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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’ve just had a few weeks great holidays in Spain. We started off with a memorable concert in one of our favourite buildings in Barcelona - the Palau de la Música. Isabel and I were entertained by the wonderful Norah Jones. She has such an amazing voice and the band are an exceptionally good bunch [...]
Last weekend we had family visiting us; Isabel’s brother Juan, his wife Montse and their eight-year-old Daniel. We had a great weekend. Errr at least after Friday night when Juan, Dani and I made a trip to Ikea to get some wardrobes for Edmund’s bedroom. The flat packs just about squeezed [...]
23rd June was the midsummer fiesta in Barcelona (and presumably in the rest of Spain, but it’s a big one here). Saturday night saw fireworks spectaculars at the beach and all night verbanas with petardos until dawn. We spent the night down at the beach last year with Isabel’s brother, Juan and his Italian/Canadian friend [...]
This weekend has been the Festa Major (Fiesta Mayor) of the Eixample Dreta where we live. Our street, C/Girona, was closed to traffic along much of its length to allow market stalls and entertainment stands to be set up. The intention was to take the fiesta back to the period when the Eixample [...]
We were flying back to Barcelona from Gatwick last night and while we were waiting in departures we noticed that we seemed to be surrounded by Spanish football supporters complete with Osborne bull flags and blue and white Espanyol scarves and banners. They were a very happy bunch - a complete mixture of ages and sexes. [...]
We’re sitting in the middle of lots of boxes, and the painters haven’t finished everything yet, but we have actually moved. Fairly painlessly thanks to the very efficient (but expensive) removal team that arrived with a crane to take furniture out of the old flat. Unfortunately because the facade of the new flat is covered [...]
If it weren’t for the Barcelona number plate, I’d swear that this is my Uncle George on the Quad bike. We’ve seen a few of these in the city recently - I guess that they are easy to park!