Barcelona

The Dali Museum

A ceiling in the Dali Museum
The famous Mae West room in the Dali museum

Steph and Deb on the roof of La Pedrera(the other weird looking things are chimneys)

view of Sagrada Familia from Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Parc Guell
Parc Guell


After about 3 hours sleep and a near death early morning cab ride we caught a plane to barcelona.
After checking in and wandering down La Rambla and having lunch we headed out to the first of our Antoni Gaudi based expeditions which took up most of our time in Barcelona. Gaudi is a famous architect who died around 1920 and his most famous work The Sagrada Familia church is still undr construction and is still only about 50% finished.
We headed up to Guell Parc (Park Guell) and got there late afternoon (Barcelona continued our hot summer, around 36 degrees). we spent a good couple hours wandering around the famous gardens, sculptures, and Gaudi house. It was here that we were disturbed of the trend we first encountered in Prague we had noticed of people(females) doing absurd model type posing for there simple holiday photos and obviously taking themselves a little too seriously, it was in the park that we noticed this disturbing trend had seeped down to girls just over the age of ten, so what to do but start doing silly model poses ourselves. We then headed back into La Rambla and sat for a meal for an hour or 2 and then watched a couple of the many buskers. Barcelona interestingly gets busier as the day goes on, and around 10pm is busier than during the day.
The next day we headed straight for the sagrada Familia and spent a couple hours there, I continued my trend of going up high towers and spending then next half hour freaking out till we got back to ground level. very impressive structure. Then off to La Pedrera & Casa Battlo and for more Gaudi architecture. We then jumped on a 2 hour bus tour of the city (where we tried to stay awake) then to Hard rock cafe for an average meal and a wander around the shops, then off down our street(where we of course got offered drugs) back to the hotel.
our 3rd day in Barcelona started with more Gaudi at Palau Guell and off to Cathedral Musique de Catalonya to caheck out the impressive glass domed ceiling. We had impulsively decided to head out to Figures(we had joked about the idea but not too seriously till now) on a 2 hour train ride to Salvador Dalis home town to see the Musee Dali he had set up about 20 years before he died(impressive ego, set up your own museum while you're still alive) We were catching a late night flight so by the time we got there and back we had nearly 2 hours there in the nice little town and it was definitely worth the visit. By the time we flew and metroed and taxid back to Stephs house in Putney it was 2am for a solid 4 hours sleep for our flight to dublin the next morning.