Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Spain - Catalonia Region

The most famous city in the Catalonia region of Spain is Barcelona. We only spent couple days there, however. It seems that everyone in Europe decided to visit Barcelona at the same time we did. We did manage to see the Antoni Gaudi buildings, built in the late 1800´s to early 1900´s, such as -

La Sagrada Familia church:
Parc Guell entrance:

La Pedrera building:

This is the Christopher Columbus monument by the waterfront:

We rented a car for ten days. I love having a car because it gives us so much more flexibility (and I don´t have to lug my backpack around). From Barcelona, we drove northwest to Valle D´Aran, in the Pyrenees mountains that separate Spain from the rest of Europe. Beautiful mountains and meadows abound, where we hiked to small mountain villages. In Spain, even the smallest of villages has at least a medieval outhouse.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Bill wearing a wifebeater? It would go perfectly with a 'stache. Come on man!

Anonymous said...

Renting a car is definitely a good way to get around. We did that in Italy. Of course we were constantly lost and we did have some memorable arguments while driving....hope you guys have a better sense of direction than we did!

Kathy

Jeeheon said...

Susan - We bought that shirt for $2 at a supermarket in Costa Rica - Bill loves that shirt.

Kathy - Driving around Spain was a lot of fun! I made Bill promise that when we retire (for real when we are old), we will come to Europe and drive everywhere for three months.