ewilliams216: Pre-packing!
ewilliams216: My balcony view of the Palau de la Musica Catalan!
ewilliams216: 21 hours after leaving home, I arrived at my wonderful pension in Barcelona.
ewilliams216: My street
ewilliams216: Great street art next to a community garden.
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ewilliams216: My first tapas in Spain, on a lovely little plaza.
ewilliams216: Local sweet shop with enormous merengues.
ewilliams216: No idea what these sweets are. They look like pretty kitchen sponges.
ewilliams216: Palau de la Generalitat. The seat of Barcelona government.
ewilliams216: A glimpse of the Catedral de Barcelona
ewilliams216: My first Gaudi! Casa Batllo.
ewilliams216: The lovely Plaza Reial looks just like Puerto Rico or Mexico, or, you know, the opposite.
ewilliams216: Walking tour through the narrow maze of the Barri Gotic.
ewilliams216: The sun-filled leafy plaza outside the Church of Sant Felip Neri, where Gaudi came to pray every day.
ewilliams216: Thirteen guard geese at Saint Eulalia's Church.
ewilliams216: El Call, the old Jewish Quarter.
ewilliams216: A favorite bit of street art
ewilliams216: Ancient and modern in the Barri Gotic.
ewilliams216: Lots of great street art in Barcelona
ewilliams216: Picasso-designed mural.
ewilliams216: Eternal flame in honor of Catalan resistance fighters.
ewilliams216: The special, fuzzy-skinned tomate de cagar, used only for pan amb tomaquet.
ewilliams216: Barcelona street tiles.
ewilliams216: Good morning, Barcelona! Starting my culinary walking tour with a glass of cava and delicious botifarra sausage on a warm baguette.
ewilliams216: Muchos olives.
ewilliams216: Local eggs at Mercat de l'Albeceria Central in Gracia.
ewilliams216: Catalan pride. And smoking.
ewilliams216: A plaque in the Gracia neighborhood commemorating an impressive castel last summer- the Catalan human tower.
ewilliams216: L'Anxoveta in Gracia.