FUN-travel: Barcelona, Spain – Day 5
September 25, 2012 by Susan Clarke
Trip Day 54 – Monday, September 3 – Barcelona, Spain
Casa Milà
What I LIKE
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- 8:00 – more good free coffee downstairs
- pack up for noon checkout
- Renaissance @ airport is only $90 Euro
- 12:00 – lunch @ Nello’s next door – fried eggs with ham & French fries, tuna belly salad (their hamburgers look really good)
- 1st stop – Casa Milà – Gardi’s 1906 residence – no senior discount – $20 Euro with audio guide –75 min tour well worth it
- like 4 tours in 1 since it covers his other famous ventures in Barcelona that we saw
- full tour includes:
- 1. the rooftop – 30 chimneys on multi level roof with a roller coaster of melting-ice-cream eaves
- 2. the attic – parabola-shaped arches – served as laundry & storage space for tenants – also used for ventilation keeping things cool in summer & warm in winter
- also filled with photos, models & videos of his work
- 3. the apartment – fully decorated – center atrium maximizes light in the apartments
- 2:30 – back to hotel
- 3:00 – taxi to Renaissance – good time to go – traffic is light – only costs $25 Euro
- 4:00 – happy hour!
- 7:15 – dinner @ downstairs bar – hamburger – really YUMMY! – curry chicken & rice
- 10 pm – attempt sleep
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What I DIDN’T LIKE
- use Gallery computer to check in for flight – only problem it’s in Spanish
- staying @ airport hotel
- paying for internet
- no siesta – need to sleep tonight
- 2 & 3:30 am wake up – afraid to miss wakeup call
FF (FUN-fact) – Antoni Gaudi’s most famous work is his unfinished super-sized church Sagrada Familia. He labored over it for 43 years until his death in1926. Gaudi drew his inspiration from nature incorporating form, texture & color into everything he did.
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