Barcelona

Here's part II of our trip.  Here's Part I, and here's just a couple of my favorite pictures that I posted last week 

After a few days in London, we flew to Barcelona.  I panicked a little at the airport, looking at the signs.  I read Spanish reasonably well, but the signs weren't making any sense to me.  I thought my Spanish was much rustier than what I expected.  Then I realized that most of the signs were in Catalan.  Phew.  Not quite so rusty!  Even though it's a Spanish dialect, reading the signs really threw me for a bit. 

I loved Barcelona.  It is a really beautiful city.  We walked all over the city...and only got a little lost! 

La Rambla

La Sagrada Familia

Palau Nacional/ Montjuïc

Estadi Olímpic in the reflection, Montjuïc

La Boqueria

Columbus Monument

Parc Güell

Parc Güell and La Sagrada Familia were designed by Antoni Gaudí.  Look him up if you want to see some seriously funky architecture.  Parc Güell was really fun.  

Parc Güell

Parc Güell

and maybe my favorite Barcelona picture, also Parc Güell:

London, Stonehenge and Avebury

Big Ben

Westminster Abbey

The London Eye

From inside the London Eye

Cleopatra's Needle

Beautiful blue skies in London?  Yes, please.

White Tower

At the Tower of London

The hubs in Windsor.  (He hates the word "hubs", by the way)

Stonehenge

Henge at Avebury

Avebury

Silbury Hill

Avebury

Trafalgar Square at Midnight

Somerset House

My husband and I just spent a few days in London, before heading to Barcelona for a week.  It was great.  We met his mom and step dad in London, saw the sights, saw a couple of shows, stayed in a great hotel right on the Thames, practiced my night time photography, then spent a day driving in the English countryside to see Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and it's sister site at Avebury.  

I thought Avebury was really interesting.  It's a huge place...much, much larger in scale than Stonehenge, but not as complete.  It has a huge trench circle surrounding it and there is a very cute little village that was built partially inside the circle.  I loved the church there.  You can walk all along the trench and through the standing stones.  Silbury Hill is nearby and is a giant neolithic mound with no known purpose.  

The English countryside is gorgeous.  I'm pretty sure I would move there without hesitation.  

I'm Home...

...from playing here...

{London}

And here...

{Barcelona}

...and I just want to go back, ASAP!  

It was a blast.

{More pictures are sure to follow...}