Barcelona, por que?

First of all, you’ll have to bear with us.  We’re new to blogging and this won’t be pretty.  Be kind and enjoy the ride.

We decided to spend this Thanksgiving in Barcelona.  It seemed like every person we spoke with after our trip to Madrid said the same thing, “Are you guys nuts—didn’t you go to Barcelona?  It’s unbelievable!” So, it may seem this decision was made to correct the apparent error in our ways, but it was not.  We chose Barcelona because V told us to go to Istanbul.  In part, we decided to blog about the trip so we wouldn’t have to spend money on postcards and stamps.  Mostly, we wanted to do it because V did it.

Since Spanish isn’t among our combined language skill sets, we decided to prepare for the trip by taking a computer-based Spanish course.  (Yeah…we know…they speak Catalan in Barcelona.)  We chose Fluenz--after reading many reviews and comparisons with Rosetta Stone.  It’s addictive.  We’re not at all hopeful that the 90 classes that will have been completed by the time we leave will, in any way, prepare us for actually speaking WITH a native-speaker, but we shall see.  On the other hand, it has opened up a whole new world to us—Hispanic television.  Who knew there was Hispanic Shopping Television? (LLAME AHORA!)

Hasta Luego!