Our third day in Barcelona it was my birthday! So we took it a little easier so we weren’t so exhausted like the day before. The first sight we saw today was the Picasso Museum. In this museum you can see how the artist’s artwork changed and developed to the cubism that he is famous for. It was a very nice organized museum, divided into the eras of different types of artwork. We spent a good two hours in the museum and headed off to another Gaudí masterpiece, Hospital Sant Pau di Maig.
When we arrived at the hospital, we could see La Sagrada Familia, from the front of the hospital and realized we could’ve just walked there from the church yesterday if we wanted to. We took pictures of the hospital and unfortunately missed the last tour time but took our own initiative and walked around the hospital grounds on our own.
After the hospital we went to Gaudí’s very first building in Barcelona, Casa Vicens, which is currently privately owned and we couldn’t enter the home. When we got to the house we couldn’t believe that someone actually lived in that house and how much they must have paid for to own the home.
As we continued our easygoing day, we went to Barcelona’s beach, Barceloneta. Luckily, it had its own metro stop and we started walking on the beach boardwalk towards the beach itself. Barcelona’s beach reminded us a lot of Santa Monica’s Venice Beach. Our daughter nearly ran towards the beach as she doesn’t have access to any bodies of water in Madrid, and living in California with a beach that is 10 minutes away, not living with the beach is very hard to get used to. The funny part? Our daughter grew up west of Toronto, where winter is around more than 50% of the year with only three months of sunshine.
At the beach we met a man that was half Catalan and half Iranian. Sadly he had Parkinson’s disease so speaking to us in Farsi was very difficult for him. He was a very nice man and helped us out, telling us some history about Barcelona, the differences between Madrid and Barcelona and told us some sights to see if we have time in Barcelona and some more in Madrid.
When we got back to the apartment we were so tired that we just packed up for the next day and got ready to leave for Granada. But before we leave tomorrow, were going to FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium.
Ellie and Bahram Go to Spain 