Two New Mums: Ashley's Travelogue 2013

Every year we make it a point to travel together at least once. After the Koh Samui trip in May, our next holiday destination was Spain for the summer. We first landed in Barcelona in the morning and then travelled straight on to Ibiza, the party town. After our 2 night stopover in Ibiza, we moved on to Seville and then Madrid, returning thereafter to Barcelona for 4 nights before coming back home to Singapore. Summer in Spain is really very hot, with temperatures hovering around 35 to 42 degrees Celsius. All the shops close for siesta between 2pm to 7pm every day which was when we are left to our own devices to roam around the city. I have tons of photos to show and I will try my best to keep this post informative and interesting, yet neat and concise. So here’s a peek into my 10 day Sizzling Spain vacation. Enjoy!

First Class

Our very own passage

Pardon Maggie in the photo...haha, I wanted to take a photo of the whole Private room.

Maggie with Champagne.

Full three course meal before the flight.

Two sets of menu

This is by far the best prata we ever had, and we cannot stop thinking about it.

Nom nom nom

Group photo before take off

Maggie & I

Louise

More food throughout the flight.

Service was impeccable.

The flight attendant could remember our likes and dislikes through out the flight,

We opted for dim sum breakfast.

After 13 hours we are here! But I don't want to get off the plane!

Checking in for our domestic flight to Ibiza

First meal in Barcelona

1st Handsome man spotted.. and cheers to many more.

Ibiza

Our apartment for the next 2 days.

Everyone busy settling in.

PARTY!

Cheers to no hangover as the liquor is simply too expensive in the club. Euro 10 for 1 bottle of beer. So all of us managed to wake up the next day for breakfast!

During this trip, amazingly, all of us had cravings for cola. Euro 2 for a 200ml bottle.

Paris Hilton is in Ibiza too!

Supermarket to replenish water and toilet paper.

Exploring the town

We are attracted to the colourful doors and windows around Ibiza old town.

Lunch

Breakfast at the apartment the next day before flying to Seville.

Lunch on the last day in Ibiza.

Bye Ibiza and

Seville here we come!

Breakfast the next morning.

Crossing the road.

Plaza de Spain

Beer costs Euro 2 each

Lunch

More food and drinks for the 3 of us as we were not keen to queue and visit Christopher Columbus.

Traditional Flamenco dancing

Metropol de Parasol

Dinner was not to our liking and we moved on to an even worse venue for part 2.

We had so much anticipation for the Japanese food but after we stepped in, we realised that the restaurant was not opened by Japanese.

Fried udon which looks like fried noodle from our zi char stall.

Sushi which tasted horrible

My udon soup which tasted like normal soup noodle.

Day 2

A visit to the Real Alcazar - The Alcázar of Seville (Spanish "Reales Alcázares de Sevilla" or "Royal Alcazars of Seville", is a royal palace in Seville, Spain, originally a Moorish fort. It is the oldest royal palace still in use in Europe. (extracted from Wikipedia)

We attempted to jump again

Lunch time again.

More Sangria

Throughout the trip, we didn't really enjoy Spanish food, every meal consisted of olives and olives, ham and more ham. Therefore I will not be introducing much on the food we had eaten ya,

Bye Seville and Hi

Madrid

I love men in Spain. This dude is super cute and provided super fantastic service.

The basement of the restaurant was really cool, it was like having dinner on the beach without the sun.

After a good nights rest, it was time to explore Madrid.

First time we took a metro in Spain.

And the first activity of the day is Segway!

I hereby conclude, no one will look good in a helmet.

Karen picked it up real fast.

Next was our Miss Hooi

And she got so scared that she couldn't let go of the tour guide's hand

Feeling very proud of herself.

One by One

Finally it was time for Lunch!

The food looked really yummy and pretty in the showcase, but the prices here were more expensive.

One of the better lunches we had in Spain.

Then moving on to the museum

But the 3 of us decided to grab a drink instead of paying Euro 14.

We were having so much fun!

Dinner

Roasted green peppers with sea salt. It was so yummy that we had to order 1 more plate.

Everyone was counting the number of stems on the peppers to see who had the most.

Last day in Madrid

More churros

How could we go home without handmade leather shoes?

Barcelona

I like this photo very much.. Walks of life. Old man crossing the road with us.

We spotted a hair salon operated by some Chinese on our way to dinner.

We just had to get our hair washed.

What are you looking at Maggie?

This photo acts as proof that we have paid Louise. Hahaha..

The very friendly waiter.

The next morning, photoshoot by the window of our apartment

Barcelona is dedicated to Gaudi, we visited all of his works and I have to say, I LOVE LOVE the cathedral very much and I strongly encourage everyone to come and visit it at least once in your life time.