Honeymoon Day 9
Today's our first full day in Barcelona, and oddly, my first time drinking fresh pressed orange juice. I don't know how I've made it 31 years in my life without a fresh orange juice, but somehow, I did! It's delicious!
The weather in Barcelona is absolutely perfect, it's sunny and 60 and this is where we wanted to come to in order to relax at the end of a long trip, but we aren't exactly doing a great job of this, as we're planning to walk across the entire city, no big deal!
We started by walking up the hill to the National Gallery, which was closed, as it was Monday. Probably should have Googled that first, but realistically today is an exploring day and we were up for a nice walk through the Montjuic area. The gardens here are beautiful, parrots are everywhere, and there's even some cute water fountains and waterfalls:
We made it up to the Castle at the top of Montjuic, and it's still an active fortress today, (like the Tower of London, it's mostly a tourist destination, but is still active for military service if needed). It's built on a huge hill overlooking the Balearic sea. Here's Molly standing in a guard tower:
Me overlooking Barcelona:
Barcelona looks a lot like LA in a way, it's huge city stuck between some massive hills and a giant body of water.
Dinner back over by the hotel, Paella is delicious.
Joe
The weather in Barcelona is absolutely perfect, it's sunny and 60 and this is where we wanted to come to in order to relax at the end of a long trip, but we aren't exactly doing a great job of this, as we're planning to walk across the entire city, no big deal!
We started by walking up the hill to the National Gallery, which was closed, as it was Monday. Probably should have Googled that first, but realistically today is an exploring day and we were up for a nice walk through the Montjuic area. The gardens here are beautiful, parrots are everywhere, and there's even some cute water fountains and waterfalls:
We made it up to the Castle at the top of Montjuic, and it's still an active fortress today, (like the Tower of London, it's mostly a tourist destination, but is still active for military service if needed). It's built on a huge hill overlooking the Balearic sea. Here's Molly standing in a guard tower:
Me overlooking Barcelona:
Barcelona looks a lot like LA in a way, it's huge city stuck between some massive hills and a giant body of water.
After the nice walk through Mountjuic, we took our time heading down through more of the parks and gardens on our way to the old part of town, the Gothic Quarter. When we were walking down one of the side streets, we saw a familiar sight:
Apparently Cheers is an Irish Bar. We checked out a lot of shops, I bought a Barcelona jersey, and then we checked out the Cathedral. It's a gorgeous old church, but it's nothing compared to what we'll see tomorrow. We walked through a Gaudi exhibit and bought passes to see La Segrada Familia, which is the big church. Here's a couple photos of the Cathedral:
Joe
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