Barcelona in winter

 

tragic departure and tragic arrival...

Departure from Malpensa (Milan ).... estimated time in the afternoon .... .... actual departure 02:00 hours at night .... no comment. we flew to Spain ...... after a thousand hours of waiting at the airport ...... in the middle of the night's start. We arrive at the destination and 03:30 .... icing on the cake .... nobody comes to take, despite being an organized vaiggio! then no transfer to hotel. then the only salvation in the middle of the night is a taxi. join us, me and Laura, to other unfortunate people who stay in our hotel .... starting ..... arrived at the hotel at 04:00 am on 03/01/04.
beautiful trip ... just beautiful!

First day

breakfast around nine ... because we had taken sleep at 5 o'clock in the morning during breakfast .... know 2 Italian girls who join us for practically all the time in the living room .... Anna and Gloria, Lombard, our companions This Spanish adventure. We start from the subway to get to .... in a main square of Barcelona .... where we held an Open bus to view the key things the city '. Obviously not turn lose the vision of Barcelona, go upstairs and the climate is not too rigid, allows us to endure 3 hours of guided tour. So we find 'the main beauties of the city'. Lunch along the Rambla, of course, the key now Paella original ..... exquisite!
After lunch a long and relaxing walk along the rambla, to the port. Pictures and photos, comments, many people, shopping, shooting with your camcorder and some in-depth knowledge to Anne and Gloria ...... see the beauty of the famous Rambla, including Hard Rock Cafe '. Taxi ...... ...... rinfrescatina hotel. Undaunted leave again being careful not to kill and kidnap us .... 4 girls alone at night in Barcelona, was not the best.
Let's go hunting for a restaurant that we were strongly advised, we find, dinner ..... spettacolo! Wonderful place, delicious dinner, the average low, excellent service! nothing better.
After dinner on the run again but Rambla just before midnight we see that the situation becomes unbearable ..... few people around despite being a fairly festive period .... tramps, groups of boys, it is cold and we are walking ok ..... and tired, we decide:
... taxi back to the girls back!
Calm, restful night .... at the very welcoming.

Spain.... We are coming.....

breakfast, metro, plaza Catalunya, we are going to review one by one the points as seen from bus the day before ..... the works of gaudi 'extended visit to the sagrada familia .... leave the rolls as' s water, walk around the holy days up and down 'x la citta' sometimes using the metro. for lunch, we recommend a small restaurant at the famous house of gaudi 'and eat the chapas. chapas and a typical way to eat of Barcelona are all smaller mini-tasting sessions and courses for first, second, side dishes, small dishes ..... you order at least 4 or 5 to make a complete meal from ..... miniature sausage all'insalata of vegetables a polyp, a typical Spanish courses. to finish in beauty ... cream catalana. removed some whim, the seems rambla magnetisation is along the famous street artists are photographed. full of people in the afternoon and come back to the port, good for viewing. dinner at a restaurant magnific ...... and after a jump all'hard rock cafe '. Turin hotel when, late at night in the lobby make friends with a guy a little Italian and allegrotto returned from a dinner with friends, tells us that his adventures and misadventures of life .....

Organized tour

from the morning's start with the coach for a gitarella in Barcelona, and regalataci trip organized by the tour operator to be forgiving of not coming to take us to the first night ..... so we visit 'Park Guell, the port Some beautiful areas of the city ', including the stadium, the lookout, again sagrada familia, residential areas, squares and monuments otherwise impossible to visit .... In the afternoon we return to the hotel and already we prepare 'for the evening. dinner at the usual place, now do not let even one hundred U.S. dollars for ..... we decide to go and see a performance of Spanish dance .... in a place that at first glance it seems to me a very night .. ... the observation that flamenco kidnaps us for about twenty minutes, after which only the streets of the city 'ahead and festive welcome. big party January 5 in Barcelona as the day before January 6, Epiphany, which for them is a very important holiday, like Christmas for us ...

last day

Travelers from the morning for areas of Barcelona more 'or less crowded .... everyone is celebrating and shops closed. arrive at the port would like to do a tour of the port catamaran las Golondrinas ..... ..... but nothing, all in celebration and then everything closed! after lunch on the fly and the last photographs along the rambla and some commercial center that is open, we return to the hotel where we expect x to the starting time of the airport. we get sad and tired and after the check in waiting for the flight to spain milan. announced late in this case, cabbage ..... the day after the office I expected.
turn to turn 23 and starting from Barcelona and we have not much time for the happy holiday Magona turbulence ..... coming soon!!
after twenty minutes ..... terrrore pure, can not wait to get there .... stop bologna ...... come to milan and the temperature becomes rigid immediately hear!
Farewell Barce!