We arrived in Barcelona in the morning but we were pretty tired from flying.  We did a little walking and saw parts of the old Roman wall in the Gothic Quarter before wandering into Santa Maria del Mar.

The church was a prime example of what you’d think of when you thought of a Gothic church.  There was a fire in 1936 that burned much of the interior.  I don’t think they ever redecorated.

We wandered down some neighborhood streets and had lunch before heading back for a nap.  We were trying to get to the Picasso Museum but we never made it.

That night we had a tour of Gaudi’s La Predrera.  That was very cool and I think that doing the tour at night made it that much better.  Much of the building was hand made (on site even).  Door frames, handles, railings and even the bricks often had handprints of their maker in them.

After the tour, we walked back to our hotel and took a few pictures of Casa Batllo.

Our hotel (Hostal Oliva) was in a great location and the owner was nice and always tried to be super helpful.  Her English was pretty much non existent and my Spanish is awful so it was comical trying to communicate.  The only bummer about our accommodations was the smell of sewer gas from the shower.  If we kept the windows open all the time it would clear out, so it was something we could handle.  We were on the fourth floor of the building and had to take a small wooden elevator to get up.