Hey everybody! sorry I haven't written for a while, we've been really busy so I'm a couple weeks behind. I've had to rush these posts a little just to get back up to speed but I hope you enjoy them!
Wow, I finally finished 1984 bringing my total of
books competed up to six on this trip. But what an incredible book! In my opinion
all members of the United States government should read it before being allowed
to run for office. Next on the reading list is Bill Bryson’s “Neither here nor
there” and Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”.
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| the HUGE indoor Marquette a short walk away from our apartment. |
Today we signed up for a tour of the city or rather
a historical walk focusing on the 1937-1939 civil war in the Iberian Peninsula
and into the Fascist rule under General Francisco Franco. My head is buzzing
right now with everything he shared with us and if I remember ¼ of it ill be very pleased. Apart from the
three of us and our English guide (Nick) there were 4 Scotts, 3 Irish and a
couple from some where in the E.U. there were all incredibly nice people but (especially
the Scott’s) were nearly impossibly to understand. It was almost a four hour
long tour so at the end we all went to “La Libertad” coffee bar for a bight to
eat and too study their old civil war propaganda posters. Spain has such a
festinating yet bloody history and I don’t think any one person could
understand it thoroughly.
Tomorrow we’ll be leaving Barcelona bright and early around 5 in the morning if all goes according to plan. Its too bad, I wish we could stay another couple of days, this is one of those few places where I could see myself coming to live some day. I guess it’s a good back up plan if Mitt Romney becomes president! (it’s a toss up between here and Canada).
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| Propaganda posters from the Spanish civil war. |
Tomorrow we’ll be leaving Barcelona bright and early around 5 in the morning if all goes according to plan. Its too bad, I wish we could stay another couple of days, this is one of those few places where I could see myself coming to live some day. I guess it’s a good back up plan if Mitt Romney becomes president! (it’s a toss up between here and Canada).
Oh and one last thing I forgot
to mention. Yesterday (the day after the visit to Sagrada Familia) we visited
the Picasso museum here, it was amazing to see how much his artwork changed
throughout his life, I heard someone say that: When he was young he learned to
paint as an adult and as an old man he learned to paint like a child.
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| The neighborhood Cathedral |
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