Food Market – Barcelona
Great food market and a good place for cheap lunch.. Would recommend shopping early though as the stalls start to shut at about 2:00pm in the afternoon.
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La Rambala
Barcelona is a great city. We thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ll put some photos onto the blog for you now.
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Train Wash Anyone?
Well, they could have washed it before I got on. The Eurostar is now faster on the London side amazing what 5 years and a bit of track work can do. I look forward to the next trip when it will be fast all the way into London.
Look some sun.
I may be freezing when the wind blows, it may be summer, all can be forgiven because for our half hour on the Lodon Eye actually had some sun……… Not full sun.. only some. But it makes a lot of difference to the photos. This photo was taken about 30 minutes ago..
A tourist trap it is, but a good on at that.
Barbizon Library
Some of you may notice the lack of library photos from this holiday. They aren´t as easy to find here! However whenever I have found one it has been shut – which is probably a good thing.
The opening hours have been interesting – take a look at these. I wonder if my work place would like to change to these hours but shtill pay me the same. oh well I can dream :)
Barbizon Library is a little town – which reminds me of Harndorf but without the piped music. The shops are very cute, and the buildings are lovely. When we can get to a computer terminal that enables us to use USB I will add some photos to my flickr page.
Easy Internet Cafe computers are %$·”. They still use Windows 98!!!
Barcelona and all that
Sorry no photos today. Easyinternet sucks big time. It uses Windows 98 and the USB port is completely dead. Grumble – I´ll boycott them in London so hopefully you´ll get to see some photos soon.
Barcelona has hit the top 10 of my favourite cities in the world. The old town is a walkers paradise with a myriad of tiny pedestrainised paths hiding all sorts of fascinating things. For those gunzels out there its public transport system is integrated, its prices reasonable and its metro makes it a breeze to get around.
The Spanish experience commenced on the night train, which offered a comfortable service with everything in Spanish and Spanish speaking staff only. The food on board the train was good too. We had thought we had left the French speaking world behind. But our dinner companions was an elderly artist from Paris, who had lived in Melbourne from 1947 to 1950 and wished to speak in English to us Australians because he has fond memories of Melbourne. He was travelling with his brother in law from Switzerland. It is a sad day when my French has to be relied on for translations.
We´ve seen lots of art and lots of hot sweaty bodies. Gorged ourselves on Paella and other good food. Tonight its the turn of the Tapas bar washed down with good local beer. Tomorrow we return by night train so I will be filled again with good spanish food.
I need to increase my fitness regime and go on a diet when I come back.
Float
While waiting for the cyclists to turn up, an hour before the caravan of cars and floats goes by the entire route – rain or shine.
When we watched the start of stage 7, it rained on and off for about two hours. When this went by the lion and the guy look drenched. I don´t know if I would want to drive this the entire legth of the race!
It was disappointing that you couldn´t even by a small one of these at the sales tent… but we did get a couple of t-shirts :)
Helen Firewoman
Helen asked me not to upload this photo… but she uploaded mine..
Here she stands with the full kit on breathing through the fireman breathing apparatus.
It is hot!!! and there is no fire.
French Food…
We have eaten soo much French food, I know I have gained weight. We have eaten:
Frogs legs
Duck Gizzards
Sea snails
and a variety of sea food for which I can not remember the names. Not forgetting, crossants, french bread (ah), normandie butter, vast quantities of drinks. looking forward to going to the gym!
BTW – this meal was fabulous!
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