2017 • Barcelona
April 4, 2017 to April 6, 2017
After the capital in Madrid, Barcelona is Spain’s second largest city and is full of history, but has an uncertain future. As the capital of the Catalonia Autonomous Region, the city is often caught in the middle of Spanish authorities and Catalonian separatists. Barcelona itself has a large number of Catalan and Spanish unionists while the countryside is much more nationalistic. Fortunately, there was no major conflict while I was there. There was, however, a large amount of strife not all too long after I was there, but things had cooled down by the time I returned to the city in 2020. Despite being caught in the middle of the political fight between Spanish unionists and Catalan nationalists, Barcelona is an incredible city with a great amount of history in a setting that is almost unparalleled in Europe. Unfortunately, somewhere in between Barcelona and Normandy, I lost my camera. Meaning, all of the pictures that I took during my second day in Barcelona were lost (except for the four that I had uploaded to social media). This also meant that for the remainder of my trip, I had to use my phone to take pictures.
