IES El Fontanal

If you would like to see some of my fav students you can go to their bilingual blog and watch the video reports on Sleepy Hollow. We finished reading a VERY-abridged version a short while ago.

They are super-neat. (If it sounds like they are saying Boone, it is because the antagonists name is Brom Bones and they have a really hard time with it.

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Joaquín Mir

My favorite part of the Barça trip was the Museu Picasso (free the first sunday of the month, which I was there for) & La Caixa Forum (another free museum), who had a exhibit by a Catalá painter named Joaquín Mir, who I really liked.

His cave paintings of Mallorca

Pictures just don't do them justice.

Barcelona

priceless

The works of Gaudí

La Sagrada Familia

Eternally under construction. I didn't go in. It costs €9 to enter.

Park Güell

Home of the worlds longest bench, which is covered in mosaic in traditional Gaudí fashion. Fortunately, Park Güell is free and very cool.

Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló was the most expensive of the Gaudí sites but at the same time the most intriguing so I paid the €13, reluctantly. The face of the building is supposed to be an interpretation of St. George v the Dragon. Which is hard are impossible to know without being told. Although, the roof is scaley.


MORE Barça fotos here

Montserrat

I had a Monday off and I never work Fridays so I took of for Barcelona and made a stop in Montserrat to see some scenery. There is a monastery in the jagged mountains, many of which are named for something they look similar to. Here are a few of my interpretations.

The grimacing sock monkey.

The magi, the elephant, and the grimacing sock monkey sneaking into another frame.

The lonely walrus.

CLICK HERE for pictures of Montserrat.

Cirque du Soleil

We went last night.