Day 4: Parc Guell and the beach

Another day of walking ourselves to death! :) I don’t know why we do this when we travel but I think we should win an award for most steps taken during a 9 day vacation! Our destinations today included the Parc Guell and the beach (of course)! So we got up, got our delicious breakfast and ate at the technology school right next to our hotel. The grounds and buildings of the school are very beautiful so it was a great place for some breakfast! :)

One of the buildings at the Technology school

After breakfast it was back to the metro station to get over to the Parc Guell. This was suppose to be one of the best parks to visit in the city and again full of Gaudí’s works. I came prepared with water and snacks because the book said the park was on a hill that you had to walk up to get to the park. So we walked up and up and up and then finally got to the park where there was another hill to walk up and up and up! By the way, remember how I said it was HOT while we were traveling, well, even though it was only 11am we were dying by the time we got to the very top of the hill, but it was all worth it because the view was spectacular!!!!! We could see all of the city and the Mediterranean! Because it was so hot it was kind of hazy but we still knew what we were looking at. We continued to explore the park and got to see where Gaudí lived and more of his designs. We saw the famous iguana fountain made of mosaic and all the other buildings which was really cool. The park was absolutely beautiful and I think one of my favorite non-beach aspects of Barcelona!

After climbing up way too many hills we finally made it to the top and this was the view! Someone was nice enough to take a picture after Joe took one for him.

View of Barcelona and the Mediterranean and Me!

And Joe :)

See that hill in the distance, all the way up there, up that's where those
first few pictures were taken! What a walk!

The park


More park


Gaudí’s house

The buildings at the main entrance of the park

The famous Iguana Fountain

We headed back to the hotel, got some sandwiches and then got ready for the beach! We were able to spend 4 and a 1/2 hours there and it was wonderful! We managed to snag some chairs and an umbrella which made it a lot nicer for the afternoon. We swam several times and just enjoyed soaking up the sun! It was perfect!

We went back to the hotel, got ready and asked for some restaurant recommendations for dinner. By this point it was only 8:30 and the restaurant suggested to us wasn’t open. We had a difficult time finding anything open at all and ended up at a Pizza place that wasn’t the greatest but at that point we were so hungry we didn’t care. It was kind of frustrating but I guess because we weren’t in the tourist area they wouldn’t have the restaurants open earlier. It was a little disappointing but we managed. :)

Back to the hotel we went to get some sleep so we could enjoy our final day in Barcelona!