The transfer from the airport was so easy, catching the aerobus. Once we arrived we walked down what Google maps thought was our street and sadly no hotel. Ben thought we best jump in a taxi before we get lost. The driver pulled out a map and said to us, that the street was the one we were on. He then looked again and drove us a 100 metres up the road. Five Euro and 2 minutes later we were at our hotel. Whoops. The hotel was in a great location, close to the Metro which was really easy to navigate around.
The first afternoon we went to the Ramblas, to the port and went through the old city. We were a bit overwhelmed with the crowds as Spain is really busy through Holy Week. Just off from the Ramblas was a great food market. We saw lots of fresh, still moving seafood.
After we explored we needed to adjust our eating clock to Spain time. Over here they don’t eat dinner until about 9pm. Too get through until 9pm we dropped into a bar for a small snack. It was a really tiny place with about 4 tables and a map of the world. People had pinned where they were from. No one from Brisbane had been so I drew our flag and placed it accordingly.
The second day was definitely the highlight for me. First we got up relatively early had coffee and breakfast and took the metro to a stop where you can catch a cable car up a mountain to get a view of the port and the city.
I also got to see Antoni Gaudi's famous buildings in the centre of the town. We went inside only one as the lines for the others were at least an hour. We went inside his first and most famous building which is covered in ceramic tiles. It was originally built as an apartment block. The building was built in the early 1900's it has lots of curves and interesting rooms. It is such a well thought through building with cut slits in the doors and walls to let in light and fresh air. In the middle of the building are two huge glass ceilings that let in so much natural sunlight. I never thought a building could be so interesting and I think Benny was quite pleasantly surprised it wasn't as boring as he was expecting. There was a great audio guide which helped you learn more about this great space.
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| These are the chimneys. |
The following two pictures are of Gaudi's other famous buildings, the "Casa Mila" and Gaudi's unfinished cathedral. The cathedral they are hope will be finished by 2026, after over 100 years of construction.
That evening we went for a tapas/cocktail crawl through various tapas bars with two of our friends who were also visiting Barcelona for the weekend.
The following day we picked up our car to drive to Valencia.
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