Granada is very hot!!

Hee, instead of Barcelona part 2, we are moving ahead to talk about the last leg of our trip, Granada. We are staying at a really charming B&B called Casa del Aljarife. The room is huge and the toilet is a separate room on its own! I think our previous hotel rooms were the size of this toilet! Btw, the temperature here is HOT! Today´s 41 degrees... you thought Singapore´s hot but here´s hotter! Okie.. gotta go first cos someone needs to use the internet.. try to update again later!

The top left corner shows our room, it has two plush arm chairs we just plonk down at the end of the day and stare out to the Alhambra. In case you din know, pple flock to Granada to see the Alhambra. It's a fascinating and really beautiful place. At the bottom of the pic you see the entrance to the room which we have to walk a short flight of steps to reach. On the right, you see the courtyard where we have our breakfast every morning. The owner of the B&B always greets us with a "Good Morn......ing" when we go down for breakfast =)

On the top left, you can see the view out of one of the windows. The brownish red tower is part of the Alhambra. At the bottom and right, you can see how big our toilet is!

Really really had a great time at the B&B and we have to thank our host, Christian Most, for being so hospitable and friendly. He's a German that has been living in Granada for the past 12 years. He shared with us that he studied in Granada for a year in his younger days and then came back, bought the place, set up the B&B and has been living in Granada since.

City of Barcelona - Part 1

It is 1am in Barcelona now and Em is soundly asleep. Since there is nothing much to do and I am not really sleepy, I decide to blog about our stay in Barcelona so far. This is our 3rd day here and we have 1 more day to go before we move on to Madrid. To all the soccer fanatics, it should sound familiar to you as it is where the famous club Real Madrid FC is. Anyway, let me tell you more about Barcelona first.

1st Day
The moment we reached our hotel at Barcelona, Em suggested that we go and try out authentic spanish food. The hotel reception recommended us to this particular bar and we tried out the "Tapas". I tell you it was YUMMY!!

2nd Day
For breakfast, we dropped by this cafe near our hotel. This is what we had for our morning breakfast =)


For the rest of the day, we went around exploring the city of Barcelona and these are some of the highlights.

Sagrada Familia
This is my favourite so far. A massive Roman Catholic church that is still under construction since 1882!! It is designed by Antoni Gaudi, a famous Catalan architect. This building is truly a masterpiece. Just look at the picture and you will understand.

Nou Camp Stadium
Our next stop is the home ground of FC Barcelona, the Nou Camp stadium that can accomodate about 100,000 spectators. Both Em and I are definitely not a big fan of Barcelona but I was thinking how can we miss out on the biggest stadium in Europe when we are in Spain. As a result, we decided to pay a visit. Hehee.. I wanted to take photo with the Champions League trophy but it turns out that we need to pay if we want to. Smart way to make money I must say!!


After the stadium, we went to a few more tourist attractions. It was tiring but enjoyable to see new things. I guess both Em and I enjoyed Barcelona more than Paris. More things to see, more to eat and definitely more to shop =) We will update on Part 2 soon so stay tuned while I get some sleep before hitting the streets of Barcelona again.

Hola...!!!

Hola everyone, this is Joe & Em blogging from the city of Barcelona. We know many of you have been waiting for the updates on our honeymoon. Sorry for the delay as we do not have any internet access in Paris. Anyway, Paris is a beautiful city with a lot of museums. We went to a few and I was commenting where on earth did they get so many paintings?!


Below is our first meal in Paris... You can see that we were real hungry by looking at my greedy look. A lot of bread & crepes here. This plate of crepes that you see here costs us EURO$10 which is equivalent to about S$22!! I tell you we miss SINGAPORE FOOD!!!!


On the 3rd day, we went to the much anticipated Disneyland!! It was huge and there are a lot of fun rides there. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! The apple you see below is known as "Toffee Apple" and it was highly recommended by Edmund & Minghui. It was nice but after an hour of continuously licking the apple, we still couldn't finish it and gave up!


That's all folks for the update. It is 8:30am in Barcelona now and we are going out for more sighseeing and shopping. By the way, Zara, Mango, Springfield and Camper is real cheap here. Last night, we went Zara which was having summer sales, and their formal shirts were selling for 20 euros each, that is about S$45! Can't wait to do more shopping!!

Hasta luego! (See you later!)