Barcelona!
What a surprise! We did not know what to expect of the city and were so impressed. So clean, easy to get around in and stylishly modern with a great historical center.
We went to Spanish school each morning to learn some of the language and then spent the afternoons wandering the town. We stayed with a lady and ate breakfast and dinner with her each day in order to practice our Spanish. She didn´t speak any English and took incredible care of us and cooked incredible seafood meals. She was hilarious and it was a lot of fun to chat with her everyday. She was like our Grandma.
Gaudi--where we get the word "Gawdy" is an architect who designed many modern buildings in Barcelona. Some are "Gawdy" a mishmash of every style. Other like La Pedrara are incredible apartment buildings designed to follow the curving lines of nature and allow in as much light as possible.
The last day we were there we went to a monastery north of Barcelona and climbed up some of the rocky cathedral like spires that dominate the region. This is where the Virgen Negro (Black Virgin) the patron saint of Catalonia was found hundreds of years ago. It is a sacred place for many and visited by many pilgrims.
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