I hope you've enjoyed my brief photo tour of Barcelona! I must have at least 2GB of photos--I think I've learned owning a DSLR also makes you snap-happy--but don't worry, I won't subject you to the rest. (I'm not even sure I have enough energy to organize them myself...) For now, though, I'll leave with my absolute favorite part of Spain: the food ( Read more... )

Usually on vacations I try to schedule a day trip; it's a relaxing change of pace, and best of all (especially during family trips), there's a travel guide taking care of all the details. While in Barcelona, we were able to book two day trips: one to Girona and the beach towns of Costa Brava, and one to Figueres and Cadaques, which are both places ( Read more... )

I've been fortunate to visit a fair number of historic cathedrals--they're hard to escape in Europe!--but the Sagrada Familia is definitely the most surreal. Its mood seems to shift depending on which detail comes into focus: sometimes it's sombre, other times it's joyful, and other times it's peaceful and serene. Gaudi poured all of his energy and ( Read more... )

Barcelona is beautiful. I’d been to Spain once before during college, but only to Madrid and Andalusia (the cities of Córdoba, Sevilla, Granada); I found myself surprised by how wonderfully different Barcelona was-and not just because of the fact that Barcelonians speak Catalán, not Spanish (although I learned they are not only bilingual, if not ( Read more... )