barcelona2

photos from the last two days...a visit to palau guell...the day after i arrived began the festes de le merce, and people from all over flooded the city. the Correfoc (fire run) was on night two of the festival, which is an endless parade of drummers and spinning, sporadic fireworks carried by spinning, sporadic people dressed in devil-like attire. you are warned that if you participate to dress fully in cotton clothing, and if you dont you will get burned-holes in my shirt as proof. we danced down the streets in a parade of drummers and chaos. it is very loud, and so much fun. our last night we went for tapas, ate a four course meal and drank (cold!) red wine for 7 euro. everyone but me in the photo is german... afterwards 08001 played in placa catalunya, the band that prompted the whole trip. barcelona...the best.