Lost in Barcelona

A tiny refrigerator opens in a tiny room and a tiny 330ml bottle of mineral water glides out.. this bottle will cost me 2€ 75p. My own stupidity for not remembering to buy anything on the way to the hotel. But after two extremely cheap beers (1€50p), I really need a fresh drink.

I am in Barcelona, capital city of the Principality of Catalonia in Spain. I'm here as part of a team to kick-off an extremely interesting EU-project called Fotorally. This is our last meeting before the actual work begins and I'm sure the meeting tomorrow will be on the heavier side as the deadline for everything to be finished is next week.

After a 4 hour flight from Finland, a bus from the airport, finding the hotel and going out for drinks.. I'm already out of juice. I worked most of the flight for tomorrows presentation and didn't get any sleep. I'm fairly sure the powerpoint I made is hideous, but hopefully my points will get through. This rant was an excuse for not volunteering to write a more original description of Fotorally. I'm just going to quote something taken from our beta website:

"Fotorally is an international project to enhance the understanding of the European cultural diversity. The project initially run as a four city collaboration: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki and Manchester.

Fotorally presents itself as a “game of imagination”. Its goal is to create an online digital matrix of photographs taken by ordinary citizens throughout Europe, capturing the diversity of European cultures and ways of living – European Family Album."

Considerable plans are in motion to make this project a success and I'm sure we'll make one splendid website full of lively and interesting photographs from all over Europe.

I'll not write more of our hotel. Its a fine place to sleep a couple nights in and its safe (see the guard in the picture?).

Tomorrow I'll have more interesting pictures for you to take a look at as well as perhaps some inside information on how our seminar.. meeting.. day went.

For now;

Bona nit! (that's Good Night in catalan)