Barcelona meet 2004 ?

On the 3rd Sunday of June, there is a small airshow at Sabadell, the smaller airfield of Barcelona ( 2 C990 Coronado’s of Spantax there (more or less)). As I am the entire month in the aerea, I am going there on Sundaymorning.

And on robbery, the “Plaza de Catalunya” and the “Ramblas” is very infamous for robbery. I was “under attack” twice, one time my entire photjacket was cutted open with a knive , the second time two girls tried to pick pocket me in the train. Both time i noticed it and nothing was stolen.

BW Roger

Originally posted by T5
This topic is starting to get drift away from the original subject and onto things which should be posted on the General Discussion forum.

Anyone else up for the trip? If not, can we start making plans? 🙂

Well I’m thinking of making it a least a two day event. I’ve spent an entire week in Barcelona before and a one day hit is looking tricky from GLA. I intend to spend some quality spotting time at El Prat and some quality time in el centro de ciudad.:D I’ll formulate my holiday leave and flight plan within the next few days. I’ll probably have to wait until March wages day though to pay for it.

Infact….. The beach is quite awesome, as well as the usual beach “eye candy” and attractions, if aircraft are landing from the North they fly parallel to the beach presumabley offering good photo opportunities with a decent lens. Although, sat on a beach with a camera and binocs may get you into trouble !!!

G.

This topic is starting to get drift away from the original subject and onto things which should be posted on the General Discussion forum.

Anyone else up for the trip? If not, can we start making plans? 🙂

The beach

Sagradi Familie – The unfinished Catherederal

A few images of Barcelona…….

See… not that bad really !

Nou Camp……. home of Barca !

Hey robbery to tourists !!! I think a cafe in Paris last week demonstrated robbery ! 9 euro’s for a cup of tea and a cup of coffee, whats that then in £ ??? say about £6ish … Is that daylight robbery !!

On a more serious note, I think you are liable to muggings anywhere in the world you go. As long as you are vigilant and sensible about matters then you should be OK. As you can imagine in BCN there were 8 of us and post-night time we could have been mugged by anyone !. The nearest we came to a mugging is when we came out of a night club and were accosted by prostitutes. Barcelona prostitutes seem to extremely over friendly and as one of my friends nearly found out when he was engaging in what he believed to be a threesome. One groped his “frontals” another grabbed his hands placed them on her anatomy whilst the other tried to frisk his back pockets. Fortunately he and the rest of us became wise and moved on before any damage was done. (PS we weren’t on the lookout for these type of women – they do just literally “grab you”). Another of my mates spent the night asleep on the beach and returned next morning unscathed.

So as I mentioned, If there is you are in a group and keep your wits about you you should be fine, as I’m sure in any city / town in the world.

G.

Originally posted by Jeanske_SN
Not true, crime levels in Barcelina (here I mean robbery of tourists) are very high!!! You can get robbed everywhere DUH, but you don’t have the same chance everywhere.

Got any stats to prove that?

Not true, crime levels in Barcelina (here I mean robbery of tourists) are very high!!! You can get robbed everywhere DUH, but you don’t have the same chance everywhere.

Yeah, but that can happen absolutely anywhere in the world.

I too loved Barcelona, Went on a daytrip there when I went on Holiday to the Costa Brava.

Originally posted by Duesseldwarf
It’s one hell of a city – besides a very busy airport, the city itself is just fantastico! So much to see, do, buy, drink, eat, explore and climb. It deserves at least a long weekend if you’ve never been before.

Ah what mammories I have of BCN!!!
😀 🙂 😀 😉

All good unless you get robbed!!!

Since the last 15 years or so, I live 2 to 3 months a year at 40 km from Barcelona, but on aviation related things there is almost nothing to do, so what’s the reason to go there in June??? BW Roger

It’s one hell of a city – besides a very busy airport, the city itself is just fantastico! So much to see, do, buy, drink, eat, explore and climb. It deserves at least a long weekend if you’ve never been before.

Ah what mammories I have of BCN!!!
😀 🙂 😀 😉

If it’s that cheap and we are travelling about 700 miles for it, would it be possible for some of us to stay a couple of days?

I visited BCN last summer on my stag weekend. It wasnt an aviation trip though as im sure can imagine!!! We flew LHR to BCN on an Airbus A319 and returned BCN – LGW on a 737-400.

Ren, I may have a few phone numbers of Barcelona residents that I met there that may put you up !!!! …. Oh hang on, the misses threw them out !! 😀 Only Joking. No seriously though we stopped in a youth hostel in BCN for about £8 per night (although we didn’t all stop there every night !!!) so if your looking for cheep and cheerful I can give you the address.

I would love to go back to BCN (on the aviation theme !) , Just about to start a new job so it may be tricky getting some time out so early in…..

Take Care all

G.

hopefully this time not missing the heatwave as i have for the past 2 years as when we got back it turned cold

i might be in the area then as my dad gets free travel on european railways so we might be going to spain for summer hollidays

T5, don’t get too excited about the 767s, they are arguably the worst planes in the BA fleet pax wise 🙁

I’ll probably have to overnight as all the day return flights I can find are arriving and leaving again with a one hour turnaround time.

Yippee !:D