Special Airport Tax at El PRAT??

With all the fancy fuel surcharges and airport taxes that Easyjet or Ryanaer flight might seem slightly more expensive than you bargained for.....However some of the good citizens of Barcelona don't feel you are paying enough to visit their wonderful city and have banded together to implement their own charge.

Barcelona - Such a beautiful horizon/ Such a wonderful Delusion

Let the songs begin
-Déjalo nacer
Let the music play
-Ahhhhhhhh...
Make the voices sing
-Nace un gran amor
Start the celebration
-Ven a mí
And cry
-Grita
Come alive
-Vive
And shake the foundations from the skies
Ah,Ah,Shaking all our lives

Barcelona - Such a beautiful horizon
Barcelona - Like a jewel in the sun
Por ti seré gaviota de tu bella mar
Barcelona - Suenan las campanas
Barcelona - Abre tus puertas al mundo
If God is willing
-If God is willing
If God is willing
Friends until the end
Viva - बार्सेलोना
Freddie Mercury



Now I'm a big fan of Freddie MerK , he got many things right-the dress sense,the sexual promiscuity and he could certainly carry a good tune. An intelligent bloke with good taste hey? However he let me down when it comes to Barcelona.That's right, Freddie joins the herd for once and perpetuates the general delusion held by the rest of the tourists who trek down the 'famed' Las Ramblas like so many caribou. The only line that rings true in this song is the "and cry" bit.
I've seen lots of people crying in Barcelona-I've done a fair bit myself I can tell you-I've seen old women crying after they've been dragged across the ground because one of the locals took a fancy to her fake Louis Vuitton handbag, I've seen junkies crying for want of a fix and pumped up Glaswegians weeping because they got one.
Delusion wafts around Barcelona like methane on a pig farm. Speaking of pigs...one of the most delusional comments I've ever heard came from a champion pig eater from Galicia named Don Enrique. This guy used to munch on more boars than Obelix from the kiddies comic book series Asterix and Obelix. In between gobbling on piglets he would offer long and tedious discourse on the glories of Barcelona. 'No thieves in Barcelona" was a one of his favourite phrases. A bit like Freddie M he was deeply smitten by the beautiful horizons..so smitten he failed to notice the infestation of mice in his own apartment. When someone drew his attention to a particularly large mouse/rat thing with big red beady eyes making merry on top of his fridge he solemnly pronounced "there are NO rats in Barcelona" and if Don Enrique says there are no rats in Barcelona then there are NO rats in Barcelona.
Both Freddie Merk and the Don had trademark Moustaches...both were deeply smitten with Barcelona..so the equation runs like this...man with distinctive moustache +Barcelona= visions of beautiful horizons and a city without rats=DELUSION