Gaudi Experience

After placing lots of markers for ourselves about where we might find the famous Gaudi buildings, we walked through basically all of Barcelona in their hunt. And with the careful marker placement, we also found them this time as opposed to only getting close and then missing. You understand why Barcellona would be proud of these kind of creations, if only because everything he designed seems to remind of ice-cream.

Have some extra pictures, because I made far too many today.

With a 20% chance of rain, I packed the umbrella to make sure that that would change into a 0% chance of rain. I seem to have hidden the umbrella a little two well under my bag though as it started pouring very spontaneously in the evening. Which was great, as all of the tourists suddenly disappeared, hiding in dense groups in anything that would provide cover while the crowd that usually tried to sell you Cola and Beer at every corner suddenly all became umbrella salesman. This also meant that instead of fighting for a place at the Magic Fountain, suddenly there was heaps of space. At least, between the people that didn't care anymore and were actively sitting in the puddles.

The Fountain started being an actual fountain with sundown, giving a very boring steady show. After 5 minutes, you could hear everywhere the "Is that it?" and people thinning. At 21:30 however, the thing became its own disco, with an unreal water show. Besides looking like the entire floor of the fountain was covered in nothing but fountain outlets and lights, they also had lots of misting jets that could reach quite high. In connection with some of the jets and, more importantly, the lights, they could make the water look like a flowing plasma. With a camera it's easy to create such an effect using long time exposure, but it was unreal seeing it with a normal eye, and moving!

I also finally got my first properly satisfying meal. After operating on "good enough" for the last few days and yesterdays meal being positively horrible, I finally reached a point where dinner actually filled me. Which makes I think a decent conclusion to this city. Tomorrow we have to get up early and make our long way to the next place. But at least we still get a stunning view from our bed.

P.S.: I usually don't do larger pictures, but I'll make an exception for the below. (3.2MB if you click on it)