Barcelona!

I've been busy with work and traveling, and haven't updated my blog in a while... Miraculously, Bethany and I both got to attend PCR, a european cardiovascular conference for physicians and medical device manufacturers. This year the conference was in Barcelona, Spain, so we joined up and planned where we wanted to explore before and after the conference.

The conference was great, and Barcelona is definitely a fun place with a lot of old architecture thrown in with new modern stuff. (much of the city was built in preparation for the 1992 olympics) The city is also filled with a lot of Gaudi architecture, like th Parc Guell and Sagrada Familia (the unfinished church)... all this stuff is well... gaudy! old and highly detailed and featured, but a little much.

The Sagrada Familia

The main drag is called "The Ramblas", which by day is filled with tourists looking for shopping, coffee, or tapas. At night, there's a lot of nearby bars, and late night dinner establishments (dinner typically starts around 10pm in spain)

Here's a street performer near the ramblas scaring children as "the nightmare before christmas"


more to come...