That should be part deux, but Homer says it better….doh!, here’s the stuff you expected! The most iconic face of Barcelona pictured above. Not some friggin’ graveyard! This is what you do here. Visit Gaudi’s most famous work, the Sagrada Familia. Unbelievably awesome doesn’t do it justice. You really need to see this!
So today that’s what we did along with Casa Batllo and Casa Mila, Gaudi’s other city landmarks. We didn’t make it to some of the others but these 3 were enough (another 10km) for one day. It can be a bit of sensory overload.
And it’s not just Gaudi you want to see. Barcelona is an amazing architectural city of different styles, blended and mashed together; buildings seemingly grown right out of the sidewalks. Architectural creativity abounds here and everywhere you look there is some other apartment, hotel, or office building flowing with ornate cornices, facades, gargoyles, and sculptures of every sort. It gives a sense of a city that is alive. Barcelona seems to embrace all this structural diversity, unlike some cities I know with zoning regulations, building codes, and general sterile looking office towers.
We’re not sure we’d want to live here though. Barcelona is big and bustling. And expensive. The walk today between the Casas’ was on a wide boulevard lined with stores with names like Gucci, Armani, Burberry, Rolex, and Chanel. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actual Chanel store and walking in, in our khakis and backpacks didn’t seem appropriate. So, we just window shopped and acted like we would buy some things if it wasn’t all just so…pedestrian.
So, put Barcelona on your travel list. There’s lots to see, great food, the weather’s pretty nice, and well…doh!, there’s Gaudi.
Gary, who knew you had such a literary gift of the gab.
Apparently…thx! Maybe I’ll do some freelance journalism…might pay better than computer work, lol.
Sorry to hear the weather has cooled down some but that is life..The pictures are really fantastic and we are amazed by a house that is 150 years old. You won’t want to come home.
I just got it together to search up your blog and WOW! This form of travel (virtual) is really the “cheap seat” of which you wrote.
Love your writing style and artistic photo eye! Thank-you.
And now I head down the flowing brown roadway to the barn to feed the horses some exquisite breakfast. No charge, no people and no traffic.
I happen to know one horse who will be very animated to see me!