A Toast to Catalonia for New Year's Eve 2017

Cava Pink Cups by Juve i Camps

New Year's Eve 2017 is here and it well deserves a big toast for Catalonia in a turbulent year that has not been pleasant to anyone.

No matter what your political views are, you have to agree with me that this is a beautiful land that has done great things for this country, whatever you consider your country to be.

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You may be on the Spanish side or the Catalan side. Perhaps you are somewhere in between, you feel Catalan and Spanish. You may believe in an independent republic or you may believe in a Catalonia that is part of Spain. You may trust in the Spanish constitution and its 155 article or you may not...and whatever your opinions, your beliefs you have the sovereign right to think so because this is a democracy, right? And you will certainly agree with me in that violence only generates violence, hatred only generates hatred, not only on governmental instances but at family level as well.

As I said before, Catalonia is a wonderful extension of land inhabited by extraordinary people that love to work hard to make ends meet and dream of a better society to live on so let's raise our cups in honor of our beloved territory with one of our best products Catalan cava!

Happy New Year's Eve 2017 and Happy New Year everyone!

Candid Posing at Casa Mila - La Pedrera

Street photos sometimes offer you improvised models so being a witness and not the photographer at work allows you to capture the making off part of the scene.

What better background that the amazing architecture of our famous artist, Antoni Gaudi: Casa Mila also known as La Pedrera

Barcelona Subway Encounters of the Third Kind

Weird things you come across through the subway windows sometimes!

Dressed for carnival, these friends forget their costumes for a while and engage in normal conversation

Rewards: Capturing the Best Barcelona Image

You know when you are going up the street, everyone looks up and you gotta stop and follow the crowd?

Well, it happened to me at Carrer del Bisbe, Barcelona. In fact, I knew what tourists had spotted up there, but I had to look anyway, because it is in our nature, to imitate others in such moments of curiosity.

They were all trying to find a nice gargoyle, in their quest for the best Barcelona image. The gargoyles in particular are part of the Palau de la Generalitat, near the archway connecting with Casa de los Canónigos.

FC Barcelona Official Store: Hooked on a Feeling

Soccer does not understand from countries, ideologies, religions, cultures and FC Barcelona team has followers in the most unthinkable places of the planet.

Standing at the front of this FC Barcelona store in Passeig de Gracia, it was fun watching passersby react to the appealing entrance.

Stop Animal Cruelty Activist in Barcelona

Today at Sant Jaume square, the political and governmental center of Barcelona, there was this funny but convincing animals right activist, all by himself, denouncing cruelty with eloquent signs and collecting signatures from passersby.

There were many more signs lying all over the pavement with overwhelming pictures depicting animal abuse that certainly made you more aware to say the least.

Man with Taqiyah Cap, Barri Gotic, Barcelona

Man wearing a taqiyah cap and sitting in a narrow alley of El Barri Gotic in Barcelona. The light seemed ideal for meditation.

The Broken Cherry Case

Picking up the cherries were they, cleaning up the traces of their messy crime in plain afternoon light