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We spent three days in Barcelona, staying in the main tourist area and seeing the sights. This city grows on you. We saw it from two great vantage points: Montjuic, which houses the Joan Miro museum and commands a great view over the port; and Park Guell where Antonio Gaudi lived and worked for many years, which gives another view over the city centre. It is quite a coincidence that the English word gaudy is so similar to Gaudi's name. Gaudy is certainly a word that comes to mind when looking at the many works of this famous architect that dot the city. I say this not in a pejorative sense - Gaudy's work is stunning and fun. One can say the same about Miro's art which has a child-like and impish quality to it. Even some of Picasso's work in the Barcelona museum is outright funny, notably his series on Pigeons which made me laugh out loud. We travelled quite a bit in the efficient Metro system and I was surprised at how few signs there were of the unemployment shock that has engulfed Spain in recent years. Catalan unemployment is up at 20% but people seem to be getting by. In metro systems you spend a lot of time looking at people's shoes and there were very few that looked in bad disrepair. Actually my old sandals looked worse than most! The QSL is from Cadena SER Barcelona heard on AM 828 in Johannesburg in 1991.
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We spent three days in Barcelona, staying in the main tourist area and seeing the sights. This city grows on you. We saw it from two great vantage points: Montjuic, which houses the Joan Miro museum and commands a great view over the port; and Park Guell where Antonio Gaudi lived and worked for many years, which gives another view over the city centre. It is quite a coincidence that the English word gaudy is so similar to Gaudi's name. Gaudy is certainly a word that comes to mind when looking at the many works of this famous architect that dot the city. I say this not in a pejorative sense - Gaudy's work is stunning and fun. One can say the same about Miro's art which has a child-like and impish quality to it. Even some of Picasso's work in the Barcelona museum is outright funny, notably his series on Pigeons which made me laugh out loud. We travelled quite a bit in the efficient Metro system and I was surprised at how few signs there were of the unemployment shock that has engulfed Spain in recent years. Catalan unemployment is up at 20% but people seem to be getting by. In metro systems you spend a lot of time looking at people's shoes and there were very few that looked in bad disrepair. Actually my old sandals looked worse than most! The QSL is from Cadena SER Barcelona heard on AM 828 in Johannesburg in 1991.
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