Hola from Barcelona

All right, I know it's hokey and touristy to say hola just because am in Spain....but it's fun nonetheless. Hee hee. Have found an affinity to the hokey and touristy. It's my last day in Spain. Our latest hotel - Hotel Amister - is fantastic. V nice decor, clean and has a separate CD player, flat screen TV and (much to Nazir's delight) INTERNET. Hence this blog. We have just arrived and Nazir already checks out the Internet. *eyeroll*. The toilet is nice, clean, the toiletries nice smelling. Yum! Am such a toilet girl.

(n b. : Nazir says to mention that the Internet is very fast too! Sigh. What a geek.)

Am waiting to go out again so decided to type a few lines about my one week trip in Spain. Right now, am listening to Juanes while writing this. Just bought "Mi sangre". V nice.

Let's see. Madrid was fantastic! I love Madrid (more than Barcelona - though Nazir and I have been arguing about it since we got here. He prefers Barcelona infintely). It's huge, sprawling with neat orderly buildings. Tends towards huge buildings - v grand. Had to speak Spanish cause a lot of the people here do not speak English. Not that I mind. And most are quite nice about the stuttering and slow speech.

I had been quite sick these past two days in Barcelona - so have not really been enjoying myself. Went to the Perfume Museum (v. nice. Lots of gorgeous bottles) on the first day - alone, as Nazir had to attend meetings. The second we went to Gran Via 2, a shopping complex. The next day, we went to Port Vell and Barceloneta. It was quite nice, but as I said, as sick so did not enjoy much with a dripping nose. And of course, was sick because of the weather! Which is so much like S'pore, no wonder I do not like it. Ha ha.

Yesterday, we went to Montjuic. There's the Palau Nacional (that's in Catalan. Bad enough with ONE language! Now a second!), Olymipic Staduim and most fun of all, the fountains. They switched on the fountains one at a time, down the steps and down the walkway. It was fantastic. Then, the fountains were lit up slowly, with the central fountain finally bathed in pale blue and pink lights. Half an hour later, the music bit of the musical fountain started - it was ok, not very synchonized. S'pore's much better with the dancing water. But this is the sort of fountain which spurts out water and stays put. More beautiful overall but not as a musical fountain.

On Barcelona itself. It's huge and sprawling. There's the sea/port bit on one side, the hills (Montjuic), and the city itself (around the Placa Catalunya area). A bit too messy for my taste but Nazir likes it.

Okie. Time to go. :D