Travels to the Edge

Having breakfast at a street cafe with taxis passing is not unusual in any city; yet beneath this common facade lies Barcelona - a soulful place filled with passion and spirituality, and a Catalan culture steeped in creativity and doing things differently as individuals and as a community.  Take Antoni Gaudi for example and Sagrada Família - Barcelona’s Holy Family cathedral nearing completion.  Almost 140 years ago, Gaudi took the architectural and engineering design gig of working on an exemplary ‘neo-gothic’ cathedral. Shortly after he started, he had this revolutionary idea of an ‘inside-out’ design - where all the bible stories are etched into the exterior walls, and inspirational coloured light floods the interior spaces to support communal prayer and personal contemplation. Talk about a radical individual - and a passionately persistent local community - after all this time, the cranes are still there! But not for too much longer… The central Christ tower and the four E...