Spanish lessons

Here I am sitting in my hotel room - Jo is getting ready for tonight as we head back into Barcelona for a traditional Spanish evening complete with Flamenico Dancers. I can hear children playing in the courtyard below our room as well as the hustle and bustle of cars, buses and mopeds going about their daily thing. Children are yelling at each other in Spanish (I haven't a clue what they are saying) but I do hear a ball bouncing so they must be yelling "chuck it to me, chuck it to me"!

Barcelona sits on the North East coast of Spain and is quite a large city - about 3 million people live here. Today we went into the main city. We went up to Mont Juic which is where Barcelona held the 1992 Olympics. This small mountian overlooked the city - very nice but smoggy! We also saw the Sagrada Familia which is a large gothic / modern style church that started being built by Goudi back in the early 1900s and they don't expect it to be finished until somewhere in the 2040s! I must say it was something I have never seen before - kinda like a traditional catholic steeple church crossed with something you see out of the smurfs cartoon. I think Goudi must of been eating magic mushies when he started designing this monstrosity.

It was nice today to have the sun out, and walking around the city just with Jo. It was funny - our tour manager told us to try to find a nice cafe to sit and eat some seafood - as the seafood here is world class. As you might know - Jo and I love seafood. Needless to say we found a great little cafe overlooking an old spanish courtyard. Sat down. Picked out a nice seafood dish and pointed to the writing on the menu. THe waitress said, "Si Senore". We earnestly waited. Out came our lovely seafood dish - only to look down at the plate and find - beef meatballs and potatoes????? What the???? Anyways, we ate that instead of trying to send it back with the already confused waitress!

Our tour is nearly coming to an ead as tomorrow we travel to Bordeaux for an overnight stay then to Paris for our last stop. We have made some great friends and it will be sad to leave them!

Oopps - looking at the time - we better hurry off to catch our bus - nice chatting to you!