Talk about it! Everytime the conversation went anywhere in the vicinity of where we should/were going, I would try to steer it to Barcelona.
I wanted more Gaudi. I wanted cava bars. I wanted Barcelona.
The nagging eventually paid off, albeit for one night and a half day, but I milked that time!
We got a great apartment with plenty of room for all of us.
Grandom Suites come with a big recommendation from me.
Comfortable, very-well equipped, and with a self-service snack room without any mini-bar price list because it's all free!
Ok, it's just coffee, tea, juice, water, biscuits and small cakes, but when you are travelling with kids, this is what they always want. It's such a drag having to pay for bottled water in restaurants, when they are more than happy with tap water, and to have juice and hunger-savers when you are on the move to go exploring, and it's not lunch for another hour, is so perfect.
The staff are super-friendly and helpful, too. I wish we could have stayed a week.
Dinner out for India – snails.
For me, I get to go to a cava bar
Where the food is brought out from the kitchen, introduced, offered, and free to take. To pay, it works like a revolving sushi bar where they count your plates, only here they count your toothpicks. Yummy food, too!
Of course, the cava was yummy too.
Then we went to another cava bar
Cava tasting with ice-cream. Mint with choc-chips. Not exactly a palate-cleanser, but the kids liked it.
Next morning 'Mummy' and 'Sonny' took us out for coffee and a quick whip around Barcelona streets.
I love the stonework detail, and the iron at the top.
I got the impression this guy was bathing there, at the fountain, while he spoke to the pigeons.
Gaudi's Casa Batllo Apartment building, as it stands next to a pretty spectacular-looking building, in it's own right. It would have to be one of the coolest places to live, don't you think? Living in art.
The inside looks equally impressive, but I didn't make it in. You'll have to google images.
'Renovated' by Gaudi in 1877, I find it phenomenal that someone could create something so modern and out there at that time.
Beautiful windows
Love.
Details. Everywhere
The cruel twist in this fantastic morning jaunt around Barcelona was that there was so much I wanted to see, and so little time. Everywhere I looked there was more I wanted to see! Dali here, Miro there, Calder's Mercury Fountain, so many shops…
Barcelona is such a dynamic and vibrant city. Younger and more daring than Paris or Rome, with beaches on it's doorstep and ski-fields so close. It has been my favourite city to visit so far – as quick as it was.
I'll just have to go back.
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