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... which is very handy for those with long legs!

The thing we have been finding good about our trip is that everything has been pre-booked so there is none of that last minute looking for flights or rooms. We can’t tell you how many times we have seen people turned away from accommodation late at night due to there being no vacancies. You have to feel for them. Lucky for us though it was just a quick cab ride to the hostel. We managed to get a cab driver who ...

... very rusty, very broken espaņol, I asked a man how to get to Las Ramblas. After a few repeat explanations and very animated hand gestures, we got the gist of it and set off. We found it easily, plain as day.
Las Ramblas was amazing. And amazing doesnīt even justify it. Thatīs why I lvoe photography. When words escape me and donīt seem to be enough, pictures can capture (most of the time) what the written word canīt get close to. We strolled down the ...

... provoked is just not worth speaking about. On a journey such as this one I wish everything to be natural, I want things to happen because they were just meant to happen, I don't want it to be one of those journeys/trips where paying money and for wearing a colored wrist band makes things happen. I want to see, hear, smell what's really going on in this neck of the woods, no expensive hotels, no fast cars, no ...

... monument is the Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family), begun in 1882. Look up; look across; go by elevator to the top and look down. Until present day work continues on this behemouth. Like all of Gaudíīs work, it is organic and out of oneīs imagination. Jean and I visit Parc Guell, an enchanted forest with mushroom-shaped pavilions, a mosaic dragon and a remarkable rolling ...

... since geeky Vietnamese tourists do little but take pictures when they travel, mostly of each other. Well, my mama didn't raise a fool, not many anyway, so today when I go back out to use wi-fi I'm going to take my hat off and place it conspicuously. This could be a major career move. It'll be short, though. Tomorrow I go to France. I thought about doing a day trip to Andorra just to put another country under my belt, but... well... stay tuned.

... as always, but made sure I went to bed early enough to wake up with the sun.

Wednesday Jan 2nd I woke up early and jumped on the subway to visit Park Guell, which is up in a hilly section of town that reminded me of Valaparaiso. The park was to be a residential neighborhood completely designed by the mastermind Antoni Gaudí until it lost financial backing, and ended up being a failure, albeit one of the most beautiful failures I’ve ever ...

... all "Mes que en club." I signed both Alec and myself up for memberships. For reasons unknown, my application and credit card fee never went through, but Alec's did. The necessary documents arrived at my office in Pennsylvania, got scanned and e-mailed to me in Italy, signed, scanned, and e-mailed back, with Alec's picture (in full Barca team kit) sent in JPG format. As we waited for the membership card to arrive, one game after another went by. We were ...

... like a Faberge egg. This is the Adidas store. It has New York beat, hands down. This is one of the buildings on the Port. Is this little boy imaging he is riding on Aslan through Narnia? A telling mix of modernism in the foreground and deep history in the background. A couple more pictures of the architecture. . . . We took the exciting hygienic and culinary purchases back to ...

... that far under 38+ C degrees just to visit a football stadium. Under the influence of Captain Tsubasa (e??c???f), the Camp Nou was not quite what it ...

... organizes activities at the hostel told me about the pub crawl that night and said I should think about going. Hmm, yeah sure. I canīt think of anything more fun than going out with a huge group of people who will all get extremely drunk, and being the only one sober enough to witness it all. Whoohoo! So of course I ended up going. AH! Didnīt know anyone, but figured it was either sit around the hostel ANOTHER night or go out an maybe meet some people. Long story short. 4 ...