Barcelona comes highly recommended from pretty much everyone. A mixture of interesting Gaudi Architecture, it's seaside location, the huge range of dining on offer and the Sagrada Familia makes for a pretty welcoming holiday spot! A few pics below from our wanderings around the Spanish city below.
Tapas menu - lots of seafood like cuttlefish and squid
The yarn is that Tapas originated by decree from Spanish King Alfonso the 10th. The field workers would break for lunch and would drink wine which was cheap and often safer than water. In the afternoon these workers would return to the fields and the productivity would drop off completely as most were drunk! The King decreed that no wine is to be served unless accompanied by something to eat to counteract the effects of alcohol.
Tapas lunch
Spanish omelette, tomato breads melted cheese with nutty coating on sticks with jam
Tasty
Gaudi Architecture - no straight lines on this building
La Rambla - busiest street in Barcelona, lots of street performers etc
Sagrada Familia (Cathedral) - it has been in construction for the past 200 years
Raise the roof - Construction ongoing on the Sagrada Familia
Park Guell - mosaic seats. A Gaudi residential project that never took off. It's become quite a tourist attraction due to the unusual mosaic clad buildings and street furniture designs.
Entrance buildings to Park Guell. White mosaic roof tops
Barca football graffiiti
The magic fountain plays a 30 minute show in the evening from 10pm
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