Barcelona !!! BE AWARE

21st Dec 08 - 23rd Dec 08

Plaza Espanyol

Port Vell

this lady is so cute ... lol

Casa Mila

Casa Batlo

Sagrada Familia Cathedral

Casa Batlo - one of GAUDI's masterpiece

Food of Spanish

Overall , Spain is a very beautiful place to go .... i was really fascinated by the beautiful building structure ... " very special ...." " very beautiful.." " let's take photo together " .... these are the very common comments v heard in the whole trip ... haha ... funny comments .... the only things tat i wanna emphasize is tat PLEASE BE AWARE OF PICK POCKETS IN BARCELONA ... one of my frens , YZ got pick pocket by a Romania lady ... it happened in the railway station ... when my frens were waiting for the train to approach , a lady jumped out of no where n hold my fren's hand pretending like wanna tell her something after tat my fren realised tat her money was being stolen then she quickly grabbed hold the lady's hand and yelled .... tat moment all of my frens were in the train and her hand was stucked on the automatic door .... then every passenger in the train was looking at them n the train was forced to stop proceeding to the next station till the police arrived ... it was really dramatic ... u cant even imagine how skillful those professional pick-pocket they were .... my fren actually put her small sling bag in her long coat ... which u can hardly find out tat she have a bag with her .... and the Romanian lady passed the stack of money ( approximately 300 euro =RM1500) to her partner .... the important part was tat she can even manage to take out cash from my fren's wallet in her bag in such a great speed .... ONLY CASH .... NOT WALLET .... they are really well-trained pick-pocket ... at the end, they managed to send the Romanian lady to police station and my fren lost 300 euro ... luckily they din take the passport ... my frens described the whole situation to me .... ( tat time i wasn't there becoz they reached barcelona one day earlier)...i found tat it was really dramatic when my frens (about 8 of them) surrounded the Romanian lady to the corner of the station while waiting for the police to arrive .... so pls be extremely careful whenever u go , not jus when u go spain ...... this can happen wherever u are ...v even heard tat many of them got pickpocket in spain or even lost money in 5 stars HOTEL... after this incident , all of them carried their backpack in front and my fren dun even dare to put her valueble stuff with her ... jus throw everything to my fren .. haha ... and the other problem in spain is the communication problem .... many of them cant speak English .... u have to use body language or simply make a guess ... americans may understand .... they learn spanish during high school ... i jus realised the need to learn extra language .... sometimes u will find it inconvenient and uncomfortable when u cant understand everything around u ...besides tat , the service in Spain really make me disappointed ...firstly , the lady at the reception desk of the HOSTEL GOTHIC QUARTER..they have a huge quarrel with her and she was like sobbing .. haha...my frens even made some comment in the some blog ... this is the comment :-----

"The morning desk staff (old and curly hair women) is VERY VERY RUDE!!!! when we first reach there , she want us to pay extra. when we asked for the reason , she just said that she don't know everything and refuse to call the manager and ask. She kept yelling cash from us every morning and said that we can't stay at the night if we don't pay immediately. when we try to speak with her, she shout at us and order us to wait in the LIVING ROOM and keep repeating the phrases like " NO NO NO NO NO" and "please go to the living room" and " do you understand English ?" and " please speak slowly and correctly". I bet u will hear the same things if you go there!

Another thing worth mentioning is the lovely women working in the evening. She is very helpful and lovely . She suggested to us that we could put our luggage in our fren's room in our last day of travel (my fren stay for extra 1 day).

At the last day of our travel, the rude women said :"this is prohibited" . We wasted 2 hours to talk with the manager about this thing . That rude women just keep saying " NO NO NO NO NO" . We are very very regret to stay in this hostal and very disappointed about the service of the staff ."

Secondly , the lady at the check in counter in GIRONA AIRPORT .... she wan us to pay the the luggage which is quite small coz she said tat every passenger oni can bring one hand luggage to the plane , even a small hand bag will be counted in ... then she forced us to pay for extra 20euro for the luggage .. god it is damn small .... this really made my dad gone mad and he scolded the lady " u r crazy " ... haha .... this airline is RYANAIR .... trust me ... their service really disappointed u .... actually my impression for spain is tat POOR SERVICE but BEAUTIFUL BUILDING ... everywhere is full of artistic atmosphere ... the famous artist Pablo Picasso , Salvatore Dali , Gaundi successfully created a wonderful country but .........sigh .........

anyway, i hope to visit spain again ... u will b fascinated by the artistic buiding structures .... it's amazing to see something u cant see in ur home country .... it's a different cultural , different lifestyle .... and better do enough research when u wanna visit a place ... it will help u alot ....and remember to grab hold ur bag tightly and b prepared ....