A home at last

Well we found a way through all the red tape and are now locals in Barcelona renting an apartment. It is pretty swish … on the surface. We have a fantastic view from our balcony, living room and bedroom of the Sagrada Familia. They light it up at night too and it looks even better then, because you can’t see the cranes that are working on it or the congestion of buildings between us and it. Now we have got our things scattered around it looks much more like our home. It is pretty comfortable and very quiet.
It is fully furnished so we just have to get food and work out how to use everything. We don’t have a wireless internet connection from our flat though. We must just have very lucky in the hostel, I might take my computer for a walk around the block and to the park and see if I can pick anything up. Directly below us is an internet café (without the café as Max says) and it is pretty cheap – 1 euro ($2) for 1 hour. Max has already spent a fair bit of time there. Also just below us is a good little supermarket and a bar/ restaurant.
We went for a walk yesterday afternoon to a mall area we hadn’t seen before. There were lots of bars and restaurants all with views of Sagrada Familia and leading to an old, ornate and amazing hospital with lots of decorative tiles and towers. It still operates as a hospital apparently but all the grounds are open to the public. There is so much elaborate and different architecture here in general use, it creates a whole artistic atmosphere.