Out at 09:30, breakfast at the patisserie again, 6 pastries and a coffee for 4.2 euro (3 pastries for 1.5 euro). Weather was sunny but pretty chilly, just about got away with t shirts. Took the metro to Parc Guell and Gaudi’s house museum. The park was originally supposed to be a housing development by Gaudi but in the end only 2 houses were built. The park was designed by Gaudi, and features lots of ceramics and curvy bits.
It was a bit of a walk from the metro station to the park, and when we got there it was already packed. Couldn’t take any photos without lots of bloody tourists in the way. The park was OK, would have been better if there hadn’t been so many people. The weather was perfect, it was sunny and had warmed up a lot. We’ve been really lucky with the weather this trip.
Walked back to the metro and took the train to the Casa Batllo, yet another Gaudi house but probably the best example. Wasn’t cheap to get in, over 20 euro each, but worth it I think. I’ve always liked art deco, but after seeing some furniture in the Louvre, I think I prefer art nouveau. This house is very art noveau. Lots of curves and arches. Well worth the visit.
Walked away from the touristy bits to look for somewhere to get lunch, but after 20 minutes couldn’t find anything so went back and just went to the first reasonable place we saw. Song had pizza, I had a burger. Pretty good but hardly traditional Spanish fare.
Went back down the main shopping street and Song went into Zara and bought another handbag. Not having bought one for a couple of weeks I think she was having withdrawal symptoms.
We were going to go looking for another Gaudi house but decided enough was enough and we both felt really tired so just caught the metro back to the room and crashed.