After Barcelona, we went to a small coastal city called Tarragona. We went to the beach and got to play in the Mediterranean Sea! The day was too cold to swim, but the water was warm enough to get my feet wet.
Tarragona also has a number of Roman ruins. There was a coliseum and a circo, as well as a few other small ruins.
As I read the signs about the Roman games (which, of course, all involved lots of people dying, often gruesome deaths), I realized just how glad I am that somewhere in the time between the Romans and my birth, other games were invented, like Yahtzee and Air Hockey.
In the Northeastern area of Spain, there's a tradition apparently where people come together and make a human tower, and then a child will climb up on top. There was a huge statue demonstrating it, though I still don't know when or why the celebration takes place.
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