BARCELONA, here we come!

BARCELONA, here we come!

 

As usual: it is the best DIY!

Vueling flight and is not a joke, a new low coast of Spain (www.vueling.com) by the new aircraft, almost spotless, punctual departures and staff really friendly and available, all for 52 euros round-trip including taxes, ah forgot ! Departure from Rome Fiumicino and arrival at BARCELONA El Prat.
We shared this short but intense adventure in the land of Spain with our dear amicioni: Mark, er mejo video editor holidays, and Mogno the "photographer" crazy (often fight with his digital machine and then have us peace in the evening, before going to sleep ...) and we? We Ca & Ca official organizers of the holiday!

Collected luggage we head to the airport where tourists buy 4 season tickets for 4 days in order to take advantage of bus and metro for an unlimited number of trips, cost 16.80 Euro each. Just find out from the stop of Airbus to reach Plaça Catalunya, the ticket is on board and costs 3.75 (buying return you pay less), to search for detailed information on the means of transport of Barça consult Official Site
www.emt-amb.com
Descend in Plaça Catalunya and we'll take the metro to reach our apartment is on www.apartments-flats-BARCELONA.com for 25 euros per night per person, total 300 euros including cleaning.
The apartment is nice and spacious and central location, 5 minutes from La Rambla, Port Vell (where the Maremagnum el'acquario) and the Passeig de Colom, but the way in which it is not very quiet, l 'We have been compared (exaggerated) in the alleys of the Spanish neighborhoods of Naples, mainly frequented by-country "propose" and smoke "bombs" every night, and if you are just lucky that someone pecking also offers hashish! However this excludes the house we liked.
Well well, first goal of the evening: FOOD! we make a short queue to enter the restaurant "La Fonda" (Carrer dels Escudellers, 10 tel. 93 301 75 15) near the house, eat good fish and meat paella but also to us (Ca & Ca) is not particularly enthused us overall is a nice room to be advised. After dinner we take confidence in the Rambla walking up and down from the usual vendors and potential smoke "pickpockets" who three times have focused our backpacks!
When walking on the Rambla day or night you make a 'careful not to lose sight of your bag.

The day after we leave the house at 11.15 am on (and she made us very comfortable, we are in Spain!) Itinerary: Battle House, Sagrada Familia, Parc Güell and Plaça Espanya.

Three subway stops away and we are faced with one of the inventions modernist architecture of Antoni Gaudi, Casa Battlo, smart, funny and amazing externally inside curves, clear-scurali games and bizarre shapes characterize environments.
After entry tickets priced 16.00 euros too, you deliver an audio guide that allows you to "understand" the house.
After two hours in the house by lunch Battle "Pans," fast food chain that will spread a little 'anywhere in the center.
We continue by metro to the Sagrada familia, once we get the ce face is enormous and the various pictures on the brochures do not make them absolutely Justice live is exciting, something else! Unfortunately, the cranes are part of the landscape and are going to join again for who knows how long (perhaps in 2025 as I heard ...), we decide not to enter, however the entrance is 8 euros.
Back in meters until Passeig de Gracia where we take the bus 24 which will take us to the entrance of Parc Güell in about half an hour (better take the bus from the metro route is the walk is longer)
And here in the park continue to photograph the impossible, and I challenge us to Mogno shots of "click", flowers, birds, columns, views, we have captured everything, si, si!
Happy and pleased we are approaching the underground for 1.5 km down, fortunately, and then go to Plaça Espanya, where there is the spectacle of the magic fountain.
The show is very beautiful, the lights and water jets of the fountain are accompanied by certain passages of classical music, the first show starts at 20.00 and at 20.30 seconds or so, we have seen on Friday and Saturday immortalizing all, especially Mark with a video camera also ribelle (batteries that sfiga ...)!
E 'ora di CENA, we still drag around looking for a place to eat, find shelter from "Tapa Tapa" at Passeig de Gracia, a local tourist but rather we throw ourselves into because we are tired and hungry. We plunge into the world of tapas: chipirones and calamares fritos a la romana are excellent, the crema catalana is good but maybe the ingredients are adjusted to our taste palates because it more resembles a classic pudding.
After dinner we were again in meters towards the house ... and because we lacked the undercurrent of rumors "smoke smoke bombs guys" come back on the Rambla, but today being Friday, there are a lot of tourists and less sides from cabbage!

It's a new day, the time finally gives us a clear sky and a temperature almost jeans jacket, now go out to a decent time on the Ramblas are setting up many stalls. Our itinerary will be the Boqueria Market, the Castle of Montjuic, the Aquarium and walk Maremagnum poor feet ... ... ..

The Market is located on the Rambla and already focuses on the way a mass of people. As you enter our attention is captured by the banks of fruit coloratisssima, every banana, orange, avocado, etc.. is arranged in an orderly manner. Begin to run between the shoals of fresh fish, meat, sausages perfume beautiful, the funny thing is that being under Carnival traders wear colored wigs and serve customers, its nice sti Spanish! E dulci sin fundo 2 girls in carnival clothes, even without clothes, that is the Brazilian bikini style carnival will wiggle dancing to the rhythm of drums for the whole market, of course, everything has been photographed and filmed (especially the dancers ....) In short, there is no escaping nullaaa!
There is the brilliant idea of making us sandwiches here at market-based Jamon Serrano, Spanish sausage and cheese and then towards Montjuic.
Exceeded the market a little further ahead there is an indication of the funicular to reach the Montjuic Park, take the funicular using the subscription and still have the trip takes just minutes. At the station we look around, not knowing which direction to take, all four with the question mark printed on the face we get a larger map magically appears when the "help" and that is a multi-cab driver who is proposing the move to the Castle with his car at a price of 5 euros for all, look at the top where he tells us to let us see where is the castle and the thought is the same for all "... 3-kilometer walk uphill ??!.... naaaaa! "catapulted us into his car convenient and easy to reach the castle, we salute the second best driver in BARCELONA, because the first is his father (in his opinion) and ... ... .. the first gun we meet, (not male head, the gun is true, of those who once fired the enemies!) we stop there and secluded away from the bora (the sky is clear but there is a wind!) and we prepare the baguette.
But talk of the castle, the visit is free, this is the highest in the city at 175 meters above sea level, you can enjoy a magnificent view over the sea and the city. Inside there is a military museum but we are not entered.

Second stage: Aquarium

Descend from the hill by taking the bus fleet with the usual subscription for the new cable car and walking up to the Aquarium.
What can be said of the aquarium? If you saw one of Genoa do not think you will be satisfied, it is certainly beautiful and the tunnel is suggestive but is not very big. The entrance costs 15 euros.
And now that you ... walk to the shopping center Maremagnum of where we buy gifts to take home and then travel to Fontana Magica to film the show, since the evening before the camera batteries were dead!

And to end the evening the pair will break out and we split for dinner, M & M back to the Foundation and we will throw in one of the Rambla localetti: take place at the bar ... and off with tapas and cerveza!

Sunday: Holiday end, we are with our noisy trolley Subway to make the trip to the inverse of (hic!) But before we give one last look around and salute the beloved vendors smoke and indiscreet pickpockets who have given company in our travels up and down this path ..

What about BARCELONA? modern and dynamic, is young and cheerful air, a feature on every corner. The Ramblas attract anyone to the street artists, cafes, street vendors chioschetti and movement of people which focuses on these "stroll."
The means of transport and underground network is so efficient that we, as those coming from Rome seems to be in the city of the future, we moved in meters for a single stop due to the impeccable punctuality!
E 'a city for which it would be worth a second visit even trying to get a little' more in the spirit of Spanish, Catalan indeed looking for "turguri" where you can listen to the songs and gypsy ... .. to do all that in three days you can not!
Useful Addresses
http://www.barcelonaturisme.com/
www.tablaocordobes.com
http://www.h4n.com (entered the site, beyond the hotel there are useful information)

And as always GOOD JOURNEY and who is and who to leave with his head never stops traveling.