Our apartment is a great modern place in a residential area close to the subway so we were all set. We spent the first day visiting all the big tourist sights in the city center from the Barri Gotica to the famous Las Ramblas street. Everywhere we go we try to eat the food that is authentic to that area so we have been dining at several tapas restaurants. Our second day was spent seeing some of Antoni Gaudi’s works of architecture around the city. We spent the morning at the Temple de la Sagrada Familia, which is a temple designed by Gaudi that is still being constructed and will not be completed for another 25+ years. Then we headed to the Park Guell overlooking the city, where Gaudi’s work is everywhere in the form of buildings, mosaics, fountains, etc. Yesterday was a casual beach and laundry day, then today we walked everywhere seeing the Olympic village from the ‘92 games along with the waterfront and the old town “ribera” neighborhood.
The people have been really friendly and we’ve done a good job of being cautious and not getting pick-pocketed yet this trip (knock on wood). The one thing we can’t figure out here is the store hours. It seems so random as stores open and close whenever they want to, and hardly anything is open on Sunday and all the city museums are closed on Monday which we just found out today.
It’s been a lot of fun and we have some good pictures to share. Enjoy…
1 comment:
it looks nice and sunny there. also, don't forget to eat soem of spain's exotics ham's, as i hear they're very tasty!! have a good time in spain, cohen
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