The Wayfaring Adventures of Rod and Clinton...

The ever popular series "Hotel Room Views" by Clinton Day.

This is it from our room in Barcelona. A nice view of the plaza outside and the big church to the right.

Barcelona's big attractions are the tiny, wall to wall streets all through town filled with food, art, and pictures of the Sagrada Familia, as well as other funky architecture by Antoni Gaudì (I prefer to refer to him as "Gaudy.)

His "Modernism" work of the late 19th century is everywhere and I can't see why. It's kind of multi-colored, Disneyland, fake-mud style architecture and it doesn't fit in with the beautiful old cathedrals and walkways. But hey, the guy was a genius they say, so who am I to judge?

The first piece of "genius" you gotta see when in Barcelona is the Parc Güell, which Gaudì designed to house the city's elite.

It was to be a lavish living area with multi-colored houses and sparkling ceramic mosaics (the kind of stuff you make in grade school.)

When only two people signed on to live there, they turned it into a Parc. 'Good thing the tourists find it interesting!

The next piece of genius is this (actually) very beautiful cathedral, Sagrada Familia.

But I hope they didn't pay the guy up front because the thing ain't finished! They're STILL working on it! It would be REALLY beautiful if it weren't covered with scaffolding.

Rod in front of some of the funky multicolored balls that go on the walls eventually. We just called 'em giant Trix.
I guess when they finish it, the rest of town will look like this thing and will fit in.

The view of town from up inside the Cathedral.

Some of the sculpture outside the church.

If you want the best view of the Sagrada Familia without the scaffolding in front, just take a picture of the Coke machine just outside of the stairway leading up to the spires.