Barcelona

After a week in Valencia (starting with the two festivls below), we moved to Barcelona. We were lucky enough to get a last minute place to stay with a guy from couchsurfing.com . I've had pretty good luck with couchsurfers until now, but his guy was odd. Not creepy odd, just strange odd. He made it clear his flatmates didn't want us to be there, and didn't try to overcome this by telling us what we could and couldn't do, or even introduce us to them! Very odd. He also never wanted to go out with us ever, and then asked why we didn't go out partying. So yeah, we din't want to stay long.

But, Luckily the girl I was traveling with, Monique, knew a guy in Barcelona, Mike, who made up for one persons inhospitability, by showing us around town. The first day we went to Sagrada Familia, which is this church that is still being built. It was started in the 1880's and is expected to finish in the 2030's. The outside facades are completed, but only 4 of the 12 towers are done. It is very cool, I especially liked the fact that the the two sides are completely different, one looks like this:

The passion facade:

The nativity facade:

And yeah, so it was pretty cool. The architect was Gaudi, who also designed a cool park which we went to on our second day in Barcelona. The walk to the top of the park gave a very cool view of Barcelona. It also had some very nice mosiac stuff and a way cool terrace up the top where you can imagine a nice orchestra serenading people! Here's the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Guell it has better photos than I will ever have. And details etc.

The next day.. we trained to Toulouse.