May312009

One word: Barcelona

So we are one day in the trip (well, 2), and I didn’t find my trinket yet, but I did take some good pictures already. Lots of them need some treatment, and I forgot to install the proper imaging tools, so blah.

Still, a few pictures:

Statue of Colombus A Picasso sculpture Plants on balconies A view up at the Church of Santa Maria Statue at entrance from the Parc de la Ciutadella Arc de Triomf

Things we learned

Barcelona is probably the best place I’ve been in my life. Spanish television is funny, especially the ads. The food is amazing so far. Wine and beer is A LOT cheaper than in North America. We find people very creative when it comes to parking cars, or driving in the streets. Clean city. Good bars.

We walked a lot, since it’s how to end up finding the weirdest (and most awesome) things in a city. And a wedding was happening in one of the plazas we went in, and we saw this dance:

Traditional (?) dance in Barcelona from Frédéric Lemieux on Vimeo.

We are staying right in the middle of Barri Gotic, the oldest part of Barcelona.

the very first street we walked on in Barri Gotic

What is great is it is filled with nice restaurants, and most streets are really busy at night. A must-be place. Tomorrow I’ll post a few restaurants you may want to try.

So in the end we didn’t really visit much, but we got a really nice feel of the place. What sucks though, is that the Gaudi Fountain is being renovated (GAH), as well as the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia (La Seu), for which I didn’t even bother to take a picture, that’s how pissed I saw, that 2 things I really wanted to see were closed off.

But all in all, a great first day, and I wanna stay here for the remainder of my life. 2nd was even better, but that’s for tomorrow.

Good night!

May292009
Barcelona, Paris, EUROPE, here we come!

As some of you may know (and since only some of you follow this blog), we are leaving for Barcelona tonight!

You can easily imagine how stressed we are at the moment. It’s the first time we leave the continent, and now that we have done everything from packing to organising, we can only wait the flight leaving tonight, and the wait is excrutiating.

While we’re there, I intend to accomplish a few things, ranging from taking awesome picture with our new camera, to finding a new trinket for my necklace (my wife bought me one last Christmas, and I lost it).

We’re also doing a road trip, form Barcelona to Paris, where this endeavour will finish:View Our Barcelona-Paris trip in a larger map

I’ve set up this blog to pick my Flickr pics, and videos posted under my Vimeo account there was a problem with the Vimeo feed, seems it doesn’t get picked up by Tumblr or something, at least mine doesn’t.

I’ve also reverted my Twitter scheme, so now Twitter posts here, instead of this blog posting to Twitter. So follow me from Tumblr instead!

Barcelona, Paris, EUROPE, here we come!

As some of you may know (and since only some of you follow this blog), we are leaving for Barcelona tonight!

You can easily imagine how stressed we are at the moment. It’s the first time we leave the continent, and now that we have done everything from packing to organising, we can only wait the flight leaving tonight, and the wait is excrutiating.

While we’re there, I intend to accomplish a few things, ranging from taking awesome picture with our new camera, to finding a new trinket for my necklace (my wife bought me one last Christmas, and I lost it).

We’re also doing a road trip, form Barcelona to Paris, where this endeavour will finish:


View Our Barcelona-Paris trip in a larger map

I’ve set up this blog to pick my Flickr pics, and videos posted under my Vimeo account there was a problem with the Vimeo feed, seems it doesn’t get picked up by Tumblr or something, at least mine doesn’t.

I’ve also reverted my Twitter scheme, so now Twitter posts here, instead of this blog posting to Twitter. So follow me from Tumblr instead!

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