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...

Thursday 8th October - Park Guell by Metro. All of the drips had stopped in the morning and we had breakfast and then we wandered up the road to have a coffee before getting the Metro for just one stop before we tackled the hill up to Park Guell. There were even three sets of escalators to help us up the steepest bits and we stopped to catch our breaths at St Joseph's Church. This was built to acknowledge Joseph as everything else everywhere was in memory o...

Wednesday 7th October - The Born Area to Catalunya Metro Station. We had skirted through part of this area a couple of days ago and wanted to have another looksee. The area is all pedestrian ways and full of all sorts of shops and cafes. I tried on a couple of pairs of shoes and hold me back they both fitted and I bought myself a pair of Spanish shoes. Now the backpack was heavy and we were out of the wind and it was getting hotter by the minute. We were sud...

Wednesday 7th October - Off to the beach for Lunch and Maybe a Swim? We got up out of the Metro Station and walked the wrong way but soon enough we turned around and headed back down past the port and past all of these restaurants along the Mall de la Barcelonetta. There had to be 50 of them one after the other all touting for business. Around the corner at the end and here was the beach and also the wind. We found an eatery right on the sand and sat one ...