« Animals On Las Ramblas | Main | Posting Marathon »

July 04, 2008

End of the Road - Barcelona

This entry has the last pictures of Brent's and my entire Europe trip. I would say it's my last Europe entry... but I actually still have half of Rome to post about. For those of you who don't remember from last summer, when Brent and I got to London, the first stop on our post-Rome trip, I decided to skip the rest of Rome until later so that I could keep up to date. Well, I didn't end up keeping up with my entries, considering that it's a whole year later and I'm still catching up, but I'll finish Rome soon and be done with all of Europe!

Anyway, when we were still in Barcelona, we went to the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia, which had a huge open courtyard in the center filled with beautiful palm trees, fountains and lots of geese/ducks:

I'm guessing someone is buried here:

Chandelier:

Diorama of... something:

Ceiling:

Statue behind bars:

Brent in the courtyard:

A goose checking himself out in the pond:

Fountain:

Inside the cathedral:

Gargoyles:

Passeig de Picasso:

After visiting the cathedral, Brent and I stopped for lunch... on a boat! It was a large boat docked in the harbor that was set up with lunch tables and served only tapas:

Here's Brent on the boat; he's smiling even though this is the day he got tonsillitis:

Me on the boat:

On the walk back from lunch, we saw these giant caterpillar nests in the trees:

When I looked back and saw this picture, I realized it's the same kind of tree that we saw in Mexico and thought was so strange!

The one in Mexico:

The next day, Brent and I went to the beach and the boardwalk area to take a few more pictures and look at the Mediterranean for the last time:

I love this picture. America in Barcelona... is this really what they think of us?

Kind of creepy:

This lamp was actually silver, but it's reflecting the ceiling:

While walking down Las Ramblas again, Brent and I saw Woody Allen and Scarlet Johansson filming Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I sent my pictures in to Perez Hilton, but he didn't take them. If you want to read the entry with ALL the pictures I took, CLICK HERE. Otherwise, here are just a couple:

Weird:

There were a lot of weird people on Las Ramblas dressed up trying to get money from people. One of the weirdest ones, however, was a man wearing nothing but body paint. No one seemed to notice except Brent and me. I didn't get his picture though, sorry.

Statues we passed at the beach nearly every day:

The beach:

Brent:

If I remember correctly, I think this guy brought soap to take a bath in the ocean. I figured that gave me the right to take his picture while he was sleeping and post it on the internet:

City, beach, mountains... what more could you want?

Barcelona at night:

For our last night, Brent and I decided to go to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner:

Saxophone Chandelier:

While there, Brent ordered the "Ledgendary Burger" and received much approval from our waiter. I ordered a caesar salad and got a very dirty look. Oh well.

Anyway, it was such an amazing trip and I wish I could go back and do it all over again! Maybe I will some day. For now, I'm going to get caught up on some more recent stuff, then go back to finish up Rome. If you haven't ever been to Barcelona, though, you should get on that right away!

-Lauren

Posted by lauren at July 4, 2008 02:36 PM

Comments

Posted by: G at July 6, 2008 10:23 PM