Barcelona is a fantastic city, full of surreal architecture (mostly thanks to Mr. Gaudi), great food and the best coffe I've ever tasted (try a cortado sometime). The structure that is La Sagrada Familia is mind blowing, but when I visited, there was still a lot of work underway (as I'm sure there is now), so it didn't have that quiet serenity that cathedrals normally do.
There was another cathedral however, that had a beautiful courtyard where I could have stayed for quite some time. Even these geese seemed to understand the nature of the place and though they strutted around, flapping their plumage, they remained quiet.
I remember sitting outside the cathedral on a bench afterwards, next to a young man who was playing guitar. He pointed out some gypsy kids and gave the instruction to watch as they picked out a target to pickpocket. Everyone knows about the risk of pickpocketing in Barcelona (indeed anywhere really), but it was nice to be warned by a local. I don't think I have any other travel tails from Spain, but this one brings back memories of a country I long to visit again.
what about the little harbour village visited? or buying swimming costumes in Sans Sabastian?
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Fine travel tales yes, but no travel tails there James!
ReplyDeletehow about trying to get rabbies shots because of a 'puppy'?
ReplyDeleteAgain, a fantastic travel tale, but (a) I would need a photo of the puppy, and (b) I would have had to have been the person silly enough to approach a dog in the Philippines (I was silly enough to take in Filipino cats but not dogs!) and thereby need a course of rabies medication requiring finding doctors to inject the vaccine during in Spain! :-)
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