Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Barcelona otra vez


One of the raised walking paths at Parque Guell in Barcelona. Gaudi park essentially!

La Sagrada Familia is HUGE, unfinished, and in the end will have two more towers twice as tall as those in the photo now!

Inside La Sagrada Familia.

Casa Battlo. I want this house!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Barcelona

Olympic Stadium!!!! and me!!!
Castle is in the background of the sweet looking flower.
Olympic Museum of Sport!!! They had sweet mugs around....but I never found a gift shop to buy one.

Luke and I are now in Barcelona, Spain. We got up at 3 AM (8 pm central time i believe) in order to leave by 4 to get to the airport Hahn (far north of Frankfurt) by 540 to get in line for our plane that left at 640. Flying Ryan Air was an interesting experience. Not having an assigned seat was ok. What almost got really really really annoying was the guys directly behind us leading cheers on the plane. I can only guess that they were soccer related. I think they spoke German. Fortunately they quieted down during the flight though there were a few cheers as we started landing. We landed in Girona, Spain and left the airport to find the buses to Barcelona...which was easy! So was getting into and around Barcelona! Itś nice to be in a foreign city and be able to get around easily and not worry about getting back before dark or youĺl get robbed (Venezuela...).

Today, we visited an awesome market, Castle Montojic, took the cable car up the hill to see it, went to the Olympic Museum of Sport, Olympic Stadium, and Contemporary Art Museum of Catalonia. We covered a lot of ground in one afternoon. Restuarant hours havent corresponded at all with Luke and Iś stomachs so weve always ended up just walking until we find something acceptable thatś open. Hopefully tomorrow goes better!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Deutschland - 1

Man playing accordian for money in downtown Obereussel
The sky cleared for a moment so we headed up the mountain to get a view of the entire city...but bz the time we got there it was all foggz again and the gates of some huge militarz looking thing were frostz! z=y bz the waz


Paul! We ate dönner! Kind of like a gzro


downtown Obereussel




Char and Jana