Barcelona wandering

We made it! We are in Barcelona with three days of sightseeing in front of us. After checking into our hostel (Casa Gracía, in case you are heading this way) Laurie and I decided to take a walk to shake off the long cramped plane ride and try to stay awake until nighttime. That little walk became about five miles as we walked up and down alleys and through Plaça de Catalunya.

 

We wrapped up our walk with a lovely late (for us, not for Barcelona) dinner around 9:30 and fell into bed. Wednesday we will explore some of Gaudi's works, but here is a taste.

Vacation!

Wow, I have not written anything here for eight years!  I mean I have half-written a handful of drafts, but nothing worth publishing.  In some of them I apparently drifted off midsentence.  I would like to pretend that this isn't like me, but...

So after debating cutting ties with this blog and starting a new one, I decided to stick with this one.  My path still takes strange and interesting twists, so it seems worthwhile to stick with the twisting path.  So here we go.

I am heading off on vacation tomorrow, the longest vacation of my adult life.  Three whole weeks!  My friend Laurie and I have loaded up our backpacks with less than the 10 kg we are allowed, and tomorrow we fly to Barcelona.  When we have had our fill we head to Italy to go all the places.  Okay not *all* the places, but as many as we can reasonably see in 15 days.

In other news, I handled my shopping at Chavez Market completely in Spanish this week, so clearly I'm ready for Spain.  Italy on the other hand...the only words I know in Italian are "pizza" and "gelato."  Of course maybe that's all I need :-)

I will try to post pictures and travel stories as we come across connection to the internet.

Here we go!