Anyway Claire Darren and I caught our flight at the respectable hour of 3.30pm to arrive in Barcelona sometime later, I honestly can't remember when maybe around 7. We then had an hour long bus trip into Barcelona from the Girona airport. Unfortunately it was pretty dark so we couldn't see much.
We found our Bed and Breakfast without too much trouble. It was in the beautiful gothic quarter on the main street called La Ramblas. We were on the fourth floor and the view down to the street was great, especially as they still had some of the Christmas lights up. For 9pm on a Sunday night the place was incredibly busy! Actually there were people out and about all night it seemed! We opted for the easy option and grabbed BK for tea then to bed.
The next morning we braved the subway and headed to Park Guell. A beautiful park designed by the architect Gaudi. We just wandered around looking at the sites for sometime, check out the pics, here's a sample:
We then headed to look at two other buildings designed by Gaudi which again were very impressive. I'd actually seen photos of them before but it was still really special to see them in real life and see the proper scale! I haven't mentioned yet that it was a beautiful day! We ended the afternoon by spending several hours looking around the zoo, this was really a highlight! It's been years since I've been to a zoo and this one was great!
Exhausted we grabbed a quick dinner again and headed back to rest. I think Claire and I went for a quick walk to the waterfront after dinner as well.
The next morning we went to see yet another Gaudi work, the Sagarada Familia. This is a huge Temple that has been in construction since 1882. It's pretty hard to describe it really, you have to see photos... or better still go look yourself! There were such intricate details and huge interior columns, beautiful modern stained glass windows. And being in construction scaffolding everywhere!
We waited for about half an hour in the queue for a lift and it was so worth it! The lift went up to the top of one of the towers and then we walked down! Part way was through a scary spiral staircase where you could see right the way down if you leaned over. We all ended up at the bottom with wobbly knees!
After that amazing morning we headed to the Picasso museum to see an exhibition of his personal collection of paintings which was good. From here we headed to the waterfront which was beautiful and had a meal there. You can see out the window in the photo below the sea and reflections on it.
Anyway that very quickly sums up our wonderful trip to Barcelona. I would highly recommend it. They just seemed to be very concerned with art the beauty of things I loved the city!
:)
Mindy
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good work mindy. that did sum it up. i would appreciate a little bit more detail etc what we ate excatly and how much it cost and how about those weird cone crunchy things. love you!
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