Barcelona, Spain - 7th February 2013
By: SiniS
Hi people.
Today is “Dijous Gras”, the first day of Carnival festivities, and here in Catalonia is so typical to eat “butifarra d’ou” (egg sausage) and “coca de llardons” (crackling pancake). Here we are eating this!!!
It was delicious!!
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Posted Mar 30, 2013, 8:28 pm Last edited Mar 30, 2013, 8:30 pm by SiniS
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Barcelona, Spain - 13th February 2013
By: SiniS
Hi all!
Today is the last day of Carnival festivities and here in Catalonia this day is called “enterrament de la sardina” (burial of the sardine). About why is called this way, there are a hypothesis, among others. First of all, to bury something is a way to forget it, to take leave of it… And the hypothesis is that the back-bone of the pigs was known as “sardine” and it was buried at the end of Carnival to start the Lent.
To celebrate it, we have eaten a sardine made of bread with chocolate. It was delicious!!!!
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Posted Apr 4, 2013, 12:05 am
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Barcelona, Spain - 23rd February 2013
By: SiniS
Good morning!!!!
It’s snowing!!!! It’s sooooo strange in Barcelona!!!! As you can see, here it’s only raining, but, can you see the mountain behind me?
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Posted Apr 4, 2013, 12:17 pm
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Barcelona, Spain - 25th February 2013
By: SiniS
Hi!!
Today we went out for a walk and we went to the shopping center “La Maquinista”. “La Maquinista” is situated where the metallurgic fabric “La Maquinista Terrestre i Marítima” was in the past. Here you can see us taking a rest in front of the little park of “La Maquinista”.
This is the large pond, situated in the middle of the park, named Narcís Monturiol (a Catalonian engineer, who invented the first crew submarine). It was built in order to take advantage of the two nearby water sources and it’s used to irrigate the park. Inside the pond you can see the large antique wheel that reminds us of the industrial past of the land. And the building near the pond is “Museo de La Maquinista y Macosa”, a museum which contains historical documents, plans, photographs, models and historical objects from the old factory.
The shopping center!!!!
After visit some shops, we take a rest in a lounge terrace.
Can you see the big clock on the floor??? There was a projector which projected the small hands of the clock to show the hour, but it’s out of order
In the first floor there are the restaurants, near another lounge terrace.
It seems like a jungle!!!
Before come back home, we met Tom and Jerry, who drove us in their sidecar
We had a fun afternoon!
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Posted Apr 7, 2013, 1:15 pm
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Barcelona, Spain - 4th April 2013
By: SiniS
Hi people!
Today we went out for a walk and we found some interesting places during our walk.
This is “Plaça Jardins d’Elx”, where a Lady of Elche’s bust is situated.
And in the same square there’s “Parroquia de Crist Rei” a parish started built in 1924.
We continued walking and we found another church, but this is a quite strange church, “Iglèsia de Sant Joan Bosco”, inaugurated in 1974. When mom was a child, she thought it was a very big slide and she always wanted to slide for it. Poor mom!!!
In “Carrer Aragó” (Aragon Street), we found a sculpture dedicated to article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Later, we saw “La Farinera del Clot”, a cultural center situated in an old flour fabric in 1852.
And finally, we arrived to “Les Glòries” where we saw “Torre Agbar”, a tower which is the see of the water company of Barcelona (AGBAR = AGuas de BARcelona). At night it’s illuminated by thousands of colored lights.
It has been an interesting walk!
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Posted Apr 14, 2013, 2:15 pm Last edited Apr 16, 2013, 12:24 pm by SiniS
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Barcelona, Spain - 23rd April 2013
By: SiniS
Today is “Sant Jordi” (Saint George) and here in Catalonia is celebrated as lovers’ day and as books and roses day. It’s very typical to present a book to men and roses to women. And it’s so typical too to find a lot of little shops in the streets selling books and roses.
Here you can see me in front of one of these shops near home:
We have bought a book for hostdad about Barcelona and a rose for mom
And as surprise, we have eat a “Sant Jordi”’s cake, it’s delicious!!!
Feliç Sant Jordi!!!
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Posted May 24, 2013, 8:03 pm
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Viladrau, Spain - 1st May 2013
By: SiniS
Hi all!!!
Today we went to Viladrau!!! A little village very known for its mineral water and because a very famous brigand lived there: Serrallonga. It is situated beneath the massifs of the Guilleries and the Montseny, that’s the reason we saw so many green around us.
We arrived at the hotel, “Hostal La Glòria”.
And then, after leave all the bags and other things in our room, we went out for a walk. We asked about some routes and the people of the hotel gave us a map with a route named “El camí dels ponts perduts” (The lost bridges route) and who got lost were us! It was very funny And we discovered some beautiful places.
First, we found “La Font dels Enamorats”, (Lover’s fountain).
And soon, we found “La font de l’Oreneta” (Swallow’s fountain).
In our way, we found “La Riera Major”. This is one of its beautiful little waterfalls:
…And some meters later…
Then we arrived at “Mas els Molins”, an enormous house with a sun clock (although it’s a bit difficult to see the sun clock…)
And near there, in a path beside a field, we met catalan donkeys!!! They’re so beautiful, friendly and lovely!!!
We continued our walk and saw a big old tree. :O mum’s boyfriend is behind us!!! Hahaha!!!
Then, was when we got lost… We were a bit busy trying to find the way back to hotel… And we got it! We arrived at Viladrau again, (well, we were in Viladrau, I mean at the village). And we saw the city council…
… and “Capella de la Pietat”. It’s a chapel dated on 1603 and presided by Mare de Déu dels Dolors. At right of the photo, you can see Sant Domènech Savio, the youngest no martyr saint of the Catholic Church who wears jacket and bowtie. It’s curious…
Ufff!!! Finally we arrived at the hotel, we were so tired!!!! But it was a wonderful day Good night!!!
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Posted Jun 8, 2013, 10:10 pm Last edited Jun 8, 2013, 10:23 pm by SiniS
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Barcelona, Spain - 5th May 2013
By: SiniS
In Spain, Mother’s Day is celebrated the first Sunday of May, so…
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY MOM!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!
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Posted Jun 14, 2013, 11:49 am
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Barcelona, Spain - 1st June 2013
By: SiniS
Hello people!!!
Today we went to “Fira de Bellcaire”, also and more common known as “Els Encants Vells”.
“Els Encants Vells” is one of the oldest markets in Europe. Certain references date its origin in the fourteenth century, being a witness over commercial dynamism of our city, it’s more than just an antique market and peddling, orienting its centennial activity and apparent tentativeness to current demand, making available to the consumer an offer alternative to current models of distribution and trade, promoting the recycling. In this market you can found a lot of things, since new objects as clothes, fabrics, electrical equipment to second hand, used furniture, antiques, books and records…
The bad news is that this market will close in its actual place and it will be opened in another place. Most of people think that the market will lose its charm with this change.
We can find three parts in this market. This is one of the entries, where we can see some shops (one of the parts):
In another part of the market there are some stands:
And in the last part of the market, we find the objects on the floor, on a blanket or boxes…
Look!! We are near of “Plaça de les Glòries”, so we can see “Torre Agbar”, do you remember it?
We will miss this market. We’re waiting to see the new emplacement. Mom, can we come back here to visit it??
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Posted Jul 16, 2013, 5:40 pm
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