| | first day of exploring barcelonaI woke up early (as okusan would say, "buttcrack of sunlight") in search of markets and anything interesting. to my dsappointent, barcelona is just like most other european countries...shops close on sundays...most. I guess that's an improvement from swiss ( closes at 6pm weekdays and don't even bother on sundays).
just for a little change, I took up a 4-hour bicycle tour starting from jaume I around the city center, stopping briefly at barceloneta beach~it was amazing!
despite my supposid expertise with a bicycle after so many years in davis, I was not used to riding THEIR bicycles on the ROAD with the traffic. I got honked quite a few times...some guy screaming something in spanish to me...other than that, it was a fun ride~
thanks to the guide, he reminded me that barcelona held the 1992 olympics~ and gave me a lot of useful info for my dissertation...so instead of having a relaxing vacation...i'm back on dissertation mode!
tomorrow, I will try to find some markets to invade, and then i'll go to the olympic museum for further research (NERRDDY! YES I KNOW)
btw, i'll try to get some pix uploaded when I get back~as usual, won't see much pix of me but scenaries and anything worth noting... |
| | Posted 10/1/2007 5:23 AM - 0 comments
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