Friday 9th October - Coffee and Metro to Montjuic. We had to be up early as Teo had arranged for the insurance guys and the builder to have a look at the damage to the ceiling from a couple of nights ago. Duly the doorbell rang and although there is a phone we don't know how to work it to open the downstairs door? Eventually a chap and a woman arrived at our door and wanted to see the damage. Knowing we were expecting people Jan asked these two, who spoke no...

Thursday 8th October - All downhill for lunch. We viewed the gatehouses and headed off down the hill to the main road back towards Lesseps metro station. We both felt like a sandwich or a bread roll and ended up with a type of pizza that had cheese and bacon and pineapple on it and it was great. We also had potato bravos and a coffee as we had had our beer back up on the mountain. After lunch we walked all of the way downhill back to our apartment. Most o...

Thursday 8th October - Hansel and Gretel Gatehouses. We left the Gaudi house and wandered our way down the avenue on which were dozens of hawkers with their wares all laid out on canvas sheets trying to make a buck. Same old stuff and same old prices. As we were making our way down we noticed several hawkers quickly pack up their stuff and walk into the trees along the side of the road. We thought that this was a bit funny as we didn't think that they stoppe...

Thursday 8th October - Gaudi's House and the Man Himself. We paid our €7 for old people and went into the house that Gaudi lived in almost till his death in 1926. Gaudi moved into the house with his father and niece in 1906 and after the death of them both Gaudi continued to live there and the Carmelite Nuns assisted him with his domestic chores. The house has three floors and such was Gaudi's attention to detail he designed all of the tiles for both fl...

Thursday 8th October - Casa-Museu Gaudi. The rest of the park is free and is where Gaudi turned his hand to landscape gardening, so we wandered up the pathway towards the house that Gaudi had built for himself. This was to be a show home so that all of the other wealthy people could see the standard of what their money was going to buy. The project was a commercial flop and was abandoned in 1914 but not before Gaudi n his inimitable style created a Disney ty...