Category: Spain

As much as we loved Valencia – today was the day we had chosen to move on, so good-bye beautiful apartment on a beautiful street, goodbye the best oranges I have ever eaten, good-bye Central Market 3 minutes away that we love-love, goodbye to turning a corner and losing your breath because there was another…

The Valencians are telling us it is very cold today…record…coldest day of the year. 10 degrees. Stay inside. Not a chance – we have many things we want to see. We bundled up in layers and to be honest it was like a lovely spring day for us. We headed out. We didn’t get enough…

Before we left Canada we bought a two month unlimited Eurorail train pass. I love European train travel. The stations are always in the middle of the city and easy to get to by metro or walking. You don’t have to arrive 3 hours ahead – and you get to see the countryside on your…

Bright and early this morning we took the metro to meet a guide to take us to Montserrat – a multi peaked mountain range about an hour out of Barcelona. Montserrat literally means serrated in Catalan (the region Barcelona is in) and that accurately describes the rock formations that make up the mountains These mountains…

What an impressive title! Sounds like I’m pretty comfortable with Spanish, doesn’t it? Nope. In fact the language barrier is tougher than I thought. Most people we’ve encountered speak no English. The young waiters in the restaurants may have a wee bit but most residents or shop keepers have none. But why would they? We…

My first impressions of Barcelona – it’s beautiful and it’s busy. The architecture is different than anything I’ve seen anywhere. The Sagrada Familia cathedral is right across the street from us and it takes my breath away every time I step out the door and look up. We bought Sagrada tickets and are doing an…