Barcelona: mucho mas que la vida loca

A photo of a truck filled with bottles of butane -- why would I want to feature it in my photoblog? Simply because after four days of living here in our friends' apartment, I've noticed that the city -- the Barri Gotic, at any rate -- runs on this fuel. On my way to this square I passed two men pushing large carts full of the distinctive orange bottles. And on our first morning, "home alone" while our friends were out, John and I struggled to scramble eggs. The missing element: the butane fuel, which had been carefully switched off by our hosts!

There's a drought in Barça, officially proclaimed a year to the day before I took this photo. This means less extravagant dishwashing techniques -- however the consumption of drinking water remains the same, perhaps, since todo el mundo imbibes from bottles.