Barcelona / Gaudi town - bars, beaches... and of course, the art!

I didn´t love Barcelona as much as I did last time, but it was still amazing.

We stayed at the famous Kabul hostel and have met enough other Aussies to last me the rest of the trip... unlike some others here, we´ve managed to see some sights other than the man-made beach, including La Sagrada Familia (still one of my favourite buildings, even though I can´t really tell what progress has been made in the last 4 years - see above right), the Picasso Museum (fantastic progression of works through his life, despite them moving some of the pieces I wanted to see to the Prado in Madrid!) and the Dali Theatre 2 hours away in Figueres (a wonderful monument to himself in the theatre he had his first exhibition in - see below left).


We finally made it to a salsa club last night, avoiding another night of pub crawls with English-speakers. It was great - some of those on the dancefloor earlier were intimidatingly good dancers, but at around 2am, some guys led an aerobics-type salsa routine and after that, it didn´t matter how you moved...


I´ve had fun, but I loved Barcelona more when it wasn´t the height of tourist season and I had a chance to wander further than a 15m radius from La Ramblas. After about 3 hours sleep, it´s onwards to Valencia and hopefully lots of good food.