A transcription of the diary I kept while traveling in Spain in August of 1999.

23 August 1999

Barcelona - last day

Used up my T-1 getting into town. Confirmed my plane ticket (I'm to check in by 8:00 am!), bought lunch (and some food stuffs for Kay) at El Cortes Ingles, walked down Las Ramblas (for the last time, I promise) to look for spices in the market, checked out an instrument shop (all modern, including a whole room-full of American guitars) and back to the air-conditioned El Cortes Ingles to shop.

Back to the hostel, siesta, walked up into Parc Guell. Weird, wavy organic rock formations. Like a medieval church with a bad hangover.
Parc Guell
Gaudi

This was another of Eusepi Guell's commissions. It was meant to be a gated community for the city's wealthy, but the only house that was ever built in it was the one that Gaudi lived in while working on the site.

Walked to Lesseps Pl., bought some fruit in a supermercats, then back to the hostel, showered, ate, and packed. Good-night.

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