Barcelona

¡Hola mi amigos y familia!

Last week I spent an exhausting but thrilling 4 days in Spain! To give you a picture of the travel schedule, two mornings I had a 2:30am wake up call to catch flights and two nights where my head didn’t rest on the pillow until 4-5am. The two days home from the trip are just a burr of sleeping, eating, and trying to get the ash tray smell out of my clothes. (In Spain there is no restriction on smoking so people can light-up anywhere including in any building. While walking through a university, people were smoking in the hallways of the school.)

But I have survived with nearly a thousand pictures (no joke).

I was surprised by how mountainous Spain was - flying into Barcelona you can see all the little towns laying in the valleys of the mountains.

I went to Barcelona with three friends: Vanessa, Mona, and Andrea. The first thing we did was walk down La Rambla, a giant street with thousands of stores and street vendors. One end of La Rambla leads to the Mediterranean Sea.

The other end of La Rambla leads to a more posh part of town with fancy shopping and Plaza Catalunya.

The word gaudy comes from Antoni Gaudí, an architect whose creations are scattered all over Barcelona. Once you see the Gaudí architecture, you’ll understand why his name was used so often to describe this style that it became a word.

Park Güell is an amazing park designed by Gaudí.

My favorite part of Barcelona is the la Sagrada Familia inglesia - it is possibly the last cathedral to ever be built. The cathedral is in two different styles. Unfortunately, the Gaudí side is still under construction and the other side is being cleaned/restored so all the pictures have scaffolding.

Amazing, isn't it! The details are INCREDIBLE!