{"id":1085,"date":"2010-10-03T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2010-10-03T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T14:52:08","slug":"recent-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Recent Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were recently in the city of Barcelona for a few days en route back to Australia &#8211; where we hit Perth in time to vote in the breathtakingly close election\u00a0 that took weeks to decide absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>We so enjoyed the city of Barcelona on the southern edge of the Mediterranean, an area that has been lived in by people since Paleolithic times &#8211; the history museum there is fabulous.\u00a0\u00a0The food, the architecture, the museums we visited, the ambience &#8211; it was all great, we didn&#8217;t see everything we could have but well, you have to leave something to go back to, right?\u00a0 I did paddle in the Med though.\u00a0 Wandering down the Rambla that goes from the central plaza down to the coast, in one long zone there are lots of living street sculptures\u00a0we enjoyed &#8211; here are a couple to give you a smile today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-living-street-sculptures.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1086\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=1086\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-living-street-sculptures.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W370&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1282090585&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2009&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Barcelona &amp;#8211; living street sculptures\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-living-street-sculptures.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-living-street-sculptures.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1086\" title=\"Barcelona - living street sculptures\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-living-street-sculptures.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-living-street-sculptures.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-living-street-sculptures.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=1087\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-2.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W370&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1282090617&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2009&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Barcelona street sculptures 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-2.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-2.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1087\" title=\"Barcelona street sculptures 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-2.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-2.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1088\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=1088\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-3.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W370&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1282090485&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2009&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Barcelona street sculptures 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-3.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-3.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1088\" title=\"Barcelona street sculptures 3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-3.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-3.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Barcelona-street-sculptures-3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were recently in the city of Barcelona for a few days en route back to Australia &#8211; where we hit Perth in time to vote in the breathtakingly close election\u00a0 that took weeks to decide absolutely. 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