Barcelona

A weekend Jaunt in Barcelona!

• Meet up with Melissa
• Meet up with high-school friend Danielle Witt
• Night on the town-its warm!
• Gauidi Architecture is sweet
• Especially Sagrada Familia
• Watch Barcelona-Real Madrid game in a giant bar and Barcelona wins!
• Catalans being Catalans (think southerners cerca 1858 minus the whole slavery thing)
  
• 12 hour travel time to get home...

So a succesful weekend in Barcelona a week ago as you can see from the bullet points. Getting to see melissa was of course wonderful and always a highlight. Although i hate to admit it seeing danielle was kinda nice to. Wandering Barcelona with melissa as a guide we had a great view of the great 'melting icecream' archetecture of antonin gaidi, which i really liked after being inundated by romenesque and baroque for 3 months!



The real highlight was watching the Real Madrid-Barcelona soccer game from a massive bar in Barcelona-and having barca win. They just plain went nuts. Its like a yankies-red sox times 100 plus national pride at stake. After the game everyone stormed las ramblas (think park blocks) and started singing catalan songs and everything. The Catalonians really do think of themselves as different, mostly because they speak a bastard language of Spanish and french which is legible just frustrating.


Then i got back on the bus and overnighted it down to madrid and took the train-quite exciting.

All in all a great weekend!
full pics: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=165227&id=563922118&l=d9bc07b7d0