Barcelona, Spain

During September I slept in many beds. Here's a photo board of my trip....
If you are interested there are a couple of new posts in the Street Art section to the right >>  

Okay, well, on to something else. Last stop BARCELONA. Love this city.

There are curious man giraffes

And houses worth 27 million Euros.

Why couldn't all Shopper's Drug Marts look like this? 

Ham everywhere.

I went to the opera

No kidding... that's me. I saw the Barber of Seville in Barcelona. How ironic is that? 

Saw a big church 

And it wasn't Sagrada Familia

More art 

A elevator the size of a telephone booth. Remember those? Telephone booths not elevators. 

Here's a dog named Mona. I spent the week with her. 

Close to Mona's house is a bull ring turned shopping mall. That's progress.... I guess. 

Barcelona has small narrow streets.

Streets that have the memories of past conflicts with bullet pock marks in the walls. 

Comfortable bars.

Impressive building facades

Inviting doorways

Awesome ceilings

A model of a hospital 
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner a contemporary of Gaudi. 

The actual hospital

The front facade. 

Buildings and gardens where patients stayed. The idea was that if the place was beautiful and there were gardens for patients to look at or walk in, then they would get better quicker. What a novel idea! 

I think all hospitals should have pink tiled ceilings

And there should be hallways covered in mosaics

I went to this house, Casa Lleo also designed by Montaner and it had  mosaic covered walls

Many mosaic covered walls

Their dining room was stunning,
(photo from when the house was used in early 1900's) 

with many stain glass windows,

all depicting scenes from nature,

because it made them feel relaxed.

Too much beauty ...

Can leave you breathless.