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The brick-detail on this church is amazing!

I stare out this window sometimes in the middle of class...

My Spanish professor left this at my seat on my birthday.

An Alice in Wonderland themed café that my roommate is in love with.

The inside of a restaurant.

A nice day on my walk home from school.

The best smoothie I have ever had. I forget what fruits were in it, but it was called the Florida. They had different smoothies named after various states in the US.

A nutella crepe with vanilla ice cream and whippies.

The man wasn't supposed to catch me taking a picture of his dog. He had the dog on a stay while he waited outside of the building. He walked in just as I was taking the picture, but he was nice to me!

There is Starbucks in Barcelona and it is rather popular.

Another cool alley.

This is how you locate a metro stop, looking for the big red M.

The inside of the metro.

A green space in the city.

A gas station! So much different than the United States!

I am assuming this is a hotel or apartment complex.

A park by the beach. There were many dogs here!

View from a park looking at the beach.

A graffiti-ed boat.

The beach and the boardwalk.

A beach soccer field. The metal posts are the goals.

A beach café decorated for Halloween.

The Mediterranean Sea.

A walking path surrounded by palm trees on both sides.

An outdoor hookah lounge.

Restaurants by the marina.

The marina. Many of these boats are meant to be rented by tourists for the day.

The marina.

Cafes to the left and the marina to the right.

Intricate weavings of escalators at a restaurant and shopping complex.

Locks with the initials of lovers locked to a bridge by the beach.

Halloween decorations at a restaurant entrance.

Parc Güell.

Casa del Guarda, a Gaudí designed house that is a small museum.

A street on my walk after Parc Güell.

The "washer" woman that holds as a column.

This area used to be a marketplace. Pay attention to the ceiling, very cool!

Blocking Parc Güell from the public school playground area.

Spiral columns by Gaudí.

The gardens in Parc Güell.

On my walk home from Parc Güell.

Can you spot the parakeet in the palm tree?

The view of the city from Parc Güell.

The public school located in Parc Güell.

View of Barcelona from Parc Güell.

The outside edge of the Parc Güell bench.

Flamenco dancers during the show.

A wall mural at Palacio del Flamenco.

Columns designed by Gaudí in Parc Güell.

The mosaic bench.

A hot tub in the visiting team's locker room at the FC Barcelona stadium.

FC Barcelona visiting team's locker room.

"More than a club." FCB prides themselves on reaching out to the people and standing for many moral values through their various teams. They are not just a men's soccer team, they also have men's and women's teams in a variety of sports like rugby, basketball, roller hockey, and handball.

The FCB stadium, Camp Nou, can seat a little under 100,000 people. It is currently the largest stadium in Europe!

The bench. Not a bench at all, I would be SO happy to sit on that bench!!

Qatar Airways was the second name to go on the front of FCB's jersey. UNICEF was the first, but they were not considered an actual sponsor and FCB always boasted about how they did not need a sponsor for their jerseys. But then Qatar Airways offered a very nice deal.

The Camp Nou Experience Tour & Museu!

Connecting the stadium to the three-story official FCB store. The roller/ice rink is on the other side, the large dome.

Messi.

Flamenco dancer.

Sponsors of FCB.

The FCB press room.

Boxing exhibit in the Olympic and Sports History museum (Museu Olímpic i de l'Esport).

Soccer/futbol cleats exhibit at the Olympic and Sports History museum (Museu Olímpic i de l'Esport).

The mascot is the cat-like figure on top of the bull for the '92 Barcelona Summer Olympics.

The Barcelona Olympic Stadium (Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys).

The wine tasting.

Keychain of the Cataluña flag with Agbar Torre in the background.

View from Parc de la Font del Racó.

On my way to the trail up Mount Tibidabo.

From my hike on the Mount Tibidabo trail.

View of my destination from the trail. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you may be able to see the red rollercoaster just below the tower.

My kitty friends that would not let me pet them.

The Expiatory Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus/Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor.

The ferris wheel.

The view from the top of Mount Tibidabo.

The view from Mount Tibidabo opposite of the city of Barcelona. I really like the one house in the middle of nowhere!

The only taste of the fall season I will be getting here, but I believe the leaves aren't changing colors and it is always like that.

My lizard friend! He was posing for my pictures and let me get very close to him.

Cactus was a common sight on the trail.

FC Barcelona.

La Mercé festivities in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Garbanzo bean salad.

The salt mountain that hardens in the oven.

The pork inside of the salt mountain.

Dinner is served.

Dessert: Mato, honey, and walnuts.

The grandchildren at my home stay enjoy building forts in the living room,

The closest market to my home stay: Grocery store is downstairs, appliances on the right, and straight ahead through the doors is the indoor fresh market.

Elevator buttons (the doors were closing as I took the picture, sorry for the blurriness as I tried not to be trapped!) with floor -1, -2, and -3 below the ground floor of 0 in a mall.

Barcelona in metal outside of a marketplace.

Product of my day at the beach!

Encants Barcelona, the flea market.

Torre Agbar, the bullet shaped building, my destination the day that I stumbled upon Encants.

Encants, the 3 story flea market.

The bottom floor of Encants where a vendor's items are strewn about. You may be able to see this from the photo.

Decorating the fence with purple flowers to hide the construction project behind.

Encants Barcelona.

A large churro stuffed with Nutella.

A dog park in the city. The dogs even look different in Barcelona!

Fireworks over Barceloneta and the Mediterranean Sea.

Barceloneta at night.

An example of a castell, or human tower. A long-standing tradition!

One of many spaces in the city where benches are located, a kind of "green space".

Indoor garden in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Indoor garden in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Indoor garden in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Soccer "field" in the city.

Mini lake in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Fountain in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Fountain in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Patatas Bravas, potatoes with a spicy sauce. (It is hardly spicy!)

Alley of Barceloneta, very close to the beach.

Barceloneta, W Hotel, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Rocky pier into the Mediterranean Sea.

La Sagrada Familia.

La Sagrada Familia.

La Sagrada Familia.

La Sagrada Familia.

La Sagrada Familia. A church designed by Antoni Gaudi.

Maristes la Immaculada.

La Sagrada Familia. View from a small park across the street with a mini pond.

McDonald's exists in Barcelona, unfortunately!