Archive for August, 2008
Castellers
The famous Gracia festival is going on and one of the highlights is the performance of Castellers of the Villa de Gracia. Castellers form human pyramids, anywhere from 6 -10 “stories” high. The top two/three stories are teens and kids, with the top story being a kid, 5-7 years old, who scales the [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under All.
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Girona
Next to Dubrovnik, Girona is the most gorgeous city we have been to (and Dubrovnik only takes the prize because it is next to the sea). Here are a few images.
Posted: August 16th, 2008 under All.
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Random images of Barca
The view from the beach club:
A street festival near our flat:
A kayak exhibit at the Olympic Museum:
This yacht followed us from Barca up the Costa Brava. It’s the 79th largest yacht in the world.
Posted: August 13th, 2008 under All, Day in and Day out.
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A Day in Fake Life
We have affectionately dubbed our time in Barca as “fake life”. Why? Take a look at a typical fake life day…
10:00 wake up
10:00 – 11:00 surf internet, read, drink chocolati
11:00 motivate to run or go to gym
11:00-12:30/13:00 work out at gym
12:30 – 17:30 sit in lounge [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2008 under All, Day in and Day out.
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A Study in two Meals
Last week, we had two of the best meals ever and they could not have been more different.
The first was a tasting menu at Cinc Sentits. We didn’t realise the restaurant was tasting menu only, which can be problematic for me (or I can be problematic for it). But the restaurant [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2008 under All.
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Barcelona Update #2
Hola! Thought we’d let people know what we’ve been up to. We’ve been in Barcelona for 3 weeks now and it is definitely feeling different than just a long vacation. We’ve done lots of exploring in the city, found a gym/beach-club, a few great local pubs, have started to venture outside of the [...]
Posted: August 4th, 2008 under All.
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