Viaje a Espana – Coming Soon!

I have an upcoming trip to Spain coming up, March 21 through March 29th. I hope to live blog while touring the country. I do not want to blow out my data usage but I want to blog my experiences. I may actually blog it first at my LiveJournal site and then copy/paste and modify over here after that initial post.

I will have a brand new Canon Rebel to use in my journeys so I am uber excited!!!

My (tentative) Itinerary is as follows:

1. Saturday March 21, 2015, departure from Ohio en-route to Madrid
2. Sunday March 22, 2015 Arrival Madrid, Spain
   1. Visit Palacio Real  & Garden – The Royal Palace
   2. Visit Plaza Mayor
   3. Puerta del Sol/shop
   4. Free time
   5. Dinner
3. Monday March 23, 2015 – Madrid –
   1. Visit The Prado Museum (Art)
   2. Visit The Retiro Park; Crystal Palace, The Alfonso XII Monument
   3. Visit Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas (Largest Bullring in Spain)
   4. Visit Taurino Museum
   5. Shopping/Free time in Cheuca area
   6. Dinner
4. Tuesday March 24, 2015 – Excursion to Toledo
   1. Visit Sword Maker
   2. Local guide provided to tour Cathedral de Toledo
   3. Visit The Church of Santo Tome – Which houses El Greco’s Burial of Count Orgaz
   4. Free time
   5. Dinner/Return to Madrid
5.  Wednesday March 25, 2015 – Ave Train to Valencia
   1. Walking tour (with guide) of Valencia
      1. Barrio del Carmen
      2. The Cathedral (said to house the Holy Grail Chalice)
      3. Free time
      4. Dinner
6. Thursday March 26, 2015 – Valencia
   1. Mercado Central
   2. The Science Museum
   3. I’Oceanografic (World’s Largest Marine Park)
   4. Dinner/free time/night life
7. Friday March 27, 2015 – Bus to Montserrat
   1. Renaissance Basilica (houses La Moreneta)
      1.  Bus to Barcelona in afternoon
      2. Visit La Ramblas/Free time
      3. Dinner/night life
      4. Monumento a Colon (Christopher Columbus monument at the end of La Ramblas)
8. Saturday March 28, 2015 – Barcelona
   1. Visit Parc Guell (Gaudi)
   2. Visit Barrio Gotica (guided) and enter Cathedral
   3. Visit Sagrada Familia (Sacred Family) Cathedral (audio guide)
   4. Free time (I plan on going to El Camp Nou – Home of FC Barcelona – Futbol Club)
   5. Dinner and a flamenco show/night life
9. Saturday March 28, 2015 Return Home
   1. Depart from Barcelona arrival late evening

Ireland – Dublin – 2012 – Day 5

Today we slept in. We ate late and there barely any bread left in the dining room. Mom did not like today’s waitress. She was a bit older and rather abrupt. She messed up mom’s order and acted a bit odd. Since we had nothing in particular to do we just sat in the lobby and relaxed. I know Chelsea wasn’t fond of this idea but we did an awful lot of walking yesterday and it was nice to just relax and not have an agenda. After a while we went up and they took showers and I napped. Mom keeps me awake most nights so i have to get some rest when I can. Around 1:30 I took a shower and Chelsea was content for the most part since she had Internet. We finally left the hotel and just meandered the streets which I love to do. We ended up grabbing a bit to eat at a deli not too far from the hotel off Nassau St. Fr. There we decided to go find the Hard Rock Cafe and The Temple Bar. Both are in the same vicinity. The Hard Rock wasn’t hard to find really. It wasn’t packed at all,which sorta shocked me, normally they are busy. It was somewhat busy upstairs though we went down stairs since we weren’t eating. We chose a booth and I got mom and I a hurricane glass ($38). Chelsea didn’t want one. We took pics and sat there for a bit and the. Took pictures outside of it and moved on down the street to find the Temple Bar. 
We stopped outside a little plaza where the people were packed into the bar. Ireland’s own Katie Taylor, a light weight boxer was boxing for the gold. I stopped videoed that and shared in the unique moment. The crowd was so thrilled when she won. We then continued down the street and found the famous Temple Bar. Red façade and gold lettering with baskets of pretty flowers outside. You could hear the music I side. We went in and stood for awhile and enjoyed the place. As to be expected it was quite busy. After that we walked to the Liffery River and the bridges that cross it. We wandered a bit more then headed back to the hotel.

So, this evening or rather late lat night I discovered pictures were issuing from the camera. I saw them as I took them and reviewed them even but ow they are gone! All of this pics from this smaller Nikon camera I brought are gone. I took some outside of Titanic Belfast but mostly inside I took with the smaller one. Some on the iPhone and chelsea took hardly any. So I’ve been pissed about that all day. 😦
We are watching the Olympics so adios. Lol