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Tourists

September 9, 2015September 10, 2015

While visiting Barcelona, Sequoia noticed this sticker on a pole in Gracia. “Why,” she asked, “would they want tourists to go home?”

We discussed tourism, and the balance between not wanting your city overrun with tourists while wanting to enjoy the economical advantages of being a major tourist destination.

Two days later, we were visiting La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s unfinished cathedral. As we descended one of its towers, Sequoia suddenly said, “I know why they want tourists to go home.” I looked up.

She’s no dummy.

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