One more ham and cheese sandwich and my head will explode

Barcelona is still wonderful.....I spent a bit of yesterday recuperating (so much for those saved up sleep points) and slowly getting into the day, coffee and yet another ham and cheese sandwich. Have I mentioned that the singular budget food option in Spain and Portugal is a ham and cheese sandwich (or ham and cheese on toast if you're feeling particularly spicy). I swear to god...if I eat one more of these my head will explode scanners style. Ubiquitous food options aside, I spent the rest of the day wandering aroung the montjuic district, a collection of gardens, museums and olympic facilities set high atop a hillside, and wandered around the fundacion Miro. The museum houses an incredible set of his work, from the early years up until his death. I think the work he did around the war years is my favorite. So much so that I think I may have to get a Miro star tattooed somewhere on my body in the near future. Anyways....after that it was back to the hostel to drink cheap wine with my new insta-hostel friends (a dready from Toronto stranded because of an unfortunate mugging, a substitute teacher and skipping coach from Leeds and a hard rock kid from south England). Hostels are wierd, wierd places. Today was spent perusing the works of Gaudi, especially Parc Guell and La Sagrada Falmilia. The man was insane, and I mean that in the most comlimentary sense of the word. The park includes the longest park bench ever made and enough undulating caverns and bridges to give the whole thing a cartoon on acid type of feel. This was built somewhere between 1900 and 1914. The chruch, on the other hand, is still not completed, having begun construction sometime in the late nineteenth century. Oh and there is 70 odd years left to go on the construction plan. It posesses the most intensely decorated facade ever, complemented by a ridicously cartoony and tall nave and central vaulting colored to look as if it could be worn to Studio 54 circa 1973. Oh and some of the spires are topped with baskets of mosaic fruit. This was a wierd, wierd cat....and clearly my new favorite architect.