There were quite a few weird and wacky things we saw in Barcelona, so I thought I should set aside one of the blogs just for them. First up, Casa Batlo, designed and built by Gaudi for the Batllo family ( a successful textile industrialist) in 1906 on Passage de Gracia, which was in its day the prestigious street to live. The house carries a distinctive "sea life" theme, both real and mythical, as it was designed around the time of Jules Verne's book 20,000 ...

We had a good couple of days seeing some of the special sites in Barcelona.had a great afternoon at the beach, took a dip, sipped a few Caipiroskas and soaked up the beach atmosphere in Barcelona. Shirley and I walked the famous La Ramblas in amongst thousands of others and set about discovering the old gothic city centre, which was just fascinating. It's a couple of sqr Kim's of narrow cobblestone streets filled with shops, cafes, bars restaurants and t...

I thought I'd change tact a little with this blog and rather than a chronology, tackle it in 3 unique parts.As you know we are making this trip up as we go and so we book accommodation on the fly, mostly using AirBnb, which has been good. So in Bordeaux, we requested a booking in Barcelona but hadn't heard anything before we had to jump on the train to head there. No big deal, plenty of time, after all its a 7hr journey.  You already know what's com...