a minute. That really reminded me to Monaco where Noone wanted to draw something.
      I had been living in Barcelona a few years ago, working as a car designer. That's why I did not have the "pressure" of doing sightseeing as I know the city quite well.
      So I could go really relaxed (by bike) to barcelonetta to the city Beach, what I really enjoyed.
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    • Day 1

      Barcelona Harbour

      January 7, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

      First glimpse of Barcelona and some of its beaches which in preparation for the Barcelona Olympics had sand shipped in from the Sahara.
      Apparently there is a nudist beach close to the city however not enough time to visit it...d’oh!

      The city of Barcelona has a waterfront not dissimilar to aspects of StKilda beach in the number of cafes and bars that face the ocean.

      The number of cafes and tapas bars are amazing and I wonder how they are all supported however if you understand how tapas is eaten it makes more sense. It is common practice for people to visit three to four tapas bars a night to eat the different types of food available at each bar.

      Barcelona on first impressions is a much more interesting and pleasant place than Madrid...it seems more relaxed and green and traditional.
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    • Day 45

      Barcelonita

      June 21, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      We were due to go sailing but the weather wasn’t playing ball, there were lots of white caps. After watching lots of boats bobbing up and down we cancelled , as suggested by the boat man. It was very warm, 30 degrees at 6 pm. The first day of summer here and everyone was at this beach suburb after workRead more

    • Day 2

      Einen Tag Barcelona

      August 25, 2019 in Spain ⋅ 25 °C

      Ziel des Urlaubs war es sich am Strand oder in der gemieteten Villa sinnlos zu betrinken. Klar war aber auch, dass man sich Barcelona einmal anschauen muss, wenn man eh schon dort landet.
      Wir haben also eine Tour durch die Stadt gemacht und viele tolle Eindrücke mitnehmen können. Heute (3 Jahre später) ärgere ich mich, dass Barcelona nur einen Tag Aufmerksamkeit von uns bekommen hat.Read more

    • Day 2

      Port Barcelona

      July 3, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

      Ankunft in Barcelona!

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