Before I start with Barcelona I need to tell you something I forgot. Remember I said Egypt was unsafe, well it really is, we had to travel in a convoy with our buses, about 19 buses all told and each one had an armed guard inside and a police escort at front and back of the convoy. All just to protect us from the locals.... That place is a nightmare!! Do not travel in Egypt alone, always go on a tour, it is really bad for safety....... really bad!!
Okay, now to Barcelona. I spent all day yesterday, or most of it, on a hop on hop off tour, it was brilliant. I barely got off the thing. Barcelona is beautiful, maybe the nicest city I have visited, though Bordeaux was lovely too. I met a young American girl in a cafe and we started chatting, she asked if she could join me on the hop on hop off, so she did. We had a lovely morning seeing all the sites before she headed for her hotel. So big hello to Laurie from San Fransisco!! I then proceeded to do all 3 routes in the one day. I wanted to see what the place had to offer, but by the end of it I was buggered. The early morning (4am) and the sun (top open deck) really did me in. I was nodding off at the end, and no Ally it wasn't from culture fatigue!!
The place is lovely, the architecture is amazing, all old and modern mixed in together, but somehow it works. I really like it here, although I am having trouble with the language, my English words with Spanish accent does not appear to be working and very few of them speak English. Bugger!! I shall have to get out the phrase book...
One of the unusual buildings
Another one
One of the lovely old ones, I love old buildings..
Another old masterpiece. I saw some really lovely ones, but not quick enough with the camera, as the bus zoomed past!!
Some of the street artists/buskers. You take their picture, either with you or by themselves, and you pay them money, unless your cheap like me!!
Another busker... pretty awesome for little boys to be photographed with, he puts his wings around them, they loved it..
Just one of the fabulous squares they have here
Barcelona has lovely wide streets and also lovely narrow twisting ones, some too narrow for cars to use. It is a lovely place to walk around.
Today I went shopping, looking for the elusive bull charm. Well I must have searched almost every shop in the Rambla area with no luck. I finally found a little shop that had a flat bull, I really do like my charms to be 3 dimensional, so wasn't happy with it, but afraid I might not find another one, so I brought it. I did not want to go another 30 years before finding the silly thing. As I was walking back to the La Catalunya square, I saw another little shop and you guessed it, he had my little bull, all 3 dimensional and everything..... shit!! He also had a lovely 3 dimensional flamenco dancer... I um'd and ar'd, but brought the bull. He is perfect and I shall just use the other one for my scrapbooking, after all he is flat enough!! The flamenco dancer was beautiful, but I only buy one charm for each country and now my braclet is complete for the countries I have been, well excluding Bali, I never even thought to buy one there. I wonder why? Kearie is starting her own braclet, but she buys one for each town she visits, she is going to have one huge braclet when she is my age, if she keeps travelling. I started mine when I did a cruise around the island and New Zealand about 32 years ago and it is pretty full already....
I am having a quiet night, catching up on my emails and relaxing. I have no plans for tomorrow yet, but I would like to purchase a Spanish fan before I leave, I have seen some lovely ones here.
Cheers for now
Lones
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