España

A week of work deposited, and a weekend in Barcelona withdrawn. The weather, while cool, was very sunny all week. Then the weekend comes and the rain decided to hitch a ride. I was able to miss most of it on my outing in Barcelona on Saturday. I was interested in doing some higher resolution photographs, so headed of toward Parc Güell and Sagrada Família. I've had better weather, but did get some images. I'll have to wait until I am home to process most of them, but here is one:

Here is a larger version of the massive sixty mega-pixel image.

Sunday saw a trip to Girona, a medieval walled city a 90 minute train ride North of Barcelona. It was very certainly a time travel to walk on a wall that for years was the domain of soldiers. A different world where a couple of feet of stone could protect a city from a month long siege. Inside this fortification was an old town with its wonderfully twisty, narrow streets, houses of stone, and of course, a big cathedral. The rain held off for most of my stay, but came down about the same time the sun dropped, so I quickly found refuge in a small café on the bank of the River Onyar. I was in luck, too! The TV was turned to the 2005 Handball Championships where Spain was taking on Croatia. Spain took the game 40-34 against the former champions...

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