I've received a couple of proposals that we hold a Barcelona Blog Bash. I'm in. All other bloggers and blogreaders are invited. Sometime during Holy Weekend (Apr. 18 to 21) would probably be the best time, since almost everyone in Spain is off work then and the weather should be nice. For people coming in from out-of-town, we can put up a couple who don't mind smoking and cats. There's also a decent and inexpensive hostal within walking distance of my place, and a three-star hotel not much farther away. We could even hold a lunch symposium with my mother-in-law--we'd take her out to eat somewhere nice, of course, and get a glass or so of wine into her--over her experiences as a fourteen-year-old girl during the Spanish Civil War. I checked the listings in La Vanguardia and the classical music offerings aren't up yet for that week, but I guarantee you that there'll be something at the Palau de la Musica Catalana (a spectacular Domenech i Montaner building) and at the new concert hall, L'Auditori, for you music people out there. There will be a nice exhibition on of the female nude in 19th century French painting from the Petit Palais in Paris, titled "From Ingres to Bonnard", at La Pedrera (one of Gaudí's major buildings), for you art people. There's always something good on at one of the theaters, for you theater people who know Spanish or Catalan. There'll be a soccer game in town that weekend, either Barça or Español, for you sports people. And, of course, plenty of beer, for you beer people.