Thanksgiving weekend, Margaret, Mayra, Anne and I headed south to Barcelona.
Our first stop on Saturday morning was Casa Milà (or La Pedrera, which means The Quarry in Catalan), one of the apartments designed by Gaudí. The facade is curvy and other-worldly, with balcony railings fashioned out of twisted, ribbon-like metal.
We climbed up and toured one of the apartments that is now a museum. Most all of the rooms (except the maid's room) had big windows that let in lots of natural light, and every room was decorated with furniture and appliances from the beginning of the 20th century. At the top you can walk around the rooftop terrace, which has amazing views of the city.
These crazy shapes hide stairwells, vents, and chimneys.
Comme d'hab, I loved the details like this mélange of paint on one of the walls.
Next we headed to a covered market of the main street, Las Ramblas, called Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria. This graffitied wall was just outside the back of the market.
Inside there were rows and rows of stands bursting with fresh fruits, vegetables, bread, cheese, meat, and fish.
We picked up a loaf of this bread (so good), some grapes, apples, cheese, and champagne, and had a picnic by the Mediterranean for lunch.
And there was seemingly every kind of chocolate/ candy imaginable!
We stopped to eat our picnic and enjoy the sun (!!) on this pier at the Olympic Port.
Next we headed up to Sagrada Família, Gaudi's (still unfinished) cathedral. Warning: I'm obsessed. Lots of pictures to follow.
FYI none of these are edited. The sky was really just that blue.
The exterior is decked out with so many sculptures, its like playing real-life eye-spy. We even found escargot!
The inside is monumental, with beautiful stained glass windows.
The windows were all different shapes, projecting beautiful shadows everywhere.
The stone was such a beautiful color, especially in the afternoon light.
Next we headed up to Gaudí's Parc Guel to watch the sunset. It's on top of a huge hill and has great views of the city and the Mediterranean. I took this shot of Mayra and Margaret when we were riding the escalator up the last part of the climb.
This curvy balcony is also a bench that goes all the way around a large terrace area of the park. The surface was a mozaic of lots of different colorful ceramics.
The dusk looked like an illustration from Grandfather Twilight!
Sunset at Parc Guel was definitely a highlight. We climbed up as high as we could and had panoramic views of the whole city!
The next day, as we were winding our way to the Picasso Museum, we stumbled upon a Christmas Market.
It was so busy, and bursting with red and green.
Mistletoe!
The market was such a great and random surprise. Bilan: Barcelone, je t'aime.
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