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Dinner at Can Ravell - part 2
This menu is different to the lunch menu that 9V-SIA posted earlier. The food was excellent except the foie was brain, I think!!...it tasted OK until I worked out what it was....all in the mind (no pun, intended), I guess.
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Thanks for posting the dinner menu.
Interesting that it's same price as lunch.
Originally posted by kpc View PostThe food was excellent except the foie was brain, I think!!..
Oh! Do you mean the foie ravioli main?
Originally posted by kpc View Post
The Hilton Diagonal Mar, where we are staying.....
Try Agua or Can Majo....Last edited by 9V-SIA; 22 November 2009, 10:13 PM.
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Googling W Barcelona room pictures for an upcoming trip, whatdya know...
One by our own 9V-SIA popped up.
Just went through all six pages of this TR again. Think I gained a few good quality kgs.
Got myself a few dining recommendations from looking here.
Again, excellent TR, 9V-SIA. Your effort in making the TRs is always much appreciated.
W BCN looks very nice, but at the end I decided to try the Mandarin Oriental at PdG this time.Last edited by StarG; 24 February 2011, 07:05 PM.
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It seems all my friends have been pickpocketed in Spain.
For me, nobody gets within 6' of me. Wallet in front pocket. If anyone brushes past me, I check for my wallet.
Beware of kids. If they approach you, I put up my hand to tell them to stop.
It's called situational awareness. Army training emphasizes it!!!
It helps that I have a fierce face ( or so my friends tell me before they get to know me! )Last edited by 9V-SIA; 16 March 2011, 09:07 PM.
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When I was in BCN, my local friends advised that pickpocketing (and bag-snatching) doesn't happen that frequently, but there are higher cases in La Ramblas than anywhere else. Always be more careful and as 9V-SIA says, situationally aware.
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Originally posted by kpc View PostSadly, Bar Inopia has closed
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/725088
Tickets & 41°
Next week I'm in BCN.
I will do a report here if I can get a table at Tickets. No reservations.
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Springtime & Summer in BCN
Introduction
It's my last day in BCN and it's pouring outside. Nothing to do but comtinue this TR.
Credit is due to my friend Kyo, who came up with the idea of the Epic TR
My first visit was in Autumn 2009 with my wife.
I returned to BCN in Spring 2011 with my daughter on SQ 378/377 via MXP.
Would have preferred SQ68/67 nonstop but that service started a week later after my daughter's holiday ended.
This time, Summer 2011, I brought my son on SQ68.
It will be a TR of contrasts.
Changi
Mar 2011
I have never seen anything like it before in Changi. When boarding was announced, all the passengers rushed to board, ignoring completely the normal sequence. Italians!
What irked me was that they jammed up both aerobridges. The IFS in F struggled to get to where the bridge splits into 1L and 2L but gave up trying to get through the hoards..
I was unable to fly F because it was full. From my vantage point in 12K, full of backpackers taking advantage of the error Saver F redemptions to MXP available for a time on the SQ website
Jul 2011
I received one SMS and two phone calls to inform me that the flight was delayed. Instead of a 0040h departure, ETD was 0230h.
Most flights had left by the time we got to the F Lounge except for the Houston flight. As my son was flying in Y I didn't get to use the TPR.
No big loss as I've stopped eating supper before a red eye...
Boarding Gate B10 is as far from the lounge as you can get but good preparation for all the tapas we were about to enjoy...
The Route
SQ378 Mar 2011
We took a more southerly course than in 2009. So no Caspian Sea this flight ( see post #1 )
Unexpectedly I was asked not to take pictures while on the ground at MXP. A request of the Italian authorities..
After MXP, I moved to 11K. On our way to BCN...
....a much better Light Meal was served compared to 2009 ( see post #3 )
Of my 3 flights to BCN, the best weather on approach to take these pictures..
We took the subway to Port Olympic ( twin towers on the right in 2nd pic ), walked along the beach towards W Hotel,
had dinner at Barceloneta before walking up the Ramblas back to our hotel Omm. Recommended.
SQ68 July 2011
2K in F.. nonstop.... how could this not be my best flight to BCN?
We took the same southerly track to Europe then across the Mediterranean to a perfect landing in BCN
Climb from Changi. You've seen my pictures, now watch my movie..
Same southerly track as March 2011..
Woo hoo... no MXP time wasting stop
Last edited by 9V-SIA; 19 July 2011, 09:49 PM.
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