Barcelona

Today it has been one week since I got back to Barcelona. My bike has been sitting down on the passeig de colon and hasn't been used except when I went to the airport to see Alejandro Facchi. The temperature here has dropped down a lot, at night it is down around 3-4 degrees. So I don't feel much of an urge to go out.

Toño came to present his new book, and we spent time together with him over the weekend. He is making the rounds of Spain and so only spent a few days here in Barcelona before moving on.

We also went to see a concert in the palau de la Musica which was fantastic, both the palau and the music. The palau was built in the early 1900's and is an incredible example of what I think is called rococo architecture. And the concert was Chic Correa and Bela Fleck, playing banjo and piano, which seemed like an unusual combination of instruments. Both the quality of the music and the personality of the musicians made for a very moving evening.

I have one more week to go and then back to Vancouver. What looked like a really long vacation has gone by surprisingly fast. It's hard to believe that I once looked forward to a two week vacation.