Barcelona sights
We arrived in Barcelona a few days ahead of Primavera, to give us a chance to see the sights and relax a little. It’s a compact city, although larger than I thought it would be, with a wide variety of flavours to the various districts. The weather has been variable, but never unpleasant.
It is a very clean city, they seem to constantly empty the bins on a daily cycle, and there are recycling stations everywhere. The architecture is wonderful. Not just the Gaudi, which is as astonishing as you’d expect, but there’s an adventurous sense to public space everywhere, interesting modern building nestling up against 14th century alleyways, and giant lumps of sculpture sprouting everywhere, in a manner you only rarely see in conservative old Britain.
We’ve mostly been rehearsing our body clocks for the ever so slightly mental 5pm-5am Primavera schedule, and so we’ve not done so much cultural sightseeing, or eating out. I figured it can wait until the now inevitable follow-up visit.
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Barcelona is looking good – I went there once too long ago to remember more than the Gaudi…
That 5-5 does sound crippling – I hope its more fun that it sounds!
A lot of the Gaudi we’ve been wandering through claims to have only been very recently open to the public, so perhaps there’s more of it for you to see now, if you made a repeat trip.
5-5 is only notional really, I think in practice it’s going to be more like 7-8 till 2-3 ish. And then sleeping in the day
My trip was a work trip so I only got to see a very little anyway… it was also when Barcelona was gridlocked as all the roads were being dug up prior to the Olympic games (glad I wasn’t driving!).
I have always thought a repeat trip would be fun… just not really been well enough…