Fire!

3/17 - 3/20

Fallas is probably the pyromaniac's dream festival. Hundreds of huge paper, wax, wood and polystyrene constructions are built up around the city. Every day a ridiculous number of fireworks and firecrackers are let off and on the last night everything gets exploded and burned. A 5-storey polystyrene sculpture going up in a tower of fire is something everyone should be able to see at least once.

Couchsurfing Montserrat

3/14 - 3/17

Didac replied to our last-minute couch request and gave us a place to stay before the start of the Valencia Fallas. Didac's a really nice guy, a teacher who loves his work. We realised how lucky he is to have work at all when we heard that unemployment in Spain had topped 50% for people aged 16-24. Terrassa is just 20 kilometres from Barcelona but we didn't really spend much time in the town itself; Montserrat and climbing were our goals. Thanks to the Oatmeal for helping me check that that semicolon wasn't misplaced.