Day 26: Mediterranean Time

Date: Wednesday 23rd April
Staying: Camping 3 Estrellas – Barcelona, Spain
Distance Travelled: 0 Miles
Song of the day: She Bangs - Enrique Iglesias (in Spanish, it's much better)

Cam having done what he wanted to do (i.e. Camp Neu), it was my turn to choose something. I chose the Picasso museum for the beginning of our second day in Barcelona. Now, I'm sure many of you know a good deal more about Picasso than I do, but Cam and I were both quite shocked at just how good he was at such a young age - by 13 he was pumping out paintings like an old master. I have to say that neither of us were particularly into his later stuff, but it was an interesting visit nonetheless.

We stopped off for sangria and tapas before taking a swing by the Barcelona Cathedral. Time can somehow get away from you in Spain, and by the time we'd had a leisurely lunch, we were thinking we'd just drop in and take a look for a few minutes. Oh, how wrong we were. We've seen a lot of churches so far on this trip, so it's difficult to pinpoint why this one is different, but somehow it just is. Started in 1298, it features a fantastic outdoor cloister, which was so peaceful and we decided every church should have one. The whole church is in the Gothic style, but is flooded with such a lot of light that it doesn't have quite the same foreboding feel as some Gothic churches.

In the evening, we had a lovely pre-dinner stroll on the beach, then dinner at the campground restaurant (yes, they do have restaurants, and bars, shops, laundries, souvenirs, internet, etc, etc). Life in campsites is interesting - it's like an international community where no-one speaks the same language, you're all living out of a house on wheels, and everyone wears crocs. Yesterday we ran into a British couple who stopped us saying "Hello! We just wanted to say Hello! It's been such a long time since we've said it!" (understandable since it's mostly Spanish and a bit of French in the campsites we've been to so far). So, Hola from Spain, and Adios for now.