Everything is a little dirtier and more lived in, washing on the balconies overhanging the streets, people seem more alive and a little crazier, food I love to eat and really good smells. Spain is quite a reality change after weeks in Scandinavia and the Alps. Southern Europe suits my soul, expressive hand waving and warmer weather. It feels like a great mixture of Southern Italy and Greece. Barcelona got me moving today, I ran around like a woman possesed, the highlight for me being the Gaudi architecture. He was the main attraction for me to visit this city, his style inspired Art Noveau building of the early 1900s so I headed straight for Palau Guell, a palace he designed that was a great example of his crazy mosaic chimneys, then on to the unfinished La
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