OK, so let's see if I can write this quick?
First day was a midday start. I had popped over to the Temple de la Sagrada Familia. An immense modern church. It just was utterly unreal. As if it were something from the setting of Warhammer 40000.
Lunch at the conference was a little bit xmas like. It was some roast duck, with stewed apples and figs. Yeah! Food at this conference has been amazing and I feel so stuffed.
That night we were taken to Casa Batllo, which like the church, was a construction of Gaudi. Casa Batllo is as if elves on crack had made it. Surreal curving surfaces everywhere. Literally as if the building was alive. Dinner that night was held there! Queue stupid amounts of wine and food.
Starters were (each being a mouthful only!) ;
Prawns and caviar, a shot of apple and cucumber vinegar, duck liver in chocolate, feta wrapped in ham, tempura asparagus, fried rice ball, beef and satay dip.
The main course, when it arrived after all the above, was a nice piece of steamed sea bass.
Dessert was some sort of sponge with a mango like ice cream and the after that chocolates.
So yeah, stuffed, and after that I led, but did not join, some chemists to the old town so they could drink more.
Today was an early start, and with my boss doing his presentation... so I had to be awake.
Lunch again was impressive and woke me up fully.
Most of the presentations were interesting, but more what you could use the programs for, rather than how you design them, which is what I do.
There was a cool toy there being a 3D viewer station connected to a haptic feedback device. It means, by hand, you can move molecules about a protein and the device gives you force feedback. Weird but very cool.
So this evening has been back to the quiet of the hotel, a brief sit up on the terrace (I should have used the pool here!) and now just resting my legs more before sorting everything out for the morning and heading home.
I really can't wait to come back to Barcelona and bring my wife along too!
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