2005-03-27 - Easter in Barcelona


A VERY "Last Minute".com holiday to Barcelona.
A letter arrived 30 minutes before we left the flat, giving instructions on where to pick up the tickets at the airport!


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26-Mar-2005  12:32pm
 
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The pigeons love Sagrada Familia.
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Out the back
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The pigeons love Sagrada Familia.
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Walking up one of the towers.
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Approaching Gaudi's park
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The main entrance to Gaudi's park
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Betty did very well to photograph this with no people sitting on it!!...
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... she has a lot of patience!
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Although people mainly photograph all the _features_ of the park. The park is in fact mainly, a park! You could be fooled into thinking it's full of sculptures, but it's not: there are mostly paths to walk around, grass, gravel, cool landscaping, and the odd random perfectly-round bolder.
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The park was originally planned to be a setting in which houses would be built - but the housing project flopped, and it remained a park.
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Gaudi's house in his park - now a museum.
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25-Mar-2005  11:03am
 
A quick trip the wrong way on a train took us to this village...
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... so we looked around for an hour or two.