Fresh seafood on the Barceloneta!
The beach! The Mediterranean!
Fresh pizza :D
New Year’s Eve in Placa Catalunya!
We got interviewed for TV!
My birthday dinner- fresh seafood paella with cuttlefish ink. SO GOOD.
Barcelona’s cathedral.
The light was beautiful!!!
At the top of the cathedral!
Random wire sculpture… interesting.
So much bottled water… with gas… and good.
Outside of the cathedral.
Casa Batllo! WEIRD.
Yep… the roof of Casa Batllo.
The roof, again.
The attic of Casa Battlo.
Gotta love Antoni Gaudi’s architecture.
This is pretty cool- the middle of the house had a huge shaft from the first floor to the top floor with a skylight at the top to let in natural light. He had the tile’s color actually get darker as they went up the wall… the more intense sunlight at the top would make the darker tiles there look roughly the same color at the lighter tiles at the bottom with less sunlight. Very cool.
To simulate the ocean…
Lighter tiles at the bottom.
The window looking out to the boulevard.
The facade of the house.
A vegetarian restaurant that we ate at…. SO GREAT!
Some of the best public Christmas lights I’ve seen in a long time. (Rome still wins, though.) They had a building that was literally sparkling the entire night.
Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia… a cathedral still being built (and still just as bizarre) today. Bizarre. Very bizarre.
La Sagrada Familia
Arc de Triomf
Sweet organic cotton children’s clothes store.
More bottled water… this time from Catalonia/Catalunya/Catalan :D
A building on the train ride from Valencia to Barcelona.
First breakfast. So good.
I am now officially a coffee addict. I can’t live without it.
Amazing seafood stew.
Peppers from Pedron. SO GOOD.
La Rambla
Valencia Nord Train Station
An old bullfighting stadium in Valencia
PIZZA. WARM PIZZA. Served on Swiss Air. Two hour flight. BEST AIRLINE EVER.
TAP Portugal. Also a GREAT airline.
Breakfast in Zurich. Yes, this is breakfast in an airport. This makes me want to move to Switzerland tomorrow.
Leaving IAD
