For the last week of my Euro trip, my friends and I visited Barcelona & Ibiza, Spain. We had booked several tours, most of which were of Antoni Gaudi's work and one was an exhibit of Pablo Picasso's work (this place didn't allow any kind of photography though.) Barcelona is beautiful, although when we arrived, we found out the taxi's were all on strike against Uber's return to Barcelona, so getting transportation from the airport to our BNB was a little difficult. Luckily a shuttle driver who was looking for passengers at the airport strolled by us. He warned us that around the city center the Taxi's have main streets blocked off and that some taxi drivers have harassed Uber driver's vehicles. We ended up walking everywhere we needed to be, one day we walked at least 12 miles..in the heat. Regardless, we all still enjoyed ourselves as well as our time in Barcelona. And while Ibiza was our party time, I got to see some of Ibiza's beauty as well.
Park Güell
First stop of Antoni Gaudí's work in Barcelona. This park was a collaborative creation
between Eusebi Güell and Antoni Gaudí.
Sagrada Familia
The Sagrada Familia is an international centre for spirituality which, in an exceptional setting, invites people of all backgrounds and faiths to share in a sense of life based on love, harmony, good, generosity and peace.
La Pedrera (Casa Mila)
La Pedrera was a home for Pere Milà and Roser Segimon and was built by Gaudí. If you follow Gaudi's work, you'll come to understand his use of & respect for nature, its beings and elements. His work often times uses recycled materials, and structures will come to resemble form of nature, waves, a shell of an animal, a skeleton of a being, and constructed in order of maximizing the use of natural lighting.
Casa Batllo
Currently, Casa Batlló is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an icon of Barcelona, n essential stop to know the work of Gaudí and modernism at its best. It is also one of the best valued cultural and tourist attractions, hosting 1 million visitors a year.
Streets of Barcelona
With taxi's on strike against Uber, and my friends and I unsure of depending on their subway system to help us get around to destinations we had scheduled, we walked everywhere we needed to be. Along the way I admired much of the streets of Barcelona, and this is what I captured.
Ibiza
Basically, a party island. We came to see David Guetta, Eric Prydz, & Armin Van Buuren. We added a stop to see Alesso. Ibiza was a melting pot of beautiful people from all over. One thing I couldn't get use to was that the clubs didn't OPEN until midnight.. and they would stay open until basically the break of dawn. So there was maybe one day that we were able to function during the daytime, the rest of the time we spent resting only to be able to party at night.
