Friday, July 07, 2006

a day of museum-ing

so yesterday was quite the day for me… i decided to hit up some museums and so i looked for some info online and found out about the chocolate musuem, and then i also found out that the museum nacional de catalunya was having their special summer night - when they opened the entire musuem from 7pm to midnight for free! free sounded good to me, so i planned on going to those two… i ended up seeing the picasso museum since it was rightnext to the chocolate one, and i ended up walking thru the parc de ciutadella (much like central park) on the way to the ‘arc de triomf’ which was where i needed to catch the metro.  i saw some old men playing games in the park and i talked with them and learned how - they were playing patancas, which is really like bocci ball, just smaller balls and 8 balls per team.

anyways, i have a whole heckuvalotta pictures, but i’ll add them to this post later.  i think that’s my new MO… put up the post first, attach pictures when they’re ready… that way it won’t take me five million years to post things =)


in the chocolate museum - a model of gaudi’s the sagrada familia


the waterfall in the parc de la ciutadella


the greenhouse in the parc


playing petancas in the park


cyclers headed towards the arc de triomf


the fountains outside the museum nacional.  the fountains were dancing to music! it was so cool!  you can see a small clip of the video i took… i’m still fairly far away so you can barely hear the song “barcelona” play over the speakers, and i can’t really capture the grandeur of it, but you get the idea…


Posted by kgrp on 07/07 at 10:46 AM
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