After Thanksgiving, signing up for a month’s use of our apartment, and fighting off some unknown virus (a very small virus), Steve and I have started exploring again. Our apartment is in Sliema (near St. Julian’s, Paceville, and Ghadir on Balluta Bay). We are learning the bus routes and have traveled down to St. Julian’s…
We are all settled into our Sliema (pronounced Sleema) Malta apartment. It’s a couple blocks slightly uphill from Balluta Bay. It was overcast and drizzling when we arrived, but when we awoke the next morning, the sky was robin’s egg blue, the sea was deep blue, it was 68 degrees (a vast improvement over Spain), and…
Staying another few days to make sure we saw the inside of the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family, I believe) was such a good decision. We missed our first chance when we bought tickets to enter during a strike and found all entrances to the Sagrada closed due to a sit-in. Our accommodations noware not as…
We were more tired than we realized. So, yesterday we just visited a couple of the Gaudi apartment buildings on Paseig de Garcia, a short walk from our current apartment. Gaudi was so amazing. We took the tour of the Casa Batllo and we learned so much about him and his work. I had no idea…
Here are the promised Barcelona photos. Place de la Catalunya (for some reason this was black and white and I kind of like it) The Arch de Triumf (I didn’t know that there were more than one; perhaps they are everywhere in Europe) The view from Montjoic (the Mountain of the Jews) at the front…
We have been in Barcelona for several days now, since November 6. What a lovely city! I’ve taken lots of photos, but the wifi in this AirBnb (along with a few other things) is not good. It’s only a place to sleep, after all. So, I will have to upload photos when we get to…
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