Ah Bern, Switzerland. There is only one youth hostel in Bern and it is extremely overpriced as well as difficult to find. After wandering through the streets for about an hour we took a chance that a funny little sign with an arrow could be pointing towards a youth hostel and as it turned out we were right :) It was located at the bottom of this...

We arrive in Bern at night. It's a quiet government town with a nice clock. We catch the latest Harry Potter movie with German and French subtitles simultaneously...there is also an intermission! Oh the Swiss!

After what seemed to be just about the right number of days in Barcelona, Julia and I trucked it on out of Spain. Personally, I'm glad to be moving on to another country. Although it has been a great two weeks, I feel as if I've been very much Spain-ed out. There becomes a point where you can only take so much Gaudi and so much spaghetti or pizz...