happy bittersweet good friday

haha.  someone sent me a message last night and said Happy Good Friday!  Sorry, i haven't sent it, as I've inly had limited access to internet.  But yes...  HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY!!!   but sad, as I am having breakfast in a cafe on the street, I am getting ready to say good bye to this wonderful city.  

the sights...  the smells...  the sun... the sand...  the scammers...  everything.

i just over 2 hours to go before I start my long and slow journey home...  the 'cheapest' flight includes a 9hr stopover in singapore, although now I'm wondering why on earth I thought that was a good idea!  haha.

so many beautiful churches, so much ice-cream...  catching up with old friends and making some new ones...  what a great holiday!

hohum...  i hear it's VERY cold back in sydney...  lucky i brought some jumpers with me.

and finally...  i was in a bookshop with Andrés and stumbled across this book.  haha.  just a bit of what i'm thinking right now...

i like it the other way around...  why be normal when you could be happy!?!?

and finally, a quote that i have seen floating around, I liked so much... i decided to buy it on a magnet...

hasta luego.

xx

¡¡Barcelona, ahhhhhh, España!!

(sagrada familia, 10 years on, still not finished, but VERY different to the last time I was here.  Due to be finished in 2026)

I can't believe apparently, I didn't postanything  last year.  haha, I mustn't have been having an adventure last year. oh well...  i think i was, maybe just nothing I felt like celebrating.  

well, 2016 brings who knows what!?  It's half over and I'm skipping over winter for a summer in spain.

I have spent many days wandering the streets of barcelona and being reaquainted with the smells, sounds and sights of a town i love.  

Clem, a flatmate from London, 10 years ago came and joined me for a touristic weekend in barca and we caught up with Lucia, who we also lived with all those years ago.  I have also caught up with Andres and Irene (in Zaragoza) both whom I met in Australia.

Thank you Jose, for giving a place to stay in barcelona and Irene for a place in zaragoza.

Lots of time to think, read and be in my favourite country on earth.  I am very lucky to have the opportunity to be back here.

loving the sculptures in barca.  this is one paying homage to the cataluña tower men

ahhhh...  segway tour!  haha.  yay

me and clem infront of another sculpture

me and andres at beer o'clock

i'm in love with some of the artwork/designs for the sagrada familia

the church in plaza pilar in zaragoza.  i love the coloured tiles on the roof.

i love the fact the shopowners are smoking and drinking in the doorway at work...  haha.  different world!

still loving the old street lights.  i don't think i'll ever tire of them.

Lucia, my old flatmate from London, reminded me, I once said I was going to live in Barcelona.  I somehow forgot that dream...  I am now wondering how I can go about actually living that dream!  (or maybe live somewhere else in spain).  Let's see what life throws my way!

anyways, at least I have posted something for 2016!  more adventures in life to come!