Growing Up Gaudi...

Have had a great last 2 days in the little town of Barcelona...I think the best thing is that with just wandering around you are absolutely going to run into the most incredible things in Barcelona which is what happened to Shiloh and myself, and today, just me...yesterday, we went for a walk and came upon the Park Guell...a utopian development by Gaudi built near the beginning of the 20th century...you can visit it on the Internet and although I had heard of it before, we just sort of happened upon it on a day when we had no real plans...I wish it was something that I could have seen when I was 12...but still amazing at 28...the whole area that it is in, sort of makes you feel like Oliver Twist...like you will always only look in on the grandeur...but I was very okay with this too...we wandered around some trendy, but side streets, Shiloh had some wine and we just walked and walked where we came upon another amazing Gaudi creation, El Pedrera, an apartment block...we also went and saw a movie...the beginning was Vietnamese with Spanish subtitles...now that was a challenge! After this went home for another movie with our host and stayed up till 4 in the morning laughing at the disaster on the TV screen...

Today, got up muy late, had a lunch of dress-it-yourself falafel and then walked down to the water for the first time. It was about 15 or 16 degrees we figured, with sun and not a cloud in the sky...of course, we forgot our cameras, so have no proof for our Canadian friends.. After this, Shiloh and I went our separate ways and I spent a few hours walking along the beach after being enticed by the sound of crashing waves from some of the side-streest I was on...I watched the surfers make a go of it for awhile, and got kicked off some "dangerous" rocks by the police...which was a shame because it was the point that you could sit out on almost over top of the water and feel the splash of the waves...oh well...after this, just continued to wander and eventually made my way to the Las Ramblas where I met some Calgarians ( I know that neutral Canadian accent anywhere) and a Moraccan and we shared a pitcher of Sangria...perfect way to end a warm, sunny day...

A Gaudi link to some images...I think that he is the perfect meld of a child´s imagination that most of us lose and the math side that I was always missing...

http://images.google.es/images?hl=es&q=Gaudi&sa=N&tab=wi

Adios everyone...