Super chic in Barcelona

Our Market Hotel in Barcelona is just as chic as it appears on the web and for a great price! All in black, red, and white with a very modern take on a chinese theme, it is perfect and quite luxurious. Free green apples and bottled water, free use of a laptop with internet, BBC world news on the flatscreen in our room, and a wonderful restaurant where some of the young and hip Barcelonians come to eat, simply completes the picture.

Barcelona is a great city to visit; lovely markets, an interesting mix of architecture, a nicely developed harbor area, and of course the Ramblas where one can meander through the center of town watching the living art or sit at a cafe watching the world go by.

I am now by myself for the next 10 days and decided to spend one of my remaining days in Barcelona visiting the Gaudi structures, the Pedrera house and La Sagrada Familia - his ornate cathedral begun in 1882 and still being finished today.
There is plenty of shopping here and the price of everything is less than in France, but unfortunately when you are carrying everything on your back, each purchase is additional weight so I have really limited myself. Sorry everyone, there will be no gifts!

I have now been traveling for a month - 2 weeks to go - and so far only 3 days with rain showers. I could not have asked for better weather, so here´s hoping it continues.