This morning's bright sun beckoned - go to the beach, the beach... So, after Kim's huevos magnifico we headed to the Barceloneta Beach where Marika, Will and Bruce set foot on a Mediterannean beach for the first time in our lives. Then we headed to Montjuic - the site of the 1992 Summer Olympics (one of the 5 Olympic sites we will be near this trip...). We toured the Pablo Espanyol which was built for the 1920 world exposition, and to create it architects and planners visited 1,600 Spanish towns to recreate buildings from each of Spain's regions. In art galleries in the Pablo we saw some wonderful regional art including some by Miro who has been a fave of mine since my early twenties. Kim and I delighted in Will and Marika spending an hour
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