I thought the baby gorilla on this billboard was really cute on Saturday in Barcelona. I need to get a gig like that modeling. Contact me on Facebook to advertise your product!

Via Flickr:
Lil Dave liked this baby gorilla on this billboard

Jen and I are having late night tapas in a great bar and restaurant in Barcelona. I'm glad they made me banana bravas!

mini-Andy does hang out with some interesting characters and for some reason most of them are bigger than him. Here he is with some of the maxi-pals he met in Barcelona...

Leg-woman



Frame-man



Inflatable Mickey

After a night on the town with the skateboarding boys, our mini-Adventurer thought he'd have a look around the great city of Barcelona in Northern Spain.

Realising that a bit of the local lingo might come in handy, our mini-Linguist picked up a book on Spanish grammar and headed straight to an open terraza to get a glass of zumo de naranja and study the preterito imperfecto.



After a few hours reading, and after mastering three different past tenses he came to the startling realisation that the people of Barcelona speak a different language called Catalan so, throwing his book in his bag he set off to see the sights instead armed with his Canon EOS 20D.

(At this point I would like to point out that product placement is a bad and evil thing that is not looked on kindly in the mini-Andy offices, but in the case of Canon photographic products the mini-Editorial team are willing to make an exception.)



Among the many interests that mini-Andy has in that little body of his is an interest in architecture and Barcelona was the home to one of the greatest Modernist architects that ever lived, the Catalan Antoni Gaudi

In the flesh, mini-Andy was incredibly impressed with Gaudi's architecture, which fused elements of Gothic and Classical Spanish architectural styles with an organic quality.



Our mini-Hero then took a trip up Las Ramblas to see the Columbus monument at the center of the Plaça de la Porta de Pau. This was erected 1888 to commemorate the visit of Christopher Columbus in 1493 after the discovery of the Americas.

The statue is 7m high, but the great man was made to look rather small when stood next to our mini-hero!



From here, mini-Andy briefly visited the Naval Museum





Then he went down to Barceloneta, the lovely beach which is usually totally packed in the summer months. Because it was the middle of winter, out mini-Sunseeker had the beach all to himself. Yay!





A few more buildings later and mini-Andy was ready to call it a day.



Phew. What an exciting place! Thought our mini-Hero as he made his way back to the hostel to down a nice pint.



What a day!

On hearing that Barcelona was one of the world's Meccas for skateboarding, our miniature hero couldn't resist a cheeky visit with his maxi-Namesake.



After a tiring 9 hour overnight coach trip from Madrid, our mini-Hero booked in to a hostel near Barcelona Sant station, where he proved to be a hit with the ladies.



Being the little miniature geezer that he is, mini-Andy quickly made good friends with some local skaters, who offered to show him a few tricks and pretty soon he was on his way to the world-famous Sant station concourse to try out some grinds and ollies.

Our miniature hero was a natural, and it was only a matter of minutes before he had mastered the Sausage grind and Stalefishgrab so, deciding not to show up his hosts he retired to the sidelines to watch the professionals catch some air.



The sun went down and the vibes were good all night long, as heelflips and noseslides went down all round the concourse, and at the end of it, our mini-Adventurer went back to the hostel happy with his new pals to knock back a couple of well deserved drinks.