Tuesday 6th October - Walk through the doors We had our earphones on and entered the east entrance and WOW. We were not expecting what we saw. The inside and the outside are so different. It is unbelievable and defies description. WOW.

Tuesday 6th October - Queuing for audio sets. Once we had shown our tickets on the tablet we then had to queue up for the audio headsets and they were only allowing 1 person for each party to join the queue for the headsets and even so the queue was very long and took half an hour for us to get ours. Jannie waited not too far away thinking that I was going to need help with her tablet but all was fine. We put on our headsets, pressed 1 and started for the...

Tuesday 6th October - Waiting for our turn to go in. We approached the guard on the gate to get in as we had purchased tickets on line and showed him Jannies tablet and he said that we would have to come back as we had booked for 11.30am and it was only just after 10.30. We walked into the park opposite and took some photos and then sat on a bench under the trees and watched all of the people taking photos of themselves, with selfie sticks!!, getting othe...

Tuesday 6th October - Sagrada Familia We had purchased our tickets for the Sagrada Familia which id Gaudi's most famous work. We had our breakfast and talked with Jane and Paul and then set out down our street to have a coffee before heading to the Metro. The chap in the cafe remembered exactly what we had had yesterday and volunteered to make it again for us but then he asked Jan if she wanted a flat white. When it came she reckoned that she was too scar...

Monday 5th October - Info Centre Department Store and Lunch We finally found the underground information centre and got at the end of a long queue. Just behind us was an Aussie woman who was travelling on her own and we had a great chat with her for the 35 minutes that it took for us to get to the head of the line. We got our tickets and asked about the loos and were directed to the department store across the road and sure enough down in the basement wer...