Barca, what to do?

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Jello

He's Not A Jelly Belly
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Jul 8, 2003
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I'm off this weekend for a 4 day jaunt in Barcelona on a pals stag do. Apart from the obvious tour of Nou Camp anyone got any idas on where to go and what to do.
 






Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
The Ramblas on a Sunday (particularly)is worth a visit. Great restaurants, bars, red light district, hubbub of a young vibrant city.
 


TrevorDove

Member
Jan 4, 2004
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Brighton
Beware of the prostitutes in Barca - they pounce on groups of English lads, touching you all over and then trying to make off with your wallet- one of our lot got done by a woman doing this...

The Olympic Village has a load of clubs and bars - it depends on what you are after really?

All in all great city :drink:
 


REDLAND

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Jul 7, 2003
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At the foot of the downs
Say hello to Larsson from me, if ya see him like

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Jello

He's Not A Jelly Belly
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Jul 8, 2003
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Yeah I've heard about the young ladies going around in pairs trying to whip your wallet. Most of us are pig ugly so it will be a give away if they try it on with us!
 


Man of Harveys

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
18,774
Brighton, UK
Lucky so and so. My better half is a born and bred Barcalonina so I've got to know the city quite well through her, it is an amazing place.

Get one of the all-day tickets on the tourist buses so you can jump on and off. One of the routes goes to the Nou Camp. Also the Sagrada Familia is unmissable - you can watch them building a cathedral before your eyes - even if you're not much of an architecture buff while on a stag do... btw, the lift is for wimps.

Don't forget the Olympic complex on Montjuic, you can normally just wander into the Olympic stadium for a look (where Espanyol play their home games) and apparently you can also swim in the pool where they did the diving in '92 that has the whole city in the background.

Also, take the cable car over the harbour, the one that leaves from the bottom of the Ramblas for a very cool view of the whole place then go to one of the seafood places on the harbour front Barceloneta. Don't be afraid to order "Black Rice", basically paella but in squid ink that makes your teeth look like the late Queen Mother's, gawd bless her.

As for bars, there are thousands of them, everywhere, all cheaper and generally better food than here. The weirdest/coolest one I saw was in the waxwork museum, towards the bottom of the Rambla on the LHS. And I'd take your Speedos and eye up the local totty on the city beaches by the Olympic village.

Shit, I wish I was going now :(
 


the full harris

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Feb 14, 2004
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i have never been but the old dear got pick pocketed there a couple of years ago. so watch out for that.
 




CHAPPERS

DISCO SPENG
Jul 5, 2003
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The pick pockets in Barca are SHIT.

One group of kids tried to make me dnace with them while they nabbed it but i'd seen it happen about 2 minutes earlier, again unsuccessfully. They then tried to sell me hash so i told them to f*** OFF.
 


Man of Harveys

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
18,774
Brighton, UK
ChapmansThe Saviour said:
The pick pockets in Barca are SHIT.

One group of kids tried to make me dnace with them while they nabbed it but i'd seen it happen about 2 minutes earlier, again unsuccessfully. They then tried to sell me hash so i told them to f*** OFF.

According to my sort-of mother in law, gangs of small Moroccan children also carry a football around with them and encourage you to have a kick around with them before they pinch stuff off you. But if you go a bit careful in the area between the Rambla and the base of Montjuic and around the Plaza Espana, you should be OK. I've always felt pretty safe there, especially compared to, say, some cities in the US.
 






Kenhead

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Oct 1, 2003
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Brighton
I went to the zoo there when i went to barcelona, apparently there zoo has the only albino ape in the world!!
 


sullyupthewing

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Jul 5, 2003
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brighton and worthing
If you are offered cheap ciggies by the pikeys down the rambla give the right money if you give em a large note as most tourist do they f*** off and you do not see the change.
It's a great city been there about ten times I love it.
 


Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,056
Living In a Box
Mount Junc, Olympic Stadium and the cable car is great also recommend a trip to the beach area.

If you like zoos there is a very bored white gorilla called Snowflake who gazes at everything in resentment - think all the gorillas are inverse racialists and hate his guts.
 




chez

Johnny Byrne-The Greatest
Jul 5, 2003
10,042
Wherever The Mood Takes Me
TrevorDove said:
Beware of the prostitutes in Barca - they pounce on groups of English lads, touching you all over and then trying to make off with your wallet- one of our lot got done by a woman doing this...

The Olympic Village has a load of clubs and bars - it depends on what you are after really?

All in all great city :drink:

According to one of my mates Danny, the hookers give a marvellous Blow Job!!
 


Northstander

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Oct 13, 2003
14,028
filthy said:
I went to the zoo there when i went to barcelona, apparently there zoo has the only albino ape in the world!!


"SNOWFLAKE", The poor thing is no more, the zoo gave it a lethal injection I believe. The Poor animal had cancer I think of some sort and relieved it of the pain. It was quite old as far as I know and had a good innings.
 


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