Barcelona

Next stop, Barcelona! What a great city. Heaps of great bars, restaurants and just a great vibe except for the serious threat of pick-pockets. Hi Kiran if you're reading:)

Here's a picture of Nate with one of the many random sculptures around the city. It's kinda like Berlin here with all the cool art. Imagine if you put this in Perth! People would be carrying on about wasting tax payers' money forever. People still hate the Bell Tower right? Haha

Here's a picture of Barcelona's number one tourist attraction which they are still trying to finish apparently.

We also walked around to see a bit more of Gaudi's stuff. Does this city have a lot to thank that guy for?! Here's a picture at Park Guell...

Anyway the best thing to do in Spain is probably eat tapas so here we go. This one is Salmon, Sashimi style...

Cured tuna. Absolutely amazing...


Some green stuff...

Scallops...


Cod fritters...


Iberian pork with green peppercorn sauce (and petals!)...

And Chocolate in three textures or some fancier sounding name. Chocolate ice-cream with chocolate sauce and a chocolate brownie, covered in olive oil. Interesting. Not bad. Would probably skip the olive oil next time.

We also did a day trip out to Sant Sadurni which is where they make Cava (the Spanish equivalent of Champagne). As per Champagne itself, everything closes down during the day for a few hours, and most things are only available by appointment so we ended up just doing the tour at Freixenet which is one of the largest producers. You may have seen the black bottle before?


Here's some pictures outside the winery. They had a car shaped like a bottle and a truck shaped like a cork. Genius!

Oh yeah, and we went to see the Magic Fountain too which is up at Montjuic. It's a fountain that has a light and music show at night. Pretty cool...