Day 17 Barcelona

Arriving at Barcelona is like advancing 500 years from Morocco. Beautiful clean city with wide boulevards, excellent traffic control, and lots of pretty people. When we checked in to our hotel we used their computer to buy tickets to Sagrada Familia. It is a monstrous church built by the Spanish architect Gaudi. We explored the city a little bit in the evening – walked down to Plaza Catalunya, the Ramblas, Passeig da Gracia until we were too tired to walk. In the morning we set out to visit the Sagrada Familia cathedral. It is an unbelievable big, weird structure. After our tour, we trie do take the tour of another Gaudi structure – Casa Batilo – but the line for tickets was too long so we gave up and went to lunch in a very nice and modern Cerveseria Catalunya. We tried to get into it the previous night for dinner, but it was mobbed. We had some great tapas and wine and then walked down the Rambla back to our hotel for a little rest.