Barcelona Day 2

Today was the first proper day in Barcelona with Matt and JMur, and it is an amazing place. The architecture is unlike any city I've been to. Our first destination was JMur's choice of Barcelona FC's Camp Nou. It's a pretty impessive stadium, and instead of going for a tour of the place we discovered that tonight a match was being played, for which there was still tickets left. After buying them we got on one of the tour buses and saw some of the sights. I was so pleased to see Casa Battlo and Casa Mila, two of Antoni Gaudi's most famous buildings. This meant a lot to me as all through art at high school, whenever I had to do a design project I would study Gaudi. I have a huge fascination for his work and seeing the buildings in person was incredible. However, afterwar these we went to the Sagrada Familia; Gaudi's still-in-progress masterpiece. It's been a wish of mine to visit it for years but to actually fulfill it was mind-blowing. Even with the main, larger spires as yet non-existent, it is an awe-inspiring sight. It's so intricately carved all over, inside and out, and on a scale that shows how it has taken 130 years and is still incomplete. It was a completely surreal moment sitting at the foot of it eating a subways. A further tour of the City lead us back to the stadium for the Barcelona v. Hercules match. Even though I'm not hugely into football it was a great atmosphere and the stadium was enormous. Barcelona unexpectedly lost 2-0 but it was still an awesome experience. Tomorrow is planned to be more sightseeing before we see Manowar live: ridiculously excited.