After we took a fast train ride from Madrid to Barcelona we got to our new hotel. This was the amazing view from one of the windows:

Looking the other direction we could see this:

In the middle is Sagrada Familia – more on that in a future post…

Then we went walking – here are a couple of photos from that first wander with no destination in mind:

After this we stopped for a while and decided to make a plan. I reached out to several friends I know had been to Barcelona and they gave a number of suggestions, which guided our adventures in the upcoming days. More soon!