Hello from Catalonia!
I’m here for a few days visiting friends and being a tourist.
This is my first time in Barcelona.
Have you visited?
It’s a lovely city.
And I think the winter is the best time: few tourists and warm, sunny days (although the locals are wearing their winter coats, hats and scarves!)
The New Way To Travel
In the old, old days, travel was dangerous.
You had to pray your ship didn’t run into a storm, or go in a caravan for protection against robbers.
Then, in the old days (pre-internet), things got easier with trains, planes and travel guides.
Now, with Bolt and Airbnb and Google Maps and credit cards, it’s super easy!
And, of course, everyone speaks English!
It seems most of your comments on the blog like this new way of traveling.
But have we lost the adventure?
I have a theory: Travel is about creating stories; and stories are made when things do NOT go as planned. (and technology does not help with this)
So how do we keep our amazing technology but have more adventures?
I’ve got an idea…
Hello from Athens, Greece…
Hello from Bucharest ,ROMANIA !
Cheers,
Gabriel
Create more interesting stories I guess is the answer to keep the adventure alive…
Yes, I have visited Barcelona and Salvador Dali museum in Girona. There are a lot of stories here about modern art and amazing things created by this two artists an .lovers Salvador and Gala.
Ryan enjoy in spanish food : tapas , paelja, sangria and beautiful building Sagrada Familia and park Guell . You have to visit flamenco dance. Iwas there three times and I want to go also once again..
Hello everyone,
Mr Vig, also and have a good adventure in Catalonia!
I was two times in Barcelona. Second time because of some conference.
But both trips were not in my organization.
Last year, for the first time, I organize everything for my trip in Roma, without agency, by myself. Also transportation by airplane, not only by booking, which I prefer.
Ofcourse, you have to have time for that and choose right original sites and apps for buying different tickets (not only for castles, museums, Colloseum, Vatikan..) because many sites sell tickets more exspensive then others (especialy for Italy and Spain, as I heard) and if you dont want to wait long order to buy tickets, if they are not sold.
I dont like groups, I like to see alone or with friends. I can read and find everything on Internet, if I want. I will also forget quickly something that I heard from a guide if I am not interesting, especially for unuseful details…Good way to get to know some city is also to enjoy just walking in the streets, drink and eat in cafes and retaurants or bars. Or go to open market😉…
My friend warn me about different sites and cheats but one site has good rating, 4.8, so I bought tickets on time for trasportation from/to airport by that site.
They sold tickets for the certain date and time. When we arrived, there was no buses by that company in the afternoon. Ok, we bought new tickets on the airport, diference in price was only 1 euro, but my friend said me to buy also that tickets on time.
While I was in Rome I try to write company who sold wrong tickets, to talk with AI, oh that was very interesting😈… They always write me to wait and do nothing, finished conversation without answer. They didnt answer on my mails.
When I came to home after my trip, I found sites where I wrote my experience and gave them bad ratings.
They answered nicely immediately on that site, gave me back my money but they still didnt answered on my mails o write me any mail that they wrote on that site😁.
Still, I like it, my trip and experience..So, it is nice, cheaper, modern and new good way to go on some trip but you have to take care about many things.
Good night!
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I think it’s an adventurous time when you meet people you’ve never met before and it’s your first time traveling with them, because everyone grows up with a different culture and way of thinking, and you have to be prepared for strange things.
I look forward to your ideas, because I can’t think of any ideas at the moment.
Hi, you definitely have a great experiences in Barcelona. Buildings by Gaudi are amazing. I have visited Spain twice. But I was on sommer vacation in Marbella and Nerja town. I traveled with travel agency, whu aranged everything like a hotel and airline tickets. But last 4 years I go on vacation alone trouhgt web site Booking and by cár. In apartment we are cook or go to restaurant.