3 Days in Barcelona

Wednesday 26 July 2017

3 o'clock in the morning.

We arrived at Schönefeld Airport completely disheveled and exhausted, from where the Ryanair plane took us to Barcelona 3 hours later.

Since we were already awake at this inhumane time, we thought we might as well have breakfast... for equally inhumane prices... 😒

We paid 10 euros for these few bites. Just saying...

Airport prices, good and all.

But 10 (!) euros.

For this??

Oh well. Let's leave it at that.

The flight was pleasant. And relatively quickly.

Usually I don't book seats with budget airlines, because they would almost exceed the actual ticket price... but with Ryanair I might make an exception one day.

Because they gradually develop a method of putting fellow travelers far away from each other.

Of course, purely coincidentally... 😏

The entire plane was empty, (yes, I'm exaggerating, it wasn't fully booked by any means) but hey, Jule and I were separated by 11 rows...

Only with luck did we manage to sit together in the end (at least on the outbound flight). And even at the exit.

So with plenty of legroom. 😎

During the flight, I was already dreaming of the Spanish sun.

This is the worst summer ever, if you ask me, and I desperately needed a break from it (like you probably do too).

After landing in Barcelona (still disheveled. And still tired.), I got a little shock.

It was a bit chilly and quite gray in the sky.

So we got into a taxi. Off to the hotel.

Dropped off our baggage (backpack) and headed towards La Rambla.

The Simon-Dach-Street of Spain.

This flair.

This hustle and bustle.

You immediately get swallowed up by this vibrant city.

Graffiti, street art, green parrots instead of pigeons flying around, relaxed people, sun... Everything to my liking.... 

As a first stop, I showed Jule the La Bouqueria.

It is the most beautiful market I have ever visited.

It has everything that pleases the palate.

Sweet temptations...

Meaty sins...

Almost everything that usually swims in the sea...

Healthy juices... fresh fruit and vegetables...

Nothing compared to the very peculiar markets you can visit in Asia. You can't go there without a nose clip....

Afterwards, we walked to the beach.

Passing the harbor, it takes about 25 minutes.

In the meantime, the sun finally came out. We had already forgotten how it feels.

So the rest of the day we spent either lying on the beach or exploring the city on foot.

By now, I've been here so many times that I could easily work as a tour guide....

We had everything:

Art (almost every door here is a piece of art, in my opinion) .... Food (... And I still can't appreciate Spanish cuisine as much)... Shopping (because it's simply a part of it)... Sightseeing... (without even looking for it, you constantly come across great architecture or historically significant buildings).. By the way, many of these can be attributed to Antoni Gaudi... Like no other architect before or after, he strongly influenced the cityscape of Barcelona.. Many of his buildings are now landmarks of the seaside city - first and foremost the Sagrada Familia, which we got a closer look at the next day and which you can see in the pictures... Barcelona is, by the way, the city with the most entries on the World Heritage List...

Learned something new, huh?! 🤓

By the way, on the first day we were already in bed at 8 pm.

Totally exhausted and disheveled.

Just like in the beginning. 

And just like that, we woke up the next morning at 6 o'clock.

We had booked tickets for Park Güell.

Another landmark designed by Gaudi.

Originally it was supposed to be a residential development.

'It is Gaudi's homage to nature,' people here say about it.

Located high above the city, the ascent is accordingly exhausting.

We were glad when we finally got in.

It is really like a little fairytale garden.

A perfectly integrated maze of paths, corridors, walls, columns and bridges.

Beautiful.

But also very crowded.

Even at this time.

And tourists (including ourselves, of course) can be quite annoying.

That's how it is in Berlin.

And that's how it was here too. :)

And because it's not particularly big, you can quickly go through it.

If you wanted to, you could go to Gaudi's former residence... But waiting times of more than 1 hour don't make it very attractive in my opinion...

So afterwards, we walked to his LIFETIME WORK...

The SAGRADA FAMILIA...

The eternal construction site... And if everything goes well, it will be finished around 2026...

Such an impressive building...

See for yourself...

By that time, it was getting late... We had to go to the airport... So we got into a taxi and ate something at the airport, then the plane took us back to the German capital...

Even more tired.

Even more disheveled.

But full of beautiful impressions and eager for another visit to this vibrant city.

One day.