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Barcelona, the works of Gaudi What a night! Our convenient double air bed goes flat all the time and on the beach there is a group of youths having a party.

Barcelona

Elisabeth & Teije
2004-03-06 16:52:44

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walk towards Parc Güell, another masterpiece designed by Gaudi.

It is quite a climb to the park, but fortunately there are escalators, just in the open air. But the walk is very rewarding: the view from the park over the city is marvellous. Why doesn't Holland have such splendid buildings, sceneries, parks, etcetera???

Gaudi created this park in harmony with nature, it is almost a unity. No beauty committee could have any criticism about a park like this. Maybe we should hire a foreign architect to fit Holland up a bit (with mountains and so)...

You will have noticed: we are not very enthousiastic about the Netherlands. Our social security system is very good, the wages are fine, but to us Holland belongs to the top-10 of most boring countries in the world when one only looks at architecture and nature!

Thursday 14 June, Barcelona, the Ramblas And again we go by bus to the centre and buy a day ticket. It is the cheapest and easiest way to travel through Barcelona. First we walk up to Montjuic and the nearby Olympic Stadium. One likes it or not. Teije has been to the Olympic village at Montreal and he found that much more impressive. We even don't take a picture... but we are not really sport fanatics.

We like the old centre of Barcelona much better. Here the cathedral of Barcelona; not Gaudi's creation, but the original one, situated in the medieval quarters of the city with narrow alleys with lots of peculiar shops and houses.

And of course we have to walk over the Ramblas. The tradition of the living statues appears to originate in Barcelona and there are many on the Ramblas. Obviously, the art is copied and living statues can now be found in any major European city. But we have never seen so many of them at one place before and are quite impressed by some of them.

Sometimes you only notice after some time that a statue isn't a statue but a living being. Apart from them, the Ramblas offers a vivid variety of entertainment, market stalls and outdoor cafés. We spend a few hours just looking at everything that goes on.

We return quite late to the camping, tired, but satisfied and decide to make up a list of everything we want to see the next time we will come here again. Two days is too short a period to see all there is to see. Yesterday we already have decided to return one day to Barcelona, but we don't know then it will be within a few months! You can read more about it on the Barcelona-pages. Well, at least we have seen a bit of this city, on our way to Portugal!