Barcelona city is usually the destination of my flight to Spain. I'm always tired and the hours changed by the time difference with Australia, and take the room to relax, let my habits in Australia, and get my English habits. And I am a person who, wherever I go, I can not help the site adapt and change.
also have differing perceptions Barcelona for English and foreign tourists. For the English tourists, Barcelona is the cosmopolitan European city, resolutely European. For foreign tourists, Barcelona is the city that, while in Spain, offers both atmosphere, beer, wine and tapas. And in some ways these two aspects appear to me to me when I visit. The way I see when I come from Australia, and in another way when I leave after visiting Spain.
The most recent trip I visited Barcelona in Spain after an absence of two or three years. It was a long journey of Australia to Singapore
, and from there to Barcelona. The occasion, to visit relatives during the Christmas holidays and New Year. Barcelona are Celia and Manolo, and close to Alex and Mercedes. Greetings to all and thanks for welcoming me! We were able to talk, play with Alexander and Natalia to football and other things. Anyway, the topic of this post are my impressions of Barcelona as a city.
During the first days and even with my Australian prism, Barcelona seems to me cold city, it's winter and I come from the Australian summer. I brought warm clothes of all kinds, but the cold is no match with Barcelona clothes, but getting used to it. For many clothes that you get, the cold comes in and can not be avoided. Not so much the cold moisture cove. I do not complain that there's more moisture in Gandia, which I will discuss in another entry in this blog.
Barcelona has many tourist attractions, but do not usually change much over time, so this trip does not do the tour. Nor do the tour of bars and restaurants, that is not Mineko this time I like going out. Just walk around the city. And that's when you realize it's a city like all cities, noisy and impossible traffic, while actually walking the streets is exposed to acoustic and olfactory assaults by traffic noise and pollution. Accustomed to the quiet of the suburbs of Sydney, this bustle makes me nervous. To escape noise visit an art gallery among the many items there, or go into one of its many bars and restaurants that have their noise but is more pleasant. And the food, as expected, very cheap and very good compared to what you eat in Sydney. One thing I love about Spain is that almost every bar and restaurant serves surprisingly good food for the price. It is certainly not as cheap as in Singapore, and the truth is I do not know what to say if it's good. English food is so different from the Asian can not compare, simply enjoy each one separately.
Several weeks later, back to Australia and after visiting the families of Gandia, to Barcelona again. After several weeks of vacation and happiness, it's been so long since we see it, family!, Barcelona is not as cool or as loud. Perhaps because there is still room rental, or because my mind is more relaxed, I know, the city becomes more hospitable. Take this opportunity to make last-minute shopping, things I want to buy in Spain as gifts for the people of Australia, and for me a box of saffron, which is cheaper than in Australia and do not weigh anything. I find saffron spice shop in the old town. And that is when I rediscover the charm of Old Town with its ancient buildings and narrow streets. As old does not exist in any city of Sydney, and I see them in centuries past, trying to imagine how people live on these streets then. Barcelona
goodbye to me with a most unusual image of a frozen Tibidabo.
Barcelona, \u200b\u200bpoint of entry and exit from Spain, before and now.
