I am wearing red. To be more precise I am wearing bright red linen, cropped trousers. I say cropped, they feel much longer as they graze my ankles. On Saturday I found out I am barely five foot two. I am officially short, I knew I was short, but not THAT short. The realisation that …
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A BIT OF A LAUGH….
A leisurely start to the day with Pete bringing pastries the size of plates back to the hotel. We decided to be far more focused today and make sure our plans were carried out more or less to the letter. We had been told by the Irish couple that the History Museum of Barcelona was …
A BIT OF THIS AND THAT……
This morning my head got turned by the frivolities of shopping. The plan was to go to a modern art gallery. However, we left the hotel and we ended up going past C&A, from that point I was lost to consumerism. Pete got me a great cardigan in the sales. I have never understood why …
TAPAS TUESDAY
We sampled another guided walk today, the Gothic tour with Albert, a native of Barcelona and a historian. Quite different from the last tour but just as informative. It was a much smaller group this time, just a couple from Northern Ireland, Belfast and Derry. The man had been here 14 times as his sister …
MONDAY MARKETS …
As with many European places it was more limited in terms of where we could go as it was Monday. Not far from the hotel is the Mercado de La Boqueria. The first mention of it being a market dates back to 1217 when it was recorded that meat was sold from tables. I love …
A NEW DAY ….
Putting to bed the issues from the day before we decided to just concentrate on having a good time. We had such a lovely breakfast and being quite cheeky and having gone way over budget I proceeded to make sandwiches and rifle the fruit bowl etc for a substantial packed lunch. Less frazzled we were …
Fireworks galore…
By the time it was about 6 o’clock we had reached the end of our tether. Concerned that a big burly pimp would burst through the door and put the fear of god into us. We left and went to a cafe not far away but far enough from the place. By this point we …
BRACING OURSELVES FOR BARCELONA……
Leaving teaching after 35 years I thought it would be fitting to holiday in Barcelona, the scene of my first school trip 35 years ago. Memories of the trip are vague but happy. One stands out which involved ushering the students across a busy road. Completely forgetting that the cars would be coming in a …
A Dabble in Dublin
So on the rare occasion they actually deliver the Welsh Daily Post to my mum, she found an offer to go to Dublin £12 return. Decided to book, although at the weekend it’s £15 which was still a bargain. Got very confused,flustered and discombobulated trying to find how to get to the ferry port as …
Just Wow, wow, wow….
We got picked up earlyish to be taken to the Manuel Antonio Park. Our guide would be Alsandro. We didn’t expect to bump into Shish and Joyti as they were going with a hotel tour. Manuel Antonio Park is one of the smallest national parks but despite that it is listed in the Forbes list …
Random Acts of Travelling 