Man about town...

Today, we decided to do the tourist thing in a big way. For 20 euros you can get a two day pass for the tourist bus which, pretty much, takes you to everything you´d want to see in barcelona.Today we did museums. We started at the Museu Nacional d´art de Catalunya.Beautiful place. The buiding was constructed for the 1929 international exhibition and looks more like a palace than it does a museum. It was 6 euros to get in and well worth it. They happen to have the largest collection of Romanesque and Gothic religious art on the planet. Awesome. I was wishing for an audio tour in English though because I´m not as hip as I should be to Christian Iconography and Symbology. Cool collections anyway.

After we grew tired of seeing depictions of Saints being tortured in every way imaginable (dude, Santa Lucia had it rough, that´s all I´m sayin´), we decided to get on the bus and completely shift art gears and visit the Miro foundacion. Great place if you are a fan of Joan Miro, and we are, so, it was cool. I´d only ever seen two or three pieces by Miro and was floored by his prolific output and the range of media that he worked in. They have everything from textiles to sculpture to a huge amount of his paintings and sketches. It was great fun to really get a chronological understanding of his career. Also, I had a cheese sandwich. (bocadillo con queso).

Three hours in the Miro Foundacion was enough to chase us back on the bus for the remainder of the afternoon. We got prime seats on the upper deck and decided that it would be wisest for us just to stay put. So, we rode around the city until nightfall and made our way home, stopping only for a pizza. Which, by the way, was decent but for some reason the waitress hated me. I think it´s because I tried to use my lame Spanish on her and, I must confess, I don´t really understand the whole Spanish v. Catalan thing so I probably pissed her off. Have to remember to ask our hosts about that.

Tomorrow we see the Gaudy buildings. Hooray.

G´night all.