Tag: Barcelona
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Europe 31 & 32 – Full Stop, The End
And they all lived happily ever after. Audio: Emirates in flight announcement, in Arabic
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Europe 30 – Mr Nicholas Changes Trains
Yeah, look, there’s only one train in this story, but if you thought I was not going to follow up the Isherwood reference of a couple of days ago with another (on the flimsiest of bases) then you have badly overestimated my creativity (or underestimated my laziness). Nor is it much of a story, frankly.…
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Europe 4 – Llibertat
Plans to take the boys to the Tibidabo fun park come immediately undone as the damn place doesn’t open until tomorrow. After some googling for alternatives, I am set free to wander the streets of Barcelona without either of Messrs Let or Hindrance, nor wife neither. My day off. I stopped to open the hotel…
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Europe 3 – Knackered
Seeing the city you’re visiting had to be better than hurtling through a black tube, right? Right, so let’s make the kids walk a couple of kilometres first thing. Ooh look, Gaudí. Queue to see inside though, so nah. Repeat. Audio: Calle de la Libretaria, Barcelona In the meantime, we discover things. Every hundred metres…