Barcelona

Our first stop in our two week tour of Spain and it was a bit of a shock for me. After spending close to two months in Italy, you get used to seeing very old buildings and infrastructure, but Barcelona is a very modern city and very different from Italy. But a good different, I just needed to adjust to a completely new culture. 

We spent 4 nights/5 days there and had a lot of fun. We rented an apartment away from the tourist area and spent a lot of time walking around in some of the different areas and relaxing. Arnold really wanted to go to a show in one of those old theatres so we bought tickets to what we thought would be an older man playing guitar (according to the posters we saw), but ended up seeing a Spanish rock show. LOL But it was really cool and great to see (plus the theatre the show in was amazing). Their fans were awesome and LOVIN' the show - especially this guy who must have been their number one fan. We also did a stroll along the beach and wow, we definitely aren't in Canada anymore - I didn't realize people suntanned naked on the beach - like full on naked on a public beach. All of the sudden topless tanning doesn't seem  so bad - I think it should be mandatory that bottoms be kept on (yes, we saw a man that had no shorts on).

Arnold and I both think that who ever did the city planning for that city is a genius, we love the layout and they have a great Metro system. In the area were were in, all of the blocks were octagon shape vs square. I'm not sure if it makes driving difficult, but we thought it was fantastic (we saw an aeriel picture of it and it looked so cool - google it and see what I mean).

All in all, Barcelona was great - we are spending one more night there before we leave and I am definitely looking forward to heading back there.

Love Melissa and Arnold