- barcelona, part one
I've been in Barcelona for a day and a half. We are planning on staying for 2 more days. I'd have to say that Barcelona is an interesting city. It is made up of a variety of terrains. Part of the city climbs up the mountains that surround the area. Another side is bordered by the Mediteranean Sea. Imagine steep hills, mountains, beaches, highrises, gothic quarters, castles, olympic stadiums and the busy city itself and you have barcelona. Yesterday I went inside the Casa Mila by Gaudi and I looked at the Sagrada Familia from the outside. I spent my evening on the beach, staring at the waves and participating in one of those conversations when everyone speaks of their hypothesis of all of the wonders of the world.
Saturday I went to the German Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. I have heard, read and studied so much of this man that it was almost awarding to see what i believe his best peice of architecture. I spent 2 hours there sketching away.
I went to the Olympic games stadium and large entrance way, when i say large I mean large...the staircases had to be broken up into smaller staircases. We walked aways up a hill to a medieval castle. The most fascinating part there was seeing the city in arial.
In the evening I met up with a friend from UIC who is studying in Spain for the year. She took us out to a plaza where we ate french food and watched these entertainers being goofy. A little later we went out to a jazz lounge which was modern and fun, later to a club in the plaza, but it appeared to be mostly ghetto. Somehow I got seperated from, the group here and I thought they all left, therfore I left. And when I returned back to the hotel I did not see the group. I spent a half hour looking for them at the plaza. And they spent a half hour looking for me in the club....in the end we all found eachother when we awoke the next morning in our hostel.
shandar | 11:14 AM
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