We picked up a hire car on Friday aftenoon and headed off to Mas de Torrent as a surprise treat for Isabel (and me). Words can only fail to describe what a truely wonderful place this is. Five star luxury in a beautiful country masÃa about 90 minutes drive from Barcelona. It’s [...]
As usual we were a pair of sad b…..s and didn’t make it to the carnaval on Sunday. We wimped out in the end due to the last train back from Sitges being at 22:30. If we didn’t have work the next day we get have caught the 4:00am train back, but there you go…
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We had planned to go to the carnaval in Sitges today, but the weather is so awful. It’s been raining all day, so we’ve just stayed in - we’re planning to go tomorrow if the rain lifts. Isabel has spent the afternoon updating the content of our main website Sweet Home Barcelona with the latest [...]
I was in London last week to do some work and had one day of hell commuting. There was about one inch of snow when I woke up on Thursday morning. Not that much, really considering the weather forecasters had predicted the haviest snow fall for seven years the previous night. Anyway, I walked to [...]
We needed to get some doors for our flat renovations, so on Saturday we decided (on Ester’s recommendation) to go out past Gerona to a small Catalan town called La Bisbal D’Empordá. We’ve been there before when it was Isabel’s birthday last year and we stayed in the rather posh hotel Castell d’Empordá - which [...]