We were recently in the city of Barcelona for a few days en route back to Australia – where we hit Perth in time to vote in the breathtakingly close election  that took weeks to decide absolutely.

We so enjoyed the city of Barcelona on the southern edge of the Mediterranean, an area that has been lived in by people since Paleolithic times – the history museum there is fabulous.  The food, the architecture, the museums we visited, the ambience – it was all great, we didn’t see everything we could have but well, you have to leave something to go back to, right?  I did paddle in the Med though.  Wandering down the Rambla that goes from the central plaza down to the coast, in one long zone there are lots of living street sculptures we enjoyed – here are a couple to give you a smile today: