{"id":249,"date":"2018-03-12T20:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-06-02T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T21:49:27","slug":"barcelona-part-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/barcelona-part-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona – Part Doh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That should be part deux, but Homer says it better\u2026.doh!, here\u2019s the stuff you expected! The most iconic face of Barcelona pictured above. Not some friggin\u2019 graveyard! This is what you do here. Visit Gaudi\u2019s most famous work, the Sagrada Familia. Unbelievably awesome doesn\u2019t do it justice. You really need to see this!<\/p>\n

So today that\u2019s what we did along with Casa Batllo and Casa Mila, Gaudi\u2019s other city landmarks. We didn\u2019t 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.
\nAnd it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re not sure we\u2019d want to live here though. Barcelona is big and bustling. And expensive. The walk today between the Casas\u2019 was on a wide boulevard lined with stores with names like Gucci, Armani, Burberry, Rolex, and Chanel. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen an actual Chanel store and walking in, in our khakis and backpacks didn\u2019t seem appropriate. So, we just window shopped and acted like we would buy some things if it wasn\u2019t all just so\u2026pedestrian.
\nSo, put Barcelona on your travel list. There\u2019s lots to see, great food, the weather\u2019s pretty nice, and well\u2026doh!, there\u2019s Gaudi.<\/p>\n

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  That should be part deux, but Homer says it better\u2026.doh!, here\u2019s the stuff you expected! The most iconic face of Barcelona pictured above. Not some friggin\u2019 graveyard! This is what you do here. Visit Gaudi\u2019s most famous work, the Sagrada Familia. Unbelievably awesome doesn\u2019t do it justice. You really need to see this! So today that\u2019s what we did along with Casa Batllo and Casa Mila, Gaudi\u2019s other city landmarks. We didn\u2019t 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\u2019s not just Gaudi you want to see. Barcelona is an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}