Barcelona

We had a wonderful time in Barcelona this past weekend. On Friday, we left at the crack of dawn and arrived at about 9:30, after which we took about a two and a half hour bus tour of the city, stopping to look at some of the sights, among other things La Catedral Sagrada Familia, El Parque Güell, and the complex where they had the Olympics. We dropped our stuff off at our hotel and went to a really nice lunch at a restaurant near the beach, where we all stuffed ourselves with incredible food. The only drawback was that immediately after, we had a three and a half hour bike tour of Barcelona, mostly the old Gothic city. It was a lot of fun, though a little bit tough with fifteen people staying together in the city.

Saturday we saw the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, which had a lot of good examples of medieval art and a lot of reconstructed wall paintings from medieval churches. A few of us went later to La Pedrera, which is one of Gaudí´s buidings, very cool, very weird. Saturday night was also a huge Carnival celebration in Sitges, a port city about 30 minutes away. I went with a friend here and we partied on the beach and in the streets with probably over a million people in costume. It definitely was a crazy time.

I´ll try to have some pictures up in a few days...