We had the morning to see some more of Barcelona and decided to see Park Guell, another Gaudi creation which he had set out to be a utopian community but he passed away before it was finished. Just a few metro stops and then it was uphill to the side entrance of the park but luckily the steep street had escalators which ran up the middle! The park was quite busy but a nice place to meander around as it was well maintained and cool in the shade. Some of the struct...

The first stop on the Barcelona Tourist trail today was Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's very different take on church design. At €13 to get in we just had a quick look at the unusual modernist outside before wandering back towards Las Ramblas via the Casa Batllo, another of Gaudi's buildings with a wavey kind of effect on the facade. We continued down into the Barri Gothic area and found some lunch near the cathedral. From here we followed lane ways until we came to t...

Flying to Spain this morning we were up early to take the train to the airport for our 10.10 flight to Barcelona. The hour forty flight, though a few minutes late went smoothly enough & then we were on the train to Sants Station to sort out reservations for our train to Madrid in a few days. Little did we know that we would be sitting on some hard wooden chairs for close to an hour & a half watching numbers tick over excruciatingly slowly until our ticket...