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day trips outside barcelona city

  • 02-07-2008 2:24pm
    #1
    Timmy_d
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    anyone recommend any day trips outside barcelona?going there for 5 days but have seen most of the city allready and was thinking with the heat it would be nice to escape outside it for a bit(any quiet beaches etc)...not too for though as we will be staying around ramblas at night...


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  • #2
    snollup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭snollup


    Jump on the train that goes to Tarragona. It's a really nice little town/city, you'll easily pass an afternoon there. Also, Sitges is also nice, really good beach!


  • #3
    Tiriel
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    Get a train to Montserratt and get the cable car up the mountain - it's really really nice up there. A bit freaky on the cable car but it's amazing!! Only about 1 hr outside Barcelona.

    Linky http://www.aeridemontserrat.com/op_b1.htm


  • #4
    alottodo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭alottodo


    Have you tried the beach in Barcelona?


  • #5
    Timmy_d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Timmy_d


    alottodo wrote: »
    Have you tried the beach in Barcelona?

    ah would be too packed...feck that
    ta cork girl that sounds fun actually...


  • #6
    An Citeog
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    Timmy_d wrote: »
    ah would be too packed...feck that
    ta cork girl that sounds fun actually...

    It's not that bad actually. It can get packed enough, but not in a particularly uncomfortable way. As a general rule though, the further north you go (use the yellow line of the metro), the less packed the beaches are.

    Apart from that, Tarragona is a really nice old Roman city was once the capital of the province of Catalunya. Figueres, to the north of Barcelona, is quite nice and was home to Salvador Dalí. Worth a visit anyway if you've got time. As for Sitges, from wiki:

    It is also a gay tourist town - in July and August gay men and lesbians visit Sitges as "one of the most popular gay holiday spots in Europe";)


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  • #7
    FruitLover
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    An Citeog wrote: »
    It's not that bad actually. It can get packed enough, but not in a particularly uncomfortable way. As a general rule though, the further north you go (use the yellow line of the metro), the less packed the beaches are.

    Yeah, if you head up closer to Mar Bella or Bogatell you should be grand (I also hear there's a nudist beach further northeast...). Having said that, I've never seen the main beaches so packed that you couldn't find a spot.


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