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There’s an awful lot to detain you in Barcelona, but just beyond the city are several sites eminently worthy of day trips, including the holy Catalan shrine Montserrat, the relaxed beach- and-museum town of Sitges, and the cava wine country in the region of Penedès.
For reasons that need not detain us here, some years ago I happened to be visiting the translation section of a large publishing company in darkest Hertfordshire, England, and I became involved in conversation with one of the employees, a charming young French translator.
The village is neat and tidy, but there’s nothing to detain you for very long.
By July 3, DCI Tenet had asked about 20 of his counterparts in friendly foreign intelligence services to detain specific al Qaeda members and to generally harass al Qaeda-affiliated cells.
Few tourists make it to this provincial capital, and it isn’t likely to detain you for more than a couple of hours.