After breakfast we headed to SlowMov for a coffee (well I had a coffee, Richard had a wander), my coffee was delicious, they roast their own beans. We then walked along part of the historic Gràcia walks to check out a possible lunch Tapas restaurant & then headed up the hill to the park we can see from our apartment, Park Güell. It’s uphill & three escalators have been installed (although one wasn’t working) which were welcome. The park is divided into a ticketed & non-ticketed sections, I tried yesterday to book tickets for today but they were all sold out. The park is 42 acres & designed by Gaudí. We walked all around the un-ticketed area, the park has great views across the city, the ticketed section of the park is undergoing extensive restoration, the trip advisor reviews say these are quite extensive & it’s not worth the price at the moment, we could see a large area of restoration. We really enjoyed our wander around the park, it had been forecast for rain today but it didn’t & we could see that spring had definitely sprung in Spain. We then headed back to Gracia & Tapeo, we arrived just after 1pm & there was nobody else there, infact we had the restaurant to ourselves most of the meal. We ordered a local dry white wine & tapas of sardines with lemon rind, steak tartare which had a bit of a kick to it, roasted lamb with a parsnip mash & pinenuts (not your traditional roast lamb) & a Catalan cream foam, which had burnt sugar on it. It was all delicious.
Julie Elvidge
87 chapters
16 Apr 2020
April 03, 2019
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Wednesday
After breakfast we headed to SlowMov for a coffee (well I had a coffee, Richard had a wander), my coffee was delicious, they roast their own beans. We then walked along part of the historic Gràcia walks to check out a possible lunch Tapas restaurant & then headed up the hill to the park we can see from our apartment, Park Güell. It’s uphill & three escalators have been installed (although one wasn’t working) which were welcome. The park is divided into a ticketed & non-ticketed sections, I tried yesterday to book tickets for today but they were all sold out. The park is 42 acres & designed by Gaudí. We walked all around the un-ticketed area, the park has great views across the city, the ticketed section of the park is undergoing extensive restoration, the trip advisor reviews say these are quite extensive & it’s not worth the price at the moment, we could see a large area of restoration. We really enjoyed our wander around the park, it had been forecast for rain today but it didn’t & we could see that spring had definitely sprung in Spain. We then headed back to Gracia & Tapeo, we arrived just after 1pm & there was nobody else there, infact we had the restaurant to ourselves most of the meal. We ordered a local dry white wine & tapas of sardines with lemon rind, steak tartare which had a bit of a kick to it, roasted lamb with a parsnip mash & pinenuts (not your traditional roast lamb) & a Catalan cream foam, which had burnt sugar on it. It was all delicious.
1.
Africa to Europe
2.
Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Lisbon
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Obrigado Lisbon, Ola Seville
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Seville
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Seville
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Seville
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Seville to Granada
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Granada
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Granada
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Granada to Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia (day trip to Cartagena)
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Murcia
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Murcia
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Murcia to Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Barcelona
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Gràcia Barcelona, bonjour Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Toulouse to Nice
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Nice
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Nice (day trip to Monaco)
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Nice
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Nice to Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon
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Lyon to Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon
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Dijon to Strasbourg
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Strasbourg
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Strasbourg
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Strasbourg (day trip Alsace)
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Strasbourg
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Strasbourg (lunch in Germany)
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Strasbourg to Caen
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Caen
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Caen
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Caen (day trip to Bayeux)
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Caen to Lille
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Lille
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Lille
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Lille
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Merci Lille, Hallo Oostende
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Oostende
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Oostende (day trip to Brugge)
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Oostende
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Dank u Oostende, hallo Amsterdam
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam
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Bedankt Amsterdam, hello North Sea
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Howay Newcastle & Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham
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Hexham to Northwich
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Northwich, Saltfleetby, Sheffield, Northwich, Windsor, Clifton, Northwich.
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Northwich to Dublin
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Dublin
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Dublin to Fermoy
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Fermoy & Cobh
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Fermoy to Farmers Bridge
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Farmers Bridge
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Farmers Bridge (day trip to Dingle Peninsula)
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Farmers Bridge to Kinvara
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Kinvara (day trip to the Cliffs of Moher)
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Kinvara to Dublin
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Dublin to Holyhead
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Northwich, Hexham, Hartlepool, Durham, Louth, Hexham.
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Grand Final 2019
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