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http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress Barcelona flat renovation in the Eixample Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:39:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/here-be-dragons/ 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 ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/flor-de-vid/ 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 ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/hells-angels/ I've just uploaded some more photos taken at the aquarium in La Coruña at the end of our holiday in Galicia here. http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/more-photos-from-galicia/ I've uploaded photos from this summer's holiday in Galicia with Edmund.  We stayed on a camping site with Isabel's brothers, their families and friends. The photos are here. http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/holiday-snaps-from-galicia-and-barcelona/ 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 ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/holidays/ 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 ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/great-things-about-living-in-barcelona/ 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, ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/noche-de-san-juan-and-wooden-fridges/ It's been almost a month since I last updated this blog, and what a month it has been.  We have been for a long (felt more like short) weekend to visit my parents in Insch in Scotland.  We managed to get direct flights from Barcelona to Aberdeen with flyGlobeSpan, but ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/no-more-builders/ 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 ... http://sweethomebarcelona.com/wordpress/2007/barcelona-eixample-dreta-festa-major/