We decided to go to Barcelona to get out of France for a while. It was nice although extremely confusing to hear spanish again. For awhile at the beginning we kept saying 'Merci' instead of 'Gracias'. The week before our lovely english teacher had us do research projects on the architecture of Barcelona, which, as much as I hate homework, made the trip more interesting. My project was on Antonio Gaudi, so we went and visited some of his buildings, the most famous of which is the Sagrada Famillia, which is an incredible cathedral built with a lot of spires. It looks like it should technically not be able to stay up. We also visited a couple of his apartment buildings which would be pretty cool to live in. We saw a housing complex he was going to build but never finished, which has been turned into a park and has a view of the whole of Barcelona.
I will remember: having a good time eating lots of tapas and chorizo, going to the Barcelona beach, and trying to figure out how to tell a taxi driver where we wanted to go.
We decided to go to Barcelona to get out of France for a while. It was nice although extremely confusing to hear spanish again. For awhile at the beginning we kept saying 'Merci' instead of 'Gracias'. The week before our lovely english teacher had us do research projects on the architecture of Barcelona, which, as much as I hate homework, made the trip more interesting. My project was on Antonio Gaudi, so we went and visited some of his buildings, the most famous of which is the Sagrada Famillia, which is an incredible cathedral built with a lot of spires. It looks like it should technically not be able to stay up. We also visited a couple of his apartment buildings which would be pretty cool to live in. We saw a housing complex he was going to build but never finished, which has been turned into a park and has a view of the whole of Barcelona.
The photo of the roof of a church (the Sagrada Familia?) is absolutely awesome! I think someone is trying to have the architect canonized but I am not perfectly sure and I don't know if it would make any sense. I don't think you get canonized for building an incredible building. Also I heard some of it burned. True? Did you see any damage?
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