Joey and I had discussed about this issue before: What do foreigners do when they travel around? I mean we are from Asia country, France, Italy or Swiss seems so far away from our world, so sightseeing is our first priority. Spend a whole day visiting famous cathedrals or statues, seeing ancient ruins we had read in the text book. But what about people who lived in Europe? They might have been to this city for many times. What do they expect from revisit the city? Finding interesting bars? Most crowded clubbing place?
The fact is that, people of Europe, for example a french might not had the chance to visit so many places as I did in France. People are not as leisure as in our stereotype, travel or tossing around everywhere. Yes, there are some similarities but actually for them, visiting a foreign country is like to the world.
And the ways of travel depend on the personality. Somebody loves to walk around the city to collect every “spot” in town, or ramble on the anonymous street to see something unexpexted. Some likes to take breathe taking pictures even if he’s not following the team anyhow. And some would rather spend whole afternoon in a local cafe, just relax and observe the residents of the city.
@ Sagrada Familia 聖家堂
Barcelona fulfills everyone’s need.
We spent 2 days visiting the city of Barcelona, from the Guell Park to the beach. Especially the 2nd day in the city, it took us 7 hours of walking to see “some” of the prestigious Gaudi buildings. Our tour team consist of Mathias, the McDonald’s lover, Pascal, the stylish leather jacket with beach shorts, Deniz, the crazy paparazzi photographer and me, an amateur yet miss-guiding tour agent.
The most famous and influencial guy in Barcelona is Mr. Gaudi.
Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet (Catalan pronunciation: [ənˈtɔni gəwˈði]; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan[3] architect who worked during the Modernisme (Art Nouveau) period but became famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs regarded as beyond the scope of Modernisme.
Major works:
- Casa Vicens (1884–1885)
- Palau Güell (1885–1889)
- College of the Teresianas (1888–1890)
- Crypt of the Church of Colònia Güell (1898–1916)
- Casa Calvet (1899–1904)
- Casa Batlló (1905–1907)
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera) (1905–1907)
- Park Güell (1900–1914)
- Sagrada Família Nativity façade and Crypt of the Sagrada Família church (1884 until his death in 1926, although still under construction as of 2010)
It’s quite hard for us to visit all of his work in one day, but luckily the most of them were built on the same street, so as we wander down the street, heading for the beach, we saw so many grotesque yet modern archetects. Even nowadays people would feel his work is fanatical and non-sense, imagine 100 years ago, in a conservative society, this kind of art often regard as abnormal or evil.
Besides that, Barcelona got more. This city is the most beautiful city I’ve ever visited. Just grab your camera and randomly take photos, we will find that you won’t be able to delete any of them.
There were some famous artist from Spain, for example Picasso or Dali. We spent 1.5 hour in the museum of Dali, and it was like a fantasy world. Just like the theme in his paintings.
The night was also awesome.
We spent the first night in clubbing, I mentioned in the last post. And the second night was having fruit wine in La Rambla street, seeing everyone walking here and there, sipping the most expensive wine I ever had(15E each). And we went home by foot, walked all around the city in the midnight.
The third night was leading by Jura, or Nurji. The couple was nice enough to wait us in the cold windy night and took us to a great local bar to grab our supper. I’ve always enjoy talking to both of them, can’t tell the specific reason, but in Chinese it will be “Serendipity.”
Then we tried to find a nice club, but failed. Since most of us got drunk on the street, after 2 hours of non-objective searching, we took a cab to home.
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