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July 31, 2006
Barcelona Report
Lag
There has been some lag on my blog posting with my current location. Sometime it´s hard to find time to blog when you´re travelling. Time is precious and when you have time often you want to visit the local park to read or just chill out rather than stuck in an internet cafe writing your blog post. I don´t want to leave it to far behind otherwise I would forget some stuff that I should have written it down.
The Party Town
It's hard to balance the going out and the sight seeing time in Barcelona. Barcelona is such a party town. In last blog post I wrote that the it might be a quiet stay for me in Barcelona because there's no common room in the hostel. Fortunately I met a few people in the room which is quiet cool and we went out three nights in a row. The hard work is that during the day we always did another big day walking around the town.
Most people are in party mode while in Barcelona. One night we met a bunch of Italian and Belgium and we party until the wee hours in the morning. Another night we met a super nice American couple and I almost go over my alcohol limit for the whole night.
In Barcelona you don't have to look for party, it will come to you.
La Sagrada Familia
It's strange that for a city as old as Barcelona the top sight is an unfinished church. Built in 1882, La Sagrada Familia is only half-built. The Nativity Facade done by Gaudi is truly weird. Maybe it's just not my style. I prefer the Passion Facade by Joseph Subirach. The entry is a bit expensive, for EUR8 you can enter the church while paying EUR1 more you can get into Gaudi's home in Parc Guel, another Gaudi creation which is listed in UNESCO world heritage list. A bit of warning, Parc Guel is a bit far from La Sagrada Familia. If you go in the late afternoon you may not make it to Parc Guel. From the metro station you still have to walk about 1.2km (sign posted) to Parc Guel.
Montjuic
The next day started very late, however I did manage to visit Montjuic. The main reason was to visit Joan Miro musem. I saw some of his works earlier and liked it. There is another musem in Montjuic that worth visiting according to LP and it is housed in one of the finest building in Barcelona, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. But having reached my museum budget for the day I didn´t go inside and just chilling out in the steps in fron to of the museum savouring the view of Barcelona.
Not far from MNAC, there´s a free museum (Ciaxa Forum) sponsored by Ciaxa, one of the big banks here in Spain. It´s pretty small museum but worth visiting since it´s free and when I was there they have a temporary exhibition about the history of animation. Spent a few hours there before heading back to the hostel.
Posted by vhadiant at July 31, 2006 12:44 PM
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