Is 7 mins enough time to write a blog?

Hello all,

Ah, ah, ah, ah, aaah! The world provides! Barcelona is - well, to quote Napoleon Dynamite - awesome. Incredible. ... I love it! Eep! (That was me. I´m sure Napoleon is about as likely to say "eep" as Snape is!)

Things I´ve loved so far (har har):

• Parc Güell and its stray cats (I counted 6 today) and it´s views of the city and the sea. Oh the sea, I´ve missed you!
• Picasso Museum - a lot of people have said it´s crap, but if you love Picasso as I do, then you won´t find it crap. (And if you don´t like Picasso, then why go to a Museum called "Museo Picasso"?!!) Yes, it has some of his more boring early stuff, but I found it really interesting because it shows the progression of his work and also some naked people, and then it gets to some really cool later stuff like a whole room devoted to his study of Las Meninas, by Velazquez, including his most famous version (go here for a squiz: http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso211.html). It´s great. Also there´s a picture of his friend/secretary Jaime Sabartes, as a faun! I want someone to paint a picture of me as a faun! (I do like fauns!)
• Gaudi. All I can do it put on an English accent and say "Brilliant". Brilliant, utterly brilliant. Only been to La Pedrera (an apartment building with a famous wavy roof) and Parc Güell so far, but to quote Kath from Kath and Kim, I like what I see. (That is, "I loike what I see")
• Finding a cinema that showed Harry Potter and what´s more, it wasn´t dubbed in Spanish - bonus! I´ll limit my comments on this subject to two, maybe three. 1: Ralph Fiennes as Lord Uncle Voldy is damn scary. Scary as hell. 2: I think I enjoyed watching this film more that reading the book. I mean, the fourth book is not so great, eh? But the film! It´s good! 3: The three Spanish teenagers (at a guess, 15 year olds or so) sitting next to me in the sold out session were swooning in the scene where Harry takes a bath. So hilarious.
• The sunshine. Not really convincingly warm, but sunny enough to get me in the mood for summer. Which is where I´ll be in one week´s time (the season of course also being a place, yeh? You always take the weather, etc). Yes, this is my last Saturday in Europe for the time being. I´ll be back in Melbourne before you can say Sunday-Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday. Well, maybe a bit after you´ve said that.

And guess what? That took longer that 7 mins to write - I had to put more money in. (No need for an exclamation mark there, Esther. Settle - settle.) But now I will go to bed. Mmm, I like my single room as well. On the top floor - the view out the window in the morning is tops!

xxxx