barcelona

ok today we are off to barcelona. i mixed up the 2 days of photos since there werent any ont he first day. or much rather. sooo today we are going ot go back to some art cause well. barcelona has gaudi who is.. famous. sooo off to tourist attractions

i cant remember much about most of these historical things so excuse the lack of information

there are all of gaudi's art work. if you can't already tell he is an architect( lol huiling) and he designed and built all these houses. the first one is a huge monument that is still building to date. gaudi worked on it hile whole life but couldn't finish it. so the government has set orders to continue it's building. you can see construction sites all over the place.

the details are impeccable in there and its so detailed you really wonder why bother when its so high up and no one can see it!

there is this number plate thing where all the numbers in the highlighted row/column/arrangement add up to 33. i think its a christian thing, not sure of the significance but it is interesting!

in the garden, we actually had to climb a REALLY steep slope up. i'm talking 45 degrees and what not. thank god half way up they installed escalators! ( an advancement i noticed only in barcelona, not in paris) it was wonderful though. yay no more tired legs. i wanted to go the garden badly since it was a spot of many films the minute they went to barcelona. its iconic. the mosaic and the waves. i remember a season of america's next top model went there for their final runway. and i stood there! so cool! and i think the cheetah girl's had a movie scene there as well.

after that kind of walked around barcelona more. i relaise there are many wonderful buildings in the city which is quite amazing. they just suddenly pop out from nowhere. and bam there is this colourful building. even gaudi's buidlings were just smack int he middle of a busy area. im not sure who these are made by, but they are colourful!

this is the market and must i say it holds a large array of things from fruits ( tropical ones too!) to spices to gelato(ice cream) to seafood. you name it they got it. and all at reasonable prices. when i got to barcelona one thing i found was that their strawberries are. oh my god sinful sweet gems. they are literally so sweet its like you dipped them in sugar! plus they are sooooo much cheaper than those you get in singapore. and thats saying something what with the exchange rates.

at night we went to eat one of the top can't remember rank restraunts and had that rice seafood thing. its really yummy! every night my dad researched up the top ranking restraunts and we had our meals there ( freeinternet in hotel the joy) and the hotel had double decker bed and jaccuzi. soo haha its fun

lol next stop venice!