Gardens and Moorish architecture on the hill After arriving in Granada, Spain and looking up at it for a day, we finally got to see the Alhambra in all its glory. It took some climbing from our AirBnb accommodation in the old Arab neighborhood called The Albaicin Quarter. (I mean serious hill and stair climbing,…
Staying another few days to make sure we saw the inside of the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family, I believe) was such a good decision. We missed our first chance when we bought tickets to enter during a strike and found all entrances to the Sagrada closed due to a sit-in. Our accommodations noware not as…
We were more tired than we realized. So, yesterday we just visited a couple of the Gaudi apartment buildings on Paseig de Garcia, a short walk from our current apartment. Gaudi was so amazing. We took the tour of the Casa Batllo and we learned so much about him and his work. I had no idea…
Here are the promised Barcelona photos. Place de la Catalunya (for some reason this was black and white and I kind of like it) The Arch de Triumf (I didn’t know that there were more than one; perhaps they are everywhere in Europe) The view from Montjoic (the Mountain of the Jews) at the front…
We have been in Barcelona for several days now, since November 6. What a lovely city! I’ve taken lots of photos, but the wifi in this AirBnb (along with a few other things) is not good. It’s only a place to sleep, after all. So, I will have to upload photos when we get to…
Laundry started, we headed for Reina Sofia this morning, eager to see everything. There was only one snag, the museum is closed on Tuesdays. It seems that you can do lots of research and miss some rather crucial bits. We were SO disappointed, but this last museum on our Paseo de la Arte pass can…
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