Barcelona Day 3:

Just as Sunday was rainy Monday was glorious - sunny and warm with a deep blue sky so today had to be an outside day... so we headed back up Paseig de Gracia to queue for nearly an hour to gain access to another old favourite of ours, Casa Mila aka La Pedrera aka The Wibbly-Wobbly house. Luckily the queue threaded up past an ice-cream shop....

We have been so often we forgo the cool of the vaulted brick attic Gaudi museum and pelt straight for the doors to the roof. I really can't say anything more than I have said previously about La Pedrera but it never fails to make me smile like a loon all the time I am atop it, enjoying it's absurd majesty all over again and the special trick of making any adult feel like a great big kid exploring it's nooks and crannies... so what if you have hundreds of pictures of the chimneys and landmarks... this time you just might find a new way of looking at one! We were up there for ages resulting in big lobster faces for us the next day but it was worth it. We finished off with a visit to the open apartment which shows you how it would have been the height of modern living to have bought an apartment there in 1910.

Having got the taste for roof-life we then visited the Cathedral and after looking around the interior for a while we headed up to the roof! Owen - whose middle name is Vertigo - was very good walking about the scaffolding platform. You don't actually get much a view of anything other than Montjuic but it's still a thrill to know you are on top of La Seu.

After the roof we walked around the cool shadows of the Cathedral's cloisters and said hello to the 13 geese who are kept there, symbolic of the age of the martyr Saint Eualia who is buried under the main altar.

That evening we made it third time lucky with re-visiting old favourites by having a dinner at the delightful La Pizza Nostra just down from the Picasso Museum. A small restaurant with an interesting menu - Italian with a Catalan twist - we go to savour the most obvious pizza idea that I have never found anywhere else - a half & half pizza. Mine was 50% ham & pineapple, 50% smoked salmon - 100% lovely!