Sunday, October 4, 2009

Felíz cumpleaños a mí padre

Happy birthday to my Dad! It´s only 6am back home, so I´m hoping I´m the first one to wish him a happy day.

Alright. So. Some problems solved, others arise. I have access to my pics now, but the new problem is uploading them all at once. I will figure this out eventually, so just bear with me until then. I know people are anxious to see pics, though, so I´ll share some now.


I think my favorite BCN tradition so far is breakfast. No big breakfasts of bacon and eggs or french toast here. No, instead it´s café con leche y pasta chocolaté. I could get used to this. :-)



Yesterday I mentioned that I´d taken a ton of pictures of doorways and narrow streets. Here are just some of them.


Since I spent so much time in the Gothic Neighborhood yesterday, I have to share some examples of that, too.



And also, since I was so taken aback by the fact that I got to see actual Roman ruins, here´s a shot of a Roman wall; it was part of early Barcelona´s defense system.
That should do it for now. I´ll post a link to the full set as soon as I figure out how to do it. And if the post ends up all sorts of discombobulated with the pics - I apologize. I´m still not very good at the formatting aspect of this.

7 comments:

  1. That looks like my kind of breakfast. I wish I could sit down and have breakfast with you right now. The pics are cool.

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  2. Thanks for the birthday wishes and remember, you need to deliver the next one in person!

    Pictures are great, can't wait to see more.

    If you're at a place where you take a lot of pictures, it'd be cool to sent a Spot message from there and we may be able to go to Street View on Google maps and act like we're with you :-)

    ly,

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  3. Pictures are wonderful, I can picture you walking down these streets/alleys. Look forward to many more. Love

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  4. I'm glad you got the camera situation worked out. I love the last one. I'm sorry to hear about the phone. How frustrating.

    How did you not know there were Romans in Spain? Hell there were Romans everywhere! :)

    I'm also happy to hear what a great experience you're having with your host. He sounds nice and that's majorly important. How long are you staying in Barcelona?

    Keep us up. Can't wait to hear more.

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  5. Dad - I´ll try to remember to send SPOT messages at the same time I´m taking a lot of pictures. :-)

    V - I think I´ve decided that I will leave for Prague in a week, Monday the 12th. I thought about stopping over in Zurich for a hot second, but it´s going to be prohibitively expensive to get there.

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  6. It's probably difficult to try to narrow it down now that you're there and getting the hang of things. Will you travel over land?

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  7. No, I will fly to Prague. I found a good price online. . .which is, hopefully, still there when I actually get around to buying the ticket. :-)

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