Gran Teatre del Liceu

Advantages: Sights & sounds
Disadvantages: Petty crime

...Boqueria, subject of the next article in the series, is a covered market that must be seen to be believed. The Museum of Erotica across the street has its fans - you know who you are! Admire the "Palau de la Virreina", "Gran Teatre del Liceu" and "Palau Güell". Finally, we reach the impressive Columbus Monument by the port. How about this for trivia - the discoverer of America is pointing in the wrong direction! La Rambla can seem a lot longer than a single mile, depending on the mime artists, puppeteers and human statues there on the day. During our frequent passages, we witnessed a fidgety Batman in an ill-fitting suit, a couple in authentic 17th century attire, a 70 year-old Rivaldo impersonator and ET! The pet stalls lining the avenue arouse mixed feelings of amazement and outrage at the sight of caged exotic creatures, from the mundane... Read review

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Advantages: Weather, food, and shopping
Disadvantages: Playa del Ingles doea have alot of Germans

...I have been to Gran Canaria twice now, once to Playa del Ingles and Puerto Rico, and both have been brilliant holidays, with all year round brilliant weather, I have been in the summer and I have also been at winter and both times it never went below 30c. THe tourist industry is rife, with shops at every turn selling cheap electronics, alcohol, cigarettes, perfume, and jewellery. The island is full of good restaurants all selling very cheap, high quality food. My favourite is chicken, sold for less than £3 and about the size of a whole chicken, with everything on the side. The beaches are gorgeous and waterparks are great, definetely a great holiday destination.... Read review

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Advantages: visually stunning, will keep you entertained for hours
Disadvantages: none

...shaped, well , eggs. Surrounded by well trimmed hedges and tall confiers of some sort it certainly makes a statement. Welcome to the Teatre-Museu Dali. Salvador Dali was a surrealist. Surrealism is an art movement in which the mind is supposedly liberated and so the unconsious mind can be used along with the dreamlike state gained in order to create images etc that are truer than reality or more than real. So some of the works of art may look a little strange and you have to use your imagination. The Teatre-Museu Dali is certainly unlike any other museum I've ever visited, which was what Dali was aiming for when he stared designing it in the 1960's. It was a project he became devoted to and he wanted to create an atmosphere in which the visitor saw the museum, not as a storehouse for his works of art, but as an experience in which... Read review

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