Barcelona and More!

Well, well, well...

Since the last post we have done alot, and since time is short I´ll try and fit as much in as possible...

Beacches of Normandy - saw the Canadian WWII landing beach (Juno Beach) and visited the museum. Went to Omaha beach (where the Americans landed and got their asses kicked), Pointe du Hoc which has preserved German bunkers and guns as well as a field full of bomb craters. The Americans had to scale 30 meters of cliff to get to the Germans.

St. Malo - very awesome place that we weren´t even planning on going to. The entire city is walled and is on the ocean. We ate crepes on top of the wall while watching the sunset on the ocean.

Cancale - hiked around a peninsula in northern France, climbed rocks, played on beaches.

Mont St Michel - AWESOME! An entire island turned into a monastary and city. It towers over the ocean. Sometimes the tide surrounds the mountain and sometimes sand surrounds it. It has been a place of pilgramage for about 1000 years.

Two very kind French girls offered us a ride back to Paris in their van. Along the way, they bought us lunch and check the train schedule for us. So great.

Got couchette train - we slept over night in bunk beds on the train. We were lucky and were only 3 to a room when there could have been six.

Now we are in Barcelona!!! Spain is pretty hot. Temperature and otherwise. We´ve seen all sorts of Gaudi, saw the Familia something or other which is a church that has been under construction for 125 years and they still are nowhere near completion.

AND, tonight we are headed out for Tapas, Sangria, and a Flemenco show!!!

Gotta run!