So we made it down to breakfast today.. which consisted of creepy little pre packaged toast.. the sweetest apple juice I've ever tasted (not in a good way.) and a little ...muffin? strange.
BUT It could always be worse.
The first thing on the agenda was the Picasso Museum, so after wandering down past the street vendors once again, that is where we headed. It was an awesome little museum, in the middle of the city, but not in a giant building that stuck out like a sore thumb, it was just part of a neighborhood, and had a little courtyard and was made of stone, very nice. It was strange though because whenever I think of Picasso, the very first thing that pops into my mind is Guernica, and abstract everything. However, as we learned, the majority of his art was actually not abstract or cubist, he only started those towards the very end of his life/career.
After Picasso, we went up to Park Guell (Also GaudÃ). There are really no words to describe what Park Guell is.. its basically just a big park on the top of a mountain in the city (no. really. we had to take escalators that were in the road because they were so steep), that was designed by Gaudà and at one point was supposed to be a little community, but that never ended up happening. Either way, its full of crazy things like gingerbread looking houses, and curvy benches around a little plaza type area, and EVERYTHING is a mosaic. I think the mosaic aspect is what impresses me the most. If you could see how much tiny broken pieces of color are all over this park, it is absolutely amazing. I cant even imagine how long it took to put it all together.
Park Guell took up a large chunk of time, so we headed home to change clothes (we have to change at night because it is still chilly at night, but hot during the day) and then tried to go to a magic fountain light show.. BUT the website lies, and it was over by the time we got there. SO instead we made an adventure out of it. We saw a giant circular building, and there was noise coming from its roof, but all the downstairs doors were locked, so what did we do? we found the outside stairs and climbed to the roof of this unknown building. When we got to the top we still had no idea what it was, but there were people wandering around, so it had to have been something good. We finally found a way inside, and realized that it was some sort of giant weird mall, so we explored! Then we headed home for our last night in Barcelona
BUT It could always be worse.
The first thing on the agenda was the Picasso Museum, so after wandering down past the street vendors once again, that is where we headed. It was an awesome little museum, in the middle of the city, but not in a giant building that stuck out like a sore thumb, it was just part of a neighborhood, and had a little courtyard and was made of stone, very nice. It was strange though because whenever I think of Picasso, the very first thing that pops into my mind is Guernica, and abstract everything. However, as we learned, the majority of his art was actually not abstract or cubist, he only started those towards the very end of his life/career.
After Picasso, we went up to Park Guell (Also GaudÃ). There are really no words to describe what Park Guell is.. its basically just a big park on the top of a mountain in the city (no. really. we had to take escalators that were in the road because they were so steep), that was designed by Gaudà and at one point was supposed to be a little community, but that never ended up happening. Either way, its full of crazy things like gingerbread looking houses, and curvy benches around a little plaza type area, and EVERYTHING is a mosaic. I think the mosaic aspect is what impresses me the most. If you could see how much tiny broken pieces of color are all over this park, it is absolutely amazing. I cant even imagine how long it took to put it all together.
Park Guell took up a large chunk of time, so we headed home to change clothes (we have to change at night because it is still chilly at night, but hot during the day) and then tried to go to a magic fountain light show.. BUT the website lies, and it was over by the time we got there. SO instead we made an adventure out of it. We saw a giant circular building, and there was noise coming from its roof, but all the downstairs doors were locked, so what did we do? we found the outside stairs and climbed to the roof of this unknown building. When we got to the top we still had no idea what it was, but there were people wandering around, so it had to have been something good. We finally found a way inside, and realized that it was some sort of giant weird mall, so we explored! Then we headed home for our last night in Barcelona
Picture of the day 1: oh you know.. just riding the escalator.. up the road.
Picture of the day 2: Park Guell from above, those are all the curvy benches, and when you look at the front of them, they are completely covered in mosaics
Picture of the day 3: is he a lizard? is he a dinosaur? I dont know. but he's famous.
Picture of the day 4: Main entrance to Park Guell
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