Life Inside the Walls.

 We are here in Barcelona, inside our little 4 bedroom, two bathroom Air BnB.  Christine found it for us online and it is very cool and I am so pleased to be out of hotels, even though they were beautiful and inside some of the buildings we have spent the last 3 weeks walking past!

The whole apartment is about 7m by 12m, with a teeny, tiny kitchen that I cannot imagine the Momma of the house cooking massive Paella for all the kids out of!  We are on the 4th floor and we sent our bags up in this rattly old iron frame lift and climbed up the marble stairs ourselves.  It looks like there are 2 apartments on each floor and the stairs and sections past the doors are so narrow, that you wouldn't be able to pass another person on any of the landings.

Each of the rooms in the apartment have some little window or slat the goes out to fresh air, but they seem to be internal shafts, I guess just designed so you can get fresh air and maybe a bit of light?

At the front of the apartment on each floor are a set of French doors and an window which opens out over the street.  The windows have these groovy little slat shutters on them and every window down the street has the same system, which I guess they use when it is really hot, to keep the direct sun out.

I am currently sitting in an armchair with my feet up, looking out the French doors into the Barcelona evening and listening to the steady hum of traffic in the distance.  No, that is just a fantasy, I am sitting in an armchair with my feet up, looking out the French doors into the Barcelona evening and listening to cars, buses, motorbikes, horns and people, who might as well be driving through this room, but...... it may be noisy, but its noisy in Spain!!!!! :)