Barcelona

Barcelona's a great city. European cities tend to have two things American cities don't have -- really narrow steets, and really wide boulevards. I like the former and dislike the latter, and sometimes I think that how much I like a city has to do with whether or not I'm in a narrow area or wide one. I was in a narrow one in Barcelona, hence, liked it. But, honestly, what's not to like. They have beaches, and pedestrian "ramblas," and very pretty architecture, some of which was not even designed by Gaudi. By the way, I assume this has been said before, but Pan's Labyrinth definitely has some Gaudi echoes in the design of the dream-world, although I'd have to see it again to confirm, and I'm not so sure I want to.

The weather's good too, and Barcelona is apparently all about being arty. I'm not, but it's cool with me if other people want to, so long as they don't spend a lot of time talking about it. In Barcelona, it was hard to tell the difference between shoe stores and art galleries, and even the graffiti adorning shop shutters looked pretty cool. They also have a walkway that basically seems to be an excuse to walk into the sea with cool lights


Apparently, Barcelona resurged after the Olympics, and did things like put sculptures up everywhere. One was a giant cat.