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Barcelona

After Cor left, it was just me, Cin and Zhu for our Barcelona trip. Weather in Barcelona was gooood... sunny with cool cool breezes. Nice! Cin loves Barcelona the most, and largely due to the food. We love their Tapas and Paellas (yummy!) and alcoholic Cin finished almost 1 litre of Spanish Sangria on our second day during lunch!! applause! Think Zhu and I were hoping we need not carry a drunken Cin back to our hotel. hehe there are many street buskers on the main shopping street La Rambla which was very interesting. Unfortunately we did not go crazy in Mango & Zara.. no sale and... whoever told us it was dirt cheap in Spain?! On hindsight, good lah so we could save some money. Barcelona is just oozing with Gaudi's works. He was their famous architect with interesting looking buildings under his belt.

We love our hotel

Our Barcelona guide.  book.

Our Mini Barcelona itinerary
Day One

Musee Picasso
 



There was a temporary exhibition on Velesquez and we enjoyed this very much, looking at how various famous painters like Picasso idolised his works, and made so many variations of it.

Sagrada Familia (the most famous unfinished cathedral by Gaudi)
Do you think it looks a bit.. creepy?

What about this shot?  Well I do!  Sorry Gaudi.


Casa Butllo (Gaudi)

Casa Milla (Gaudi)


We just took some pics outside

I take you, you take her


Monjuic (the magic fountain.. tacky!)
On our way up to get good seats, only to get disappointed eventually


Reminds you of Sentosa?

Day Two

Parc Guell - we love this place and took many silly pictures

























Olympique Stadium... where... we. err gave up halfway

and decided just to take pictures of the city from the top


La Rambla/ Parel-lel/ Diagonal for shopping streets where we hit Zara

Tapas for dinner - love it!



 Day Three
Leisure/ Shopping day.. nothing much coz we were too tired.


umm my splurge at LV.. moving right along!

Loewe boutique at Diagonal.

Street artists in action

street artists along La Rambla outside our hotel
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Right now, zooming off to meet Cin and Zhu for a home cooked dinner :)
Cin wants to make her own version of Sangria tonight. See I told you she is alcholic ;)

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