http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Mike+McDougall Travel Mike McDougall Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=77742&ca=Travel Barcelona Aquarium The perfect place to take the kids or to take cover on a rainy day in the Catalan capital, Barcelona ’s aquarium has a reputation as one of the best in the world. Located in the Port Vell area of the city, the impressive facility is the largest of its kind in Europe with twenty va... Travel Mike McDougall Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=68596&ca=Travel Towards the end of September Barcelona begins to limber up for the largest event on its festival calendar, La Mercé, a celebration of the city’s patron saint “Mare de Deu de la Mercé”. The festival heralds the end of summer and the onset of the autumn months. The festival is a real big deal for the... Travel Mike McDougall Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=72542&ca=Travel Spain , with its myriad of influences and epic history, is a country with a diverse gamut of sights and sounds to offer its 45 million tourists who visit every year. An area where this can be seen in particular is in its museums and galleries, a rich history of art and culture has left Spain a huge... Travel Mike McDougall Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=72546&ca=Travel Spain ’s capital has enjoyed a serious boom as a city break destination on the last decade. The proliferation of cheap flights has made more and more European cities accessible to weekend travellers. Often overshadowed by the Catalan capital, Barcelona , Madrid is now showing what it has to offer an... Travel Mike McDougall Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=72543&ca=Travel Spaniards seem rarely to need much of a reason for a fiesta or festival of some sort and you can pretty much guarantee that wherever you are in Spain there will be some merrymaking going on somewhere in honour of a patron saint – I’ve decided to look at some of Spain’s quirkier, slightly less known... Travel Mike McDougall Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=72544&ca=Travel Tamborrada, San Sebastián Every year on the 19th and 20th of January, the Basque city of San Sebastian prepares for the noisiest festival in the whole of Spain . From midnight to midnight the city is alive to the sound of drumming as groups of marching bands parade through the streets in honour of t... Travel Mike McDougall Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=72545&ca=Travel Christopher Columbus as born in 1451 and died in May 1506. He was a famous explorer and trader whose most significant voyage was crossing the Atlantic Ocean and landing in the Americas on October 12, 1492 . Although his actual nationality is a question of debate, this most famous voyage was done sai... Travel Mike McDougall Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=68594&ca=Travel La Sagrada Familia can be found in Barcelona, in Catalonia in Spain and is renowned as Antoni Gaudi’s masterpiece. Although thought of as a cathedral, it is in fact, a basilica – the cathedral in Barcelona is the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia. Gaudi was handed the project in 1884, but only after the fo...