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Ready to Travel Again?
Tired of being cooped up in your home? Bored with television or those endless home projects? Ready to get out in the world, or at a...
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Day Trips from Barcelona – Part VI, Section 3 of the Barcelona as a Port Stop Series
France, Bagà and Andorra If, you have already spent time in Barcelona and visited the usual points of interest in the Catalonia region....
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Part VI of the Barcelona as a Port Stop Series Section 2 Tossa de Mar, Tarragona, Girona & Aventura
In part two of day trips from the port of Barcelona, I cover Tossa de Mar, Tarragona, Girona and Port Aventura. Tossa de Mar...
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Day Trips from Barcelona – Part VI of the Barcelona as a Port Stop Series
Section One: Ruins of Empúries and Santa Maria de Montserrat If you have been to Barcelona and want to see places in the surrounding...
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Barcelona City Tours - Part V of the Barcelona as a Port Stop Series
City Tours via Hop on Hop off buses When visiting Barcelona, there is no shortage to places to see or things to do. In this fifth article...
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Barcelona Markets - Part IV in the Barcelona as a Port Stop Series
When visiting Barcelona, there is no shortage to places to see or things to do. In this fourth article in a series of blogs about...
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Barcelona Transportation - Part III of the Barcelona Cruise Stop Series
Barcelona as a Pre and Post Cruise Stop When visiting Barcelona, there is no shortage to places to see or things to do. In this third...
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Barcelona Places to See - Part II of the Barcelona Cruise Stop Series
In this second article in a series of blogs about Barcelona as a pre or post cruise stop, I cover Places to See. You can determine which...
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Barcelona​ History - Part I of the Barcelona Cruise Stop Series
On those early visits, I discovered that the human occupation of Barcelona dates to the Neolithic and early Chalcolithic periods. ...
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Martintown, the Ruins at St Raphael, St Andrews West
About a sixty-minute drive south of Canada’s Capital, on County Road 18, lies the little village of Martintown. Around 98km from Ottawa,...
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