Barcelona Shots

The many faces of this vibrant city, at once elegant and avant-garde. We paid homage in 2008.

Barcelona was, like, one the places I felt I had to visit from a young age. I don't know if it was the travel advertisements in the Elle magazines I used to read, or the football, or the language - Spain always held a certain attraction for me.

The pier, lit by the winter sun. See the giant cruise ship docked at the port.

Inside the very Goth Barcelona Cathedral. All dark, moody and imposing as are all the rest of the Gothic cathedrals we've been to in Europe.

Gaudi's crazy genius on display. La Sagrada de Familia, a project a hundred years in the making and still not yet complete.

Mind-boggling Parc Guell and apartment buildings, all by Gaudi. Barcelona must be an architechture students' dream?

Shots all round the city.

We met all kinds of people here. The friendliest locals, who helped us find our hotel tucked away in an alley.

A well-dressed crook who tried to sweet talk (aka swindle us)of our precious Euros.

An old croon attempting to rob AK in the metro train, only for us to be warned by another local.

La Ramblas and its street performers, its stalls hawking impromptu portraits, souvenirs, and all sorts of pets - hamsters, rabbits, reptiles and the like.

Fresh off the Spain's World Cup win, I guess I do regret missing a visit to the legendary Camp Nou, home to Barcelona FC, "more than a club".