Today I shall mostly be getting soaked through.

The weather took a bit of downturn today. Which was amusing, as I was happy just getting very wet and everyone with umbrellas got blown across roads. But it was definitely a day for indoor occupations. Like...as you may have guessed from the earlier entry...all things religious.

I spent the morning at the Monestir de Pedralbes, which is rather pretty and very old. My sort of place. I managed to spend about an hour and a half there without really knowing how. It was a series of little scenes from Jesus' life (randomly in a cellar) that got the 'and is it true? For if it is...' line going round in my head - so clearly had to share it with the rest of you.

This evening I went back to the Barri Gotic and more particularly La Seu, as his time I was wearing sufficiently modest clothing to be allowed to enter... outside (although that face is currently scaffolded over) and inside. I wandered around for a bit benig in awe of the sheer scale and age of it all...and finding the ancient Catholicism of it all a little strange. I got a candle and lit it at Saint Theresa's chapel with a mental promise to find out why she is a saint. I am sure I used to know, as she's the saint's name I took at my confirmation...

When I left La Seu I promptly got caught in an incredibly heavy rain shower. Which was, as I said, highly amusing, and I chose to just get soaked. Cue a lot of people sheltering in doorways, though. And the wind knocking a flowerpot from a high windowsill. And people in pac-a-macs rustling so loudly that they sounded like express trains.

But I think I have now found the area of shops which will eat my bank account...around Placa de l'Angel (and that made me smile) there are a range of small specialist quaint type shops...one selling all semi-precious stones in jewellery, one selling every type of game imaginable, one selling all sorts of writing equipment...oh dear. I simply can't resist buying things from that sort of place. People whose addresses I have, you may get small gifts whether you want them or not...as it will make me feel better if I am buying for other people and not just myself.

Oh. And I officially now think Barcelona rocks. *grins*