My trip to Barcelona

I recently visited Barcelona, Spain for 5.5 days. This was my first trip to Europe and I had 5.5 absolutely wonderful days there. What follows is an account of my trip day by day. Its more of a subjective experience and not an objective how-to-see Barcelona thing. There are plenty of those already online. Come to think of it, there are plenty of subjective narratives as well...at least the subject differs though.

Judging by my rate of posting, I am probably going to get a day of my trip posted per week.

Warning 1: Most of my trip is like a pilgrimage filled with architecture- after all Barcelona is the city of Gaudi and my photos reflect my obsession.

Warning 2: The following words have been grossly overused: Nice, Good, Beautiful, Wonderful, Amazing, Gorgeous, Spectacular, Splendid. Yes, my trip was really that good.

Day 0.5 (The first evening in Barcelona)


We reached Barcelona only at 6pm, thanks to a missed flight enroute. Our trip was unremarkable and filled with sleep and bad food.

Our evening started with dinner at a charming little Lebanese restaurant(the name of which we've both forgotten). There we dined on falafels, pita bread and cardomom tea. Food was good and the ambience was different. The cafe seemed to be filled with locals, who would probably head for the movie theatre next door later. We even saw a Bangaldeshi cook who offered to cook us anything our hearts desired. Unfortunately by that time, we had already eaten dinner and couldn't take him up on his offer.

After dinner we took a long walk passing by a sculpturesqe Placa Espanya and entered a lighted avenue with several small luminous founains leading to a bigger, dynamic, beautifully lit magic fountain - Font Montjuic . We sat there, enjoying the changing shapes and colours of the fountain and the incredibly pleasant weather. After a while we walked partway up the stairs leading to the Museu Nacional D'art De Catalunya. From there, we got a nice view of the entire lighted approach and the city beyond. The whole atmosphere was festive. There were several coffee shops and a lot of people were walking around even at half past midnght. There was even a concert on a roadside with a crowd gathered around. After clicking a ton of photographs we walked back to our hotel room at Barcelo Sants.