{"id":107,"date":"2008-11-02T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/barcelona-spain\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:54:48","slug":"barcelona-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/travel\/barcelona-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo alignright\">Plaza Catalunya at night from hotel balcony<br \/><img src=\"\/images\/uploaded\/plaza-catalunya-barcelona-240.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza Catalunya at night from Hotel Ginebra, Barcelona, Spain\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pla&#231;a Catalunya at night from hotel balcony<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I arrived in Barcelona, Spain at around 11AM.  Upon arrival, I went outside the airport and took the A1 bus which dropped me right in the heart of the city at Pla&#231;a Catalunya where my hotel was located.  Knowing that Barcelona was a busy place, that it would probably be rather expensive, and that I&#8217;d be tired after flying over night, I did some research before hand and pre booked a hotel.  I stayed at a place called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelginebra.net\/ingles.html\">Hotel Ginebra<\/a>, which according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Hotel_Review-g187497-d208589-Reviews-Hotel_Ginebra-Barcelona_Catalonia.html\">Trip Advisor<\/a> was a fairly budget hotel for its location.   It was &#8230; <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;padding:3px 6px;\"><a href=\"\/travel\/spain\/barcelona.php\">&#8230;Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a side note, while there, when I was wandering around <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pla%C3%A7a_Catalunya\">Pla\u00e7a Catalunya<\/a> I caught a street performance by a pretty good band called Barrio Candela.  If was some cool music, sort of funky, reggae, Latin, etc.  Check them out:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:100%; text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xvmqrWhtXUc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>If you don&#8217;t see anything below, click to view embedded video<\/i><\/a><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xvmqrWhtXUc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xvmqrWhtXUc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo excerpt alignleft\">Plaza Catalunya at night from hotel balcony<img src=\"\/images\/uploaded\/plaza-catalunya-barcelona-240.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza Catalunya at night from Hotel Ginebra, Barcelona, Spain\" class=\"size-excerpt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pla&#231;a Catalunya at night from hotel balcony<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I arrived in Barcelona, Spain at around 11AM.  Upon arrival, I went outside the airport and took the A1 bus which dropped me right in the heart of the city at Pla&#231;a Catalunya where my hotel was located.  Knowing that Barcelona was a busy place, that it would probably be rather expensive, and that I&#8217;d be tired after flying over night, I did some research before hand and pre booked a hotel.  I stayed at a place called Hotel Ginebra, which according to Trip Advisor was a fairly budget hotel for its location.   It was &#8230; <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;padding:3px 6px;\">&#8230;Keep reading<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, while there, when I was wandering around Pla\u00e7a Catalunya I caught a street performance by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/travel\/barcelona-spain\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142,10],"tags":[103,55,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}