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Harbour city
Woke up and finally got some chance to see Barcelona under the sun. It was so warm and I didn't really have to wear black safari jacket. I took a random stroll meaning to find one of Gaudi's houses and walked along La Rambla. La Rambla is the city's main street and very touristy. I went into Maccas and Burger King to check out prices (they are always great when gauging how expensive a city ...
Art, up to doggies collar
... contrast of the two. The Joan Miro Foundation in its specially designed white washed brick/stone 1970's gallery displaying a wonderul range of his works from his early 20's from 1917 through to his later years in the 1970 when painting in his old age. Miro had started the Foundation by donating a huge collection of his own works and then others have been acquired or on loan. ...
At last, the Picasso Museum
We did the English tour of the Picasso Museum, even though it is in the same street as our apartment we had not been inside.
The guide was fabulous, learnt a lot about Picasso and his development as a painter from a very young age to his now renowned style. Thoroughly enjoyed the tour. One of the most interesting of his artworks was a huge painting that took him 3 years. It was a copy of an ...
Spain!
June 4
Most of the Mizzou students on my trip are in Barcelona this weekend, so I met up with them on the beach today. At first it was cloudy and cold, but it changed later on in the day. We laid out on the beach all day and drank the best sangria in the world. It was ice cold and was the absolute best drink I've ever had! We left the beach around 6 to shower and get ready for our first real night in Barcelona. We were all separated in different hostels so each night we met ...
The city of Gaudi
... I mean, okay, there are shops. Awesome. Now what? And they weren't even specialty shops, they were stores you see everywhere else in the world with a few souvenirs stores thrown in. However, when we wandered off a little bit we found that the small streets to the left were where the cool stuff was. There are countless arts and crafts stores and unique specialty clothing stores all over the place. I knew that I'd I had the time, money, and luggage space that I could ...


