Wine tasting, Sitges, & football

Since Italy I've gotten to do a few other cool things along the way. Last Friday I took a nice little tour about an hour southwest of Barcelona to Penedés to visit the huge Codorníu winery that's down there. They've got a HUGE place with tunnels everywhere underground and millions of wine bottles, literally. Sparkling wine's not my favorite, but they've got some good cavas there. I'm not positive, but either that site or Codorníu in general has got something to do with the origins of the cava. The place had been there for a good 400 years or something so it wouldn't surprise me.

Afterwards our group took about another hour trip over to Sitges to hang out at or around the beaches there. Other than a good restaurant and the beach, I went and checked out the little corridors around the cool looking cathedral that faces the beach. It was another interesting and relaxing day, although ridiculously hot by the beach.

Then last Saturday FC Barcelona played Espanyol here in town, so I made it to my only soccer game of the summer. It was sweet!...until the 90th minute, literally, when Espanyol scored the tying goal. Their fans had already left in disgust for the most part, and they ended up tying the game. It was awesome getting to see them play, Ronaldinho was out from a red card the previous week but I got to see Eto'o and Messi. Messi actually scored both goals.

I've got almost all of the pictures posted finally, it's just really slow at uploading them all. This weekend's bringing a 3-day trip down to Granada which I'm really excited for so I'll have some more stories and pictures to come in a few days. I hope you all have a great weekend, talk to you soon!