From Paris to Spain

hey everyone
Here is a couple of pictures of our time in Switzerland. This day we went hiking at Gryon. It was so beautiful.
And then a picture in Paris. We went from Geneva to Paris. There we stayed for 2 days. Paris was really nice but I think that now that I have done it I won´t need to go back for awhile. I can check it off my list. We were there for French Independence day. They had fireworks at the Eiffel Tower. It was spectacular, but way too many people. It took us 4 hours to get back to our hotel from there. The metro system failed and we were too far away to walk the whole way, there was no way to get a taxi (plus they would have over charged us) and we had to just slowly make our way in the direction of our hotel when we came across one of the last night buses headed in our direction. While we were there we did all the touristic things that you have to do when you go there. We were lucky and went to the Louvre on Ind. day so we got in for free. We only spent a few hours there and were only able to see about 2/3 of one of the three wings. There was way too much to see. But we of course saw the famous Mona Lisa (it was not what I expected) It´s amazing to see this painting and that is one of the most famous of all paintings and then wonder to yourself why it is so famous. It was pretty small and not too much to it. Of course you read why it is so famous artisticly but it still does not mean anything to you b-c you really do not know about art in the first place. There were other less known paintings there that were more pleasing to the eye than the Mona Lisa. But I can now say that I have seen it and that is that. We also walked up the famous street Champs de Elysees. Went up into the Arc de Triumph, and the Notre Dame.
We left Paris on a night train and from there went to Barcelona Spain. We got here yesterday and walked around the famous Las Ramblas. Today we are going to explore more of the city. and later we have plans to go camping along the coast. Well, I have lots of people waiting for the computer so I´ll write more later.