IN LOVE

Fresh seafood market near our apartment
Sagrada Familia by Gaudi-short walk from our house :)

1st day-1st sangria


1st cava (spanish champagne) on our balcony the 1st day

Beautiful green park near our place

Another Gaudi building with Emre

Emre with 'Jamon' huge aged legs of meat-some at 60 Euros per kilo!

...with this city!!!! We are so in love with this beautiful place!

As the plane was landing in Barcelona a couple of days ago, Emre commented 'This place better be **bleeping** good'. As you all know we have gone through a lot to get here, and thankfully with first impressions it is even better than we imagined. The city is architecturally absolutely beautiful. Everywhere you look are huge ornately decorated buildings and most are surrounded by huge green treees and green areas-how different from where we just were!

As we walk around it has the great anonymity of a big city, very diverse, multi cultural and just has a great energy in general. The beach is gorgeous (forgot camera that day, so will get pics of it soon)...people are very friendly, there is music in the streets most everywhere, tapas restaurants on most every block...wonderful gelato.. feel..pants..tighter..already :)

We stayed in the heart of the city the first two nights but have now moved a little further out to our apartment for the summer. It is in a great quiet area full of small boutique shops and tons of cafes. This morning on the way to Sagrada Familia (sp?)--the amazing building by Gaudi in the photo...we stopped for a 'cafe con leche' (coffe with milk)--see how AMAZING my spanish is already..ha!..and a crossiant at a tiny french run cafe..., heaven :)

As of tomorrow it's the start of some normal work day stuff so that we can make it possible to stay here longer. Emre will get to work, we'll apply for our social security like numbers, I'll apply for as many jobs as I can possibly find and start preparing to teach english private lessons.

We are SO enjoying our time so far..will write much more soon, thanks for coming on this journey with us, and come and visit soon!