Huge shout-out to our awesome host and hostess, E. and N., in Barcelona! They are sharing their wonderful apt. in a sweet nbd. with us even though they don't even know us that well! Yet! And they said I could play Mariokart on their Wii with them next year at MIT! This is pretty awesome if you ask me.
Barcelona is beautiful--we visited the Palau de Musica Catalan (Palace of Traditional Catalan Music) yesterday, which is AMAZING. Catalan is also way more French and Italian than Spanish, if you ask me. We visited the Park Guell today, which features the work of the architect Gaudi--this was also great. and the weather is beautiful here--a nice breeze and sun. Lots of palm trees as well, which I didn't expect. Been speaking a lot of Spanish--actually, been speaking a lot of spanish all trip, which has been great. Also Chinese.
We leave for Madrid on Friday, and fly to Frankfurt on Saturday. Then off to dusseldorf for a couple of days, and then we fly home on Monday! I can't believe it.
We are both pretty ready to go home. Europe has been amazing, but travel is pretty tiring and we're looking forward to being able to eat and sleep like normal people, and not carry all our worldly possessions on our sweaty backs. Plus it is SO expensive here. Checking our bank accounts is very depressing.
In the meantime, though, Barcelona has been wonderful! Our combined pictures number almost a thousand, and with our photographic talent all I can say is you're in for a treat.
Hasta luego,
X
4 comments:
If you have time, you should consider visiting the Casa Güell by Gaudi. It is unusually cool, at least as I remember.
Do they have little tapas bars in Barcelona by the way?
You should have them connect their Wii online and then you can play me from Cambridge. LOL although considering 90% of the fun in playing you is watching you move the controller, the image of you with the Wii steering wheel is almost worth the plane ride over.
When I saw that you were in Barcelona, my first thought was that I had to tell you to go to the Park Guell, since I went when I was there and thought it was pretty awesome. I'm happy you went regardless! Did you walk up and down that big pedestrian street (don't remember the name...)? The hotel I stayed at was on that street... Did you sample the awesome gelato???
Yeah, all the Guell stuff was awesome!
And they absolutely have tapas bars :) We went to an excellent one called El Reloj last night...mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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