Scott and Elise's European Adventurer

We left Australia 1 week ago and have loved every bit of Barcelona.....minus the cold weather! Someone forgot to tell Barcelona that its nearly summer...one day it got down to 11 degrees plus windchill. As you can tell by the name of this blog (4 months of summer!) we weren´t prepared for it and have been freezing our arses off! Our first purchase in Barcelona was an umbrella.

We got off the airport bus in the city and it rained for 3 days, but were not detered and did most of the tourist sights in the first 2 days. We think this was smart as it seems half of Europe came to Barcelona for the Easter long weekend and the queues to everything was v.long.

After doing the main tourist sights we spent a few days exploring the alleyways of the gothic quarter, the port and the shops. The best way to experience a city is definately to just walk around.

Highlights so far:
- Barcelona Futbol Club. We did a tour of the stadium and the dressing rooms. The stadium seats 100,000 and there are 140,000 members of which 90,000 are season ticket holders, so even if there was a match on, we don´t think we would have got tickets. Instead we watched them play in a pub, but they lost, so we don´t think we brought them much luck. It definately is a religion over here...there is even a chapel inside the stadium.

- Sitting in squares having a drink or two at the end of the day watching all the activity.

- Standing on the balcony of our pension and watching the buzz and activity of La Ramblas.

- Getting lost in alleyways.

- The shopping (for Scott who has already taken a liking to Zara)

- Having a good Cafe con Leche in the morning (coffee)

Lowlight so far:
Dropping our camera about 1.5m on our very first day at our very first stop. The zoom was stuffed and the focus wasn´t too crash hot. Cheers travel insurance! We have since bought a new whizbang one that is much better. So I have told Scott that it has turned out to be a GOOD thing that I dropped the camera!

Cold weather. We´re about to fly to Alicante, so are hoping its a bit warmer.

We´ve figured out how to load the pics!