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If you pay the entry fee, you can enter La Sagrada
Familia and walk the winding
stairways which lead up into the building's towers. Despite the
busloads of touristas in the main entrance of the church, very few
appear to take advantage of the views from the towers (which I thought
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a bit of a novelty for me, I began to amuse myself by taking pictures
at odd angles. Here's a view from inside the base of
one of the towers. |
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The stairway becomes a tight spiral as you continue up
to the top of the spire. Here's an artsy shot looking straight up the
stairwell. That's my wife peering down from above, trying to determine
what I'm up to. |
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| The structures in the Park Guell, were
also
designed by Gaudi and were completed in 1914. They features typical Gaudi-isms
such as leaning columns, cantilevered arches and the use of natural
materials and ceramics. |
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Another photo in the park. |
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If you guessed that this gate was also a Gaudi design
you wouldn't be wrong. I just thought it
was sort of cool looking in an 'Alien' kind of way. |
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Just some random thoughts about Spanish food in case
you ever think of traveling there. |
- Breakfast is typically crunchy toast with butter or jelly, lunch
occurs between 1 - 3pm and appears to consist mainly of beer, dinner
is served very late, between 9pm - midnight.
- If you order coffee, you don't get free refills.
- Peanut butter is a foreign concept. You can't buy it anywhere.
- Paella (a rice dish, typically served with mussels and shrimp)
is pretty good, but contains shells which pose a hazard to your
teeth if you're not careful.
- Tapas bars serve a wide variety of little snacks. Some of which
are very yummy.
- Nestle has dominated the ice cream market throughout Europe and
is variously known as: Good Humor, Frigo, Esso, and Ola. They have a
variety of sexy ice cream print ads that they'd never get away with
using in the puritanical US - think of the children!
- There are many shops in Barcelona (even at the airport)
dedicated to selling whole cured pig's legs, but they aren't cheap.
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