Just now returned from Paseig de Gracia where the riders passed through at the beginning of the Tour de France Stage 7.
Here is a video I took as they passed through – Lance Armstrong appears at the 15 second mark!
After Oliver’s first baseball tournament this weekend (for FC Barcelona U-12 baseball team) we went to a new favourite place on Calle Provenca in BCN – La Bodegueta Provenca.
Its a new bar/restaurant and a more upmarket version of the original La Bodegueta which is close by.
You can see my dirty feet after a long day playing ball with Oliver in between baseball matches ;-)
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On Norway National Day (May 17), Pia and Oliver went to the party organised by the Norwegian Consulate at a lovely house in the Collserolla mountains above Barcelona.
Oliver was filmed by Diari de Barcelona, a local channel with foreign language content. Go forward to 04:12 to hear/see Oliver….
Last week we had a sudden hail storm in Barcelona. Pretty strange for this time of year. Even stranger was that this hail storm only hit parts of town. Take a look:
We drove to Montseny today and took these photos. Lovely park.
Oliver’s 10th birthday party theme was something like “spooky stuff”. I dressed up as Frankenstein (not too much to change…), Pia dressed up as a witch (no comments!) and Oliver had some “blood” on his face.
Teddy (Alex, our neighbour’s dog) here eats some scooby snacks out of water, then Pia gets the idea to put some cut apple into the water. Oliver joins in!
We have a neighbour called Alex, and she has a dog (or the dog has Alex, depending on your point of view) called Teddy.
Teddy loves food. It’s like he is never fed. In this trick, he trains Pia to give him a Scooby Snack by playing “muertito” which translates as “quite dead” in Spanish.
The video was taken on Oliver’s birthday a couple of weeks ago. The light is poor because it was dark and we were having a dark, creepy party with only candles…
Busy weekend. Today we drove up to the Parc Nacional de Garraf, which is off the coast road near Castelldefels (close to Barcelona).
The drive up the mountain is fabulous – desolate but beautiful scenes – pine trees, steep drops, valleys and streams.
Our first stop was at Palau Novella, a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery – the only one in Catalunya. The Monastery keep goats and sheep, offer short pre-arranged tours and yoga/relaxation classes.
Nearby, there is a Catalan donkey refuge. The aim of the refuge is to organise breeding of the race, which is endangered – there are only 1000 Catalan donkeys left.
The donkeys have very distinct markings – white rings around the eyes and nose. The man who looks after the donkeys let us in to the refuge and put Oliver on one of the donkeys. He loved it :-)