Archive for September, 2007

Here be Dragons

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

This weekend has been La Mercé the fiesta mayor of Barcelona City. Loads of free entertainment throughout the city for 3/4 days. It kicked of in front of the City Hall (the Ayuntamiento) on Friday night with a procession of “devils” dancing very much like something out of “Where the Wild Things Are” [...]

Flor de Vid

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

I was glancing through Margarita Puig’s book “Restaurantes de Barcelona donde nunca te han llevado” (Barcelona restaurants where they’ve never taken you to” and came across a good write-up for the Flor de Vid restaurant.  As it’s “just up the road” (two blocks) from us and we’ve never been there before we thought we’d give [...]

Hells angels

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Rob and Mike called in for a few days on their latest motorbike tour of Europe.  We had good evenings out and didn’t talk too much about work while they were here.  With Mike’s GPS they impressively found their way to our door without directions (the one way system can be a bit of a [...]

More photos from Galicia

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I’ve just uploaded some more photos taken at the aquarium in La Coruña at the end of our holiday in Galicia here.