Thursday, February 23, 2006

call the bomberos ! there's a unicorn stuck on that buttress

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posh barcelona c.1500

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comings ...

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... and goings



via the lovely 4 gats restaurant

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go to the lovely opera house ...

palau de la musica catalana

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... by day or by night ...

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... with it's wonderfully planned cafe

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passeig de gracia pavement ...

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... with the shadow of a low flying pigeon

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whilst i sympathise with those who suffer vertigo, it would be hard for anyone to imagine ...

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... to think of a more interesting ...

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... or to name me a better rooftop than gaudi's casa mila

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when they finish the restoration, i would love to be up there in the moonlight with the loved one, & a crate of cava !

pretty in pink

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barcelona's other cathedral ...

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another kind of heaven

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co-incidentally, christopher columbus is pointing to the airport

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issa gehryfish, ennit ?

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barceloneta back flip

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this'll make yer hair curl !

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typical barcelona posers

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holiday reading material

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

all the new bits of the sagrada familia are moulded concrete

whatever shapes the current builders design, closely following gaudi's original scheme of things, their brilliantly clever modern concrete moulding techniques can never look good against his traditional workers' original hand-carved stonework

this project could have kept an army of catalan masons in work for another century or more

it vexes me almost as much as real madrid's selling claude makelele to chelsea, or tony blair privatising the hospital oxygen supply

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from the giddy staircases of the sagrada familia to that perplexingly late intrusion, torre agbar

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on your right, ladies & gentleman ...

montserrat ... la rambla ... torre agbar ... the mediterranean !
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there's a big tree at the end of the drive ...

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