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... m sticking to it. As it's been such a long time this latest post will focus on a period known to me as B.E. (before Ellen) and later you shall hear of A.E. (which you should be able to guess).

Well, I set off Sunday two weeks ago (17th) having been cycling for six days straight and with the firm intention of finding a nice campsite to spend a day resting. As such I headed back up into the hills and enjoyed a day of fine weather and ...

... had a tough time figuring out the original intentions of Gaudi. Many Spaniards today are not sure if the work is going along the directions of the master architect. After the visit to the Sagrada Familia we took a short walk to another building by one of Gaudi's contemporaries, Lluis Domenech i Montaner. The Sant Pau hospital. After visiting the works of both these famous architects we decided to head back home and make plans for the evening. Plans for the ...

... pops out to scare her (and Janice!). Everybody laughs, she starts bawling. Its sad, and I run over to comfort her. Janice later tells me she thinks Ella was crying not out of fear, but because everybody laughed. Poor little thing. She is SO sensitive to what other people think about her. If somebody tells a joke at her expense, she just melts. Breaks my heart. ... Anyhow, back to La Rambla ... Sam is laughing like a maniac out of fear, but every time he gets close to donating ...

... not to be able to read them, but heartening that Spanish translations had started to look comfortingly familiar. We bought muffins and ate them on the beach - 'your birthday cake', Mark said. For our first day we wandered around the Gothic quarter, up and down the main pedestrian street called La Rambla and out to the sea walkway. Like everyone does, we found Barcelona very attractive, with cute alleys, wide boulevards, leafy streets and window ...

... Montjuic for great aerial views of the city and I wondered the old streets discovering a lively tapas bar on calle Argenteria where a huge array of every kind of tapas were presented along the bar...you help yourself and pay the 1.50 euros per tapas at the end. A good old fashioned trust system which worked for staff and clientele alike...no queues no fuss. I sampled three tapas and a beer - my total bill less than 10 euros. I walked into the early ...

... around for Chile, you’ll be depressed to find out that yes, I am incredibly dedicated to writing these darn things because they are my diary.

So, if you feel like you are getting to know me better because you read these, then you should be weirded out because you are getting to see the inner workings of my brain. Actually I find that sometimes I don’t actually think about these things that I write, it just sort of comes out. Weird, yeah I ...

... doesn't work ha ha..Anyway its gotten better now since we recently went to a Spanish cooking class so now we are cooking all the authentic Spanish dishes. When i finally come home I'm making tapas, pialla and sangria for everyone! So be there or be square!

Happily we left the Auberg hostel and moved on to Pension Fernando: much better. We set out on a route which would allow us to see a bunch of Gaudi buildings. Truly, Gaudi designs are amazing: such flowing lines, so many colours, so organic. Gaudi always contended that artificiality in design should be shunned: nature is colorful and fluid, why shouldn't buildings also be so? Most impressive was ...

... the middle of the square, out side, leading up to an old castle, there were escalators. What a wonderful country. We went out again that night after sleeping off our bad feeling. It was near the end of my trip, and the last city nate debbie and I would be in, so we had to have some fun. The second night was spent at another area that I can't even begin to describe. Our initial plan was to head to a pricy nice bar, but then they wanted 18 euros to get in. 18!!! No frickin way ...

... Barcelona with the color film I have left. I also have a lot of black and white film, which is going to be a nice thing to use for the old fashioned buildings and streets. I have three days to indulge in, with one probably turning into a day trip to Granada. No museums... that's Madrid. I am very excited. I will try to see a bullfight here... I heard that they were the most unique in this city because this is where the culture of bullfighting was born. I will ...