As they say... All Good Things...

It's 5:15 AM local time and people watching is alive and kicking in the Helsinki Airport.  

Helsinki???

This is why:

Yep. It was match day! 😊

Here's the only selfie you'll see from the trip. (I'm not keen on having my photo taken.)

Ha ha. Yeah, well...curly hair too...  Lol.

Here's the rest of the images for the day...or I guess yesterday:

The Camp Nou:

 

The crazy fans:

This is in the mega-store at the Nou 1.5 hours before match time. You could barely move. Did I buy regalia? Would I do that??? 😜

If you look carefully (and maybe it's more obvious than I can tell blogging this in the small iPhone screen) the fans fill the sidewalk to the very far end of the photo. By the time I got to that far corner, the Garda had blocked off the street bc fans were walking in the street just to pass.

The scoreboard, match time was 22:00. Think I was early?? You bet I was.

The famous pitch:

The team warming up:

Oh, and Barça beat Seville 3-2. I literally JUST made my flight (running was involved and it was questionable whether my luggage would).

I still have videos to upload but for the most part, that's all folks. Hope you enjoyed this. I know I did and this was just a glimmer of the fun. 

Thank you to everyone who helped with suggestions before and during this caravan road show. 

So who wants to go on the next road show??  😎

La Pedrera and Parc Güell

Yesterday afternoon lunch happened at the La Pedrera Café located inside the La Pedrera building. This cafe is from now on very fondly known as the Crustacean Room. :) The photo above is the ceiling of the cafe. 

Below are the snaps from the cafe:

Notice the projected clock... Homage to Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñel. 

Images of La Pedrera:

Yeah, You've Got to See This For Yourself

It's going to be too much to show you all of the snapshots. What I will say is find time at some point in your life to go see this monument.

It is worth every moment... Oh, and spend the money to go up in the torre (tower). If this girl (me) with severe vertigo can do it, so can you.

For your reading pleasure on the background of the monument, maybe start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia

Here are a few of the many shots:

These vessels hold the Holy Water: