61 posts tagged “barcelona”
Dinner and fireworks @ the Barcelona port. Tomorrow is a bank holiday (La Mercè).
At the Barcelona airport earlier today.
Tourists feeding our "flying rats" at Plaça Catalunya.
If you like ball-point pens, fountain pens and stuff like that, you should visit Casa de la Estilográfica near Plaza Urquinaona, Barcelona. But remember to take your Visa with you! The most expensive pen I saw costs around 3.000 EUR. (But a pencil only costs around 1.000 EUR, so thou shall worry not!)
More info on their website: www.casadelaestilografica.com (in Spanish).
It's been several weeks since I last updated this blog (But wait, I have a good excuse! It's not my fault!). An Irish friend of mine (not his fault either!) commented a couple of weeks ago: "Hm... Kafka has been a little bit quiet lately..." What could I say? Yes, I know... But the thing is that it's a little bit difficult to update your mobile blog - if you don't have a mobile phone!
Now they are finally fixing it (I think), and I finally have another phone that I can use, with more or less the same features as the previous one - no WiFi on this one, though, so I'll have to pay for the terribly expensive WAP connection (mobile services in Spain are approximately 3 times more expensive than in other EU countries). But, hey, we only live once, so... who cares!
I would like to post a couple of vids from Finland, but right now I can't, so I'm attaching this memorable photo instead (it's memorable because it's the last one I took with my mobile phone before it died) - and this is not from Finland, it's from my street in Barcelona.
Street artists, La Rambla, Barcelona
They say
that the only "real" spring fair is held in Seville, but we do have our own feria de
abril here in Barcelona as well. It's probably not as big as the
Seville Spring Fair, but well worth seeing. (I went to see it last night.)
Links:
- The Barcelona Spring Fair at www.bcn.es (English)
- The Seville Spring Fair in Wikipedia (English)
-
Feria de Abril en Wikipedia (castellano)
It was Sant Jordi (St. George's Day) here in Catalonia on Monday, so I went to the (Barcelona) city center to see some books. This day is also known as el Dia del Llibre (literally "the Day of the Book"), so, it's when everybody goes to the city center to buy some books... This, of course, means that you cannot really do or see anything; the streets are so full that you can hardly walk. But it's well worth seeing anyway.
This year, I only bought two books (I usually buy at least 4 or 5, because they give good discounts on St George's Day):
- Cosmofobia by Lucía Etxebarria (in Spanish)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
I also found an English bookstore, which is nice, because it's sometimes difficult to find good English/American/Irish literature here, except for the top 5 best sellers perhaps. Now I know where to go when I'm looking for something interesting to read in English.
Links:
- Sant Jordi in Wikipedia
- St. George's Day in Wikipedia
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in Wikipedia
- Lucía Etxebarria in Wikipedia (English)
- Lucía Etxebarria en Wikipedia (español)
English bookstore in :
Come In - Llibreria Anglesa de Barcelona, Balmes, 129 bis., 08008 Barcelona
One of my favorite shopping centers in Barcelona:
