Adam wanted to do the Barcelona FC stadium (Nou Camp) tour as part of his birthday celebration, so that's what we did on the Monday morning. If your interested in football at all then I'd say it's worth doing. You pay 17 Euros per person and you get to go all around the stadium including the away players changing room, players tunnel, beside the pitch, and the press room as well as several places in the stands. You also get to look around the museum. Now I'm really a football fan but Adam loved it so it was worth it just to see him enjoy himself!
After this we decided to do the second route on the open top bus tour, because there was a couple of things we wanted to see; Sagrada Familia and Guell Park (both designed by Gaudi). In the end we wished we hadn't! By that time it was raining, so we had to sit downstairs to save from getting drenched (I'd already had to buy a scarf because it was getting cold!). We eventually arrived at Sagrada Familia having found everything before it rather boring (apart from our only glimpse of the beach, not quite the same in the rain!). And it is as amazing as they say it is. It's actually still being built, which I didn't realise, as Gaudi died before he finished it. We didn't go inside but took plenty of photos of the outside:
After that we decided to get back on the Metro again to head to Guell Park because we just couldn't fave the bus tour! We got off at the nearest Metro station and still and to walk a little way (and ended up buying an umbrella!) and eventually came to Guell Park on top of a hill. I really liked it there, the mosaic design of the buildings and things. I just wish we'd seen it in better weather because I feel it would have look even better. And we would have really been able to appreciate the amazing view of Barcelona too. I'd love to go back one day. Here's a few pictures we took there:
And that was the end of another long day, so we grabbed so dinner before retiring to the hotel for the last time.I'll be honest, we didn't do an awful lot of the last day. Although our flight wasn't until the late evening. The first thing we did was go ans take a proper look at the Olympic Stadium, as we'd only passed it briefly on the bus tour. You can go inside for free. You can't go around the whole stadium, but it's interesting to see what it's like inside. We also saw this:
But unfortunately all I can remember about it is that part of it is at the same angle as the axis of the Earth! After that we did some shopping, took our last walk along the Ramlas and wasted some time before we had to head back to the hotel and off to the airport.
All in all we had a fab time and I'd love to go back again, maybe when the weather's better and for a bit longer so we can do more. We ran out of time to go to the zoo!
