23 | July | 2023 | Traveling Times

This morning we woke up and shortly after went out to get to our 10:00 time slot for Gaudi’s Casa Batlló. What an amazing place! I won’t post all the photos I took, but I have to share some because it truly is something to see!

Okay … must move on! …

Then it was lunch — tapas at what appears to be a food chain. But it was close, and it was air conditioned. And we needed that!

From there we walked up to the next Gaudi place, La Pedrera – Casa Milá. This, too, was mighty amazing, but I must admit I am more enamored with Casa Battló, even while it appears that Gaudi considered Pedera his masterpiece.

At both places we ended up on the room. I handled the first one pretty well, but on Pedrera I had to get off of it rather quickly. What is nuts to me is that originally there were no fences up on the roof at all. Eek! Dan stayed up longer … but I simply couldn’t! Prior to the roof we saw one apartment in the place. I can’t imagine living in something like this, but I’d certainly move in if it were offered to me! (Just no roof visits, thank you very much.)

Prior to the roof visit we were in the “attic”. Even there I was a little freaked: something about knowing we were so high up, I guess. But it was so interesting. Every arch is different … they say no two are exactly alike. I guess the maids did laundry up there. (I’ll gladly take a maid along with an apartment there.)

Prior to my freaking out and heading down some stairs that I wasn’t supposed to take (and it became so dark I had to pull out my phone and use the flashlight!), I did manage to take a few photos.

Can you imagine being up there with NO fences? I sure can’t.

I raced downstairs. No. I’m lying. I slowly went down the stairs … and had to take photos there as well: even the stairway was interesting! Then I was down in one of the two courtyards, waited for Dan, and we both saw the second courtyard before heading back to our hotel to enjoy some A/C and rest.

We headed to the Gothic Quarter for some dinner. I’d researched and read about a place that wasn’t supposed to be as tourist-y so we searched for that. On our way there someone from above dumped some water on me. At least it only appeared to be water! Was it just someone who likes to do that to tourists, I wonder? In any case, it definitely got my attention. Dinner was at La Vinateria Del Call. I really enjoyed it, and was glad we got in early so we had a quiet dinner for a while. From there we walked home, although I confess we did have ice cream cones. But hey, we walked a lot today, AND I was on TWO roofs which I think probably means I burned a lot of calories due to major fear.