Barcelona: Sunday

Sunday was our last day in Barcelona. We started the day with another run (really really enjoying the dry, snow/ice-free streets), this time up to the Parc de Montjuic, which is an old fortress that was converted to a city park and used as the venue for the Olympics in 1992. We had fantastic views of the city:

 

Water!

 

Sunlight!!

And the Mediterranean:

 

Water!

 

Sunlight!!

Martin particularly enjoyed checking out the weaponry at the old fortress at the top of the hill. 

 

Trust him he's an engineer.

After our (again accidentally awesomely long) run, we headed to Park Guell, the other major Gaudi feature in the city. It was originally intended to be a sort of gated community, but the project was abandoned while it was still a park. It's a fairly big park on a hill, with Gaudi's nature-inspired architecture forming paths, bridges, and terraces.

 

The main entrance.

 

Some of the decorative medallions on the ceiling of the main forum.

 

Sitting on the cool benches around the main terrace.

After our adventure in Park Guell, we took the subway back to the city proper and walked around the Gótica district and grabbed lunch there. We were planning to go to the Picasso museum (which is free after 3pm on Sundays), but there was a really big line. Added to that, the neighborhood where it's located is really cool and needed more exploring, so we decided that was the way to go. We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering the area, before collecting our bags and heading to the airport. Once we got there, we promptly fell asleep waiting for our plane. When we got back to Zürich, it was still snowing.

Love Katie