Chekie PaMa Fabulous Holiday 2011: Barcelona (19 - 21 July)

The flight from Berlin to Barcelona was 8.55am, therefore we ordered a taxi to take us from the hotel to Barcelona. Stunning enough it was a lady taxi driver who came picking up at 5ish in the morning. Although she couldn’t speak much English, I felt that she is a nice lady.

After checking in, first thing first was to let my parents ‘eat’, especially my dad. As usual, mom was good enough in helping me to save money, they both had the pot noodles (mom brought them from Malaysia), and I was just having a very thick espresso. I was knackered as not sleeping that well in the Berlin hotel.

We arrived in Barcelona at late morning. And yet again, we took cab from Barcelona airport to Hotel Evenia Rocafort. It was a lovely hotel. Click here for my review to the hotel. I specially giving my appreciation to one of the receptionist, unfortunately I don’t know his name. He was giving me a great hand in helping me to transfer my pictures from my memory stick to the external HD. Most probably there was an issue with my old HD, the transfer just won’t work. Still, big thanks to him. He then directed me to one of the gadget shop just down the road so I can get a new memory stick. Still I didn’t get one until the next day in another shop. Lol.

Caught mom was sleeping while I was busy doing my transfer..

The receptionist reckoned us to walk to the sights instead of taking public transport. Dad was first opened his mouth and told the receptionist that he is old and couldn’t walk that much. The receptionist then asked how old is my dad. My dad said he is 56, and the receptionist said, you don’t consider yourself old in mid fifties. It is like a slap on my dad’s face, then he stopped to complain so much about walking. Of course, both my parents are physically fit.

Stopping for some cakes

Somewhere near the university

Stopping at the Plaça de Catalunya, which is one of the busiest square in Barcelona

Me chasing the pigeons, but the pigeons seemed like very calm..Maybe I am over reacted…lol

La Ramble street.. busiest street in Barcelona, selling all sorts..

Quite a nice art piece

Somewhere near Santa Maria del Mar

A bloke was showing his balloon tricks to the kids near Santa Maria del Mar

Then we stopped by some shops and did some shopping. I got a sling bag in only 4 euros..haha..although it is a ‘Made in China’

After all, we decided to keep walking around, looking at the city and people, with no clear direction in mind. We didn’t have GPS, all we had is a paper map we took from the hotel. As we walked along, we realised that we were not long to Port Vell area. So we kept walking…

Arriving at Port Vell

Me and my dad jiggling

One of my favourite picture near Port Vell


Walking towards the Columbus Monument

Wondering what mom and dad were watching…

Time for some dinner and heading back to La Ramble street..Absolutely love the art piece

Dad wanted Chinese food again…grrr…

One of the famous fruit market in Barcelona

There is a Carrefour supermarket in La Rambla street. So if you are in a budget trip, you can get food and necessities there. We bought some bread, buns and of course still water. Not sure why, I felt that the still water tasted better than the tap water.

Found a Chinese shop in our way back to the hotel. Dad bought some pot noodles for our breakfast next morning. Please note that you have to pay extra for breakfast in most of the hotels in Barcelona..

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To be continued..