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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve added the first couple of streets to our list of Barcelona streets. These are: C/Caspe and C/Gerona. I chose these to start with because they are the streets that we have lived in.
I’ve started a new page on where the street names of Barcelona come from. It draws on the existing street name dictionary available on the Ayuntamiento’s web site. Click on our blog page to see what’s there.