Published on Friday, December 2, 2011 by David Leigh Barcelona is completely full of things to see and do and when your time is so limited, as it is for a lot of UK visitors to the city who stay for a weekend or simply a little longer, you want to be certain you carefully plan to make certain you see what you really came to see. So , here's my list of things for you to do and see while in Barcelona, making ...

Published on Thursday, October 6, 2011 by David Leigh Many people's view of Spain is of low budget tourism with overcrowded resorts and package holiday makers packed like Sardines into tall hostels that congest the views of the sea and which completely overmaster the fishing towns that were once found there. However , while that may certainly be true thanks to the visitor policies of the tyrant General Franco, there ar...

Published on Thursday, September 29, 2011 by David Leigh Barcelona is one of the hottest destinations around right now, as visitors from every area of Europe fly on the so called "no frills" airlines and cruise ships set off or stop by from what's now one of the most hectic cruise ports in the world. Here passengers embark and disembark for Mediterranean cruises that take it ports as diverse as Italy, North Africa and...

Published on Monday, September 26, 2011 by David Leigh Barcelona always appears to be near the top of the list of towns folks want to visit and with excellent reason. After being overlooked for a few years while struggling under the hardships imposed on Catalonia by the Franco dictatorship Barcelona ultimately appeared. And when it secured the 1992 Olympics the investment in the city actually brought it forward to what ...

Published on Saturday, September 17, 2011 by David Leigh Istanbul is known as the gateway between the east and west, with the town divided by the Bosphorus. This brook connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and thus acts as the boundary between Europe and Asia. The town used to be famous as Byzantium and later Constantinople; its modern name goes back some 10 centuries and was first Stambul, which is doubtless a co...

Published on Friday, September 16, 2011 by David Leigh When I first moved to Catalonia it was to the great town of Barcelona, and while the centre has many studios with real character, it was to the Sants district that I moved in an old flat dating from the late nineteenth century and so near to the train line that it shook every time a train went under on its way to Sants Station. While it had been a little worrying i...