Barcelona is such a beautiful and fascinating city that you may think we're daft to suggest you leave it for a day trip . Well, we are a bit daft, but you should not get this close to the Dali Museum and not see it. It is literally unlike any other museum. Not only because of its contents but because Dali did not allow it to be catalogued or arranged in any logical fashion - … [Read more...]
3 free fun things to do in Barcelona
Barcelona is the favorite city of both Blonde and Brunette and one reason is that, although there's no shortage of interesting places with high admission fees, there is also a good selection of free (and legal) things to do. The nightly music and light shows at The Magic Fountains top our list of attractions. On our last visit to Barcelona we stayed in the Sants-Montjuïc … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life
We haven't participated in a weekly photo challenge in a while but this topic was intriguing. We don't do a lot of street scenes because we aren't very good at getting them (we're looking for our cameras and the whole thing is already over) and we're more likely to be in settings such as beaches, deserts, glaciers and gardens that don't have street life. But in thinking about … [Read more...]
Capture the Color Photo Essay Contest
For a change we will try to leave the speaking (primarily) to the photographs: White: We were visiting Turkey but had no plan to see whirling dervishes. We thought they would just be cheesy shows put on for tourists. But our guide took us to an evening show at a caravanserai outside Cappadocia. There was nothing cheesy or fake in any way as we watched in fascination as … [Read more...]
This week’s Twitter #FriFotos Theme is Curves – turns out there are a lot of them!
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Barcelona – Our recommendations on things to do and things to skip
[slideshow]Going to Barcelona is probably equivalent to a straight man meeting a beautiful young woman who just read the Kama Sutra and wants to try everything she learned - a veritable orgy of delights! But, alas, the man and the woman and you and Barcelona both probably have time constraints so our goal (beyond torturing this metaphor) is to give you a list of suggestions … [Read more...]
NASCAR here we don’t come!
[slideshow]Prior to our recent trip to Barcelona Blonde and Brunette decided to line up some activities that would be both enjoyable to do and fun for our readers to hear about. This post is about one that did not fall into the "enjoyable to do" category so we hope it at least qualifies for the "fun to hear about" one. Using Viator we booked the Barcelona Guided GPS Go-Car … [Read more...]
Dicking around in Barcelona
[slideshow]Barcelona is known by many as a culinary gem, a design hub or the center of the perpetual Catalan tantrum about being a part of Spain. However, as your trusted sources for very little useful information Blonde and Brunette are at least bringing our readers the truth about Barcelona: Barcelona is a dick. Here are our experiences which led to this conclusion: A … [Read more...]