Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: Barcelona
I'm Just came back from a week-end Barcelona for Valentine days. This city is definitly amazing, at once very Catalan, Spanish, European and cosmopolitan. At once the old medieval city of the "Barri Gotic", to the chic and 19th century's bourgeois districs of the "Eixample", passing from the "modernism (art nouveau)" of Domenech i Montaner and Gaudi to some of the best contemporary architecture of 20th...
Nice pics! Unfortunately, I hate Barcelona, mainly because it's so popular and everybody loves it so much. And my mental image of Barceona is very dominated by a Swedish travel guide to the city I once read, written by a respectable Swedish journalist who lived in Barcelona during the Franco era and apparently mainly hung out with prostitutes alias/or political dissidents. _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Why would anybody want to visit a graveyard on Valentine's Day? Sure, till death do us part, but let's enjoy ourselves in the meantime! _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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