Spent today walking around Barcelona. Those bloody Romans where everywhere. In the centre of Barcelona is an old Roman fortified city. While walking around the old city there was an old lady singing opera, it was really haunting and quite beautiful hearing her voice bounce off the walls of the surrounding buildings.
We also visited the Sagrada Familia, an old gothic chapel. The design and construction was done by someone called Gaudi, who is something of a local legend. He became that obsessed with making this particular church perfect that he fired every one and continued the construction on his own, creating hundreds of sculptures and scenes all on his own that now adorn the church. During the first and second world wars, when Spain was in its own civil war, work on the church stopped. Somewhere in that period Gaudi died leaving his work unfinished. In recent the Spanish government established a special group to finish Gaudi’s work. The new additions to the church while similar to Gaudi’s work don’t seem to fit the best.
While walking around the city I wandered into the local markets. From the moment I walked in I was salivating at the sight of all the preserved meats and sausages as well as all the fresh fruit and veg. Luckily later on I got to have some tapas and paella for lunch.
Later on go the evening we were treated to a Flamenco dancing demonstration before heading to Post Olympico for dinner.
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