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Prologue: Tribute to the SWC South Africa 2010!D-Day: A beginning Eastfield to Istandbul: Grumpyness at 30000ft Turkish shuttle Istanbul by day Istanbul by night Long walk to freedom Lisbon walking tour Discovering Lisbon Exploring Sintra Fado’s night out The rain in Spain falls mainly on my brain A day in medieval Toledo Madrid on a Sunday Flamenco por una buena causa To Barcelona Barcelona! Barcelona!Gaudi in the morning Olympic in the afternoon Chilling in Barcelona La Rambla To Nice A Nice night Relax, take it Eze Monaco in an afternoon Chilling in Nice To Venice Our first day in Venice The attempt at Venice night photos The second day in Venice The last night in Venice The Farewell Frenzy in Firenze Exploring Florence Conquering the Dome Conquering the Torra Lucca, I am your father Picnic in Pisa A day in Pisa When in Rome…Ancient scorching Rome Welcome to Naples (and its crazy traffic)A day in Capri Ancient scorching Pompeii To Santa Fortunata Chilling in Sorrento Back to Rome Aida and the catacombs The Vatican in a flash The End

jnroux

Western Europe 2010

Olympic in the afternoon

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Jun 29 2010, 03:51 PM

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jnroux
Somerset West, South Africa

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Barcelona, Spain

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Before we could feel Olympic Riana and I took the Metro to Barceloneta station and walked to Saint Sebastian beach for a siesta between 2:00 and 4:00. There were a lot of people, but nothing active happening like soccer or touchies (I wish). The most active thing people did was to take their clothes off and to later put it back on again (if they felt like it). Tanning topless may sound like a lot of fun, but there are a lot of scary woman that you have to avoid to not be scarred for life! After the siesta we linked up with Janno and my parents and we took the metro and then the funicular (basically an automated metro that travels upwards) to go up Montjuic. The funicular leaves every 10 minutes and we would have just missed it if it was not for two German guys who held the doors open for us (Janno could at least thank them in German for us). After we were taken half way up the mountain by the funicular, we took a cable car to reach the castle/ford at the top of the mountain. From the top we had a beautiful 360 view of Barcelona and the modern harbour. We took the cable cars down again and went to the Olympic stadium. Luckily for the egos of the Olympic walkers they were not practicing, since they would have been found wanting against the top fit walkers in my company. Finally we took the funicular down again and took the Metro back home. Riana made us some delicious spaghetti-bolognaise which we enjoyed with some white wine. We also had mini magnums for desert (tnx Janno!).

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