It’s time for our next big adventure, this time to Spain and southern France! Big adventures are harder these days now with a crazy 17 month old toddler in tow that has her own agenda which involves wiggling and causing chaos. Despite that, I still took a ton of pictures that necessitated breaking the trip into two posts!
Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona is well known for its architecture and Casa Batlló is one of the centerpieces by Antoni Gaudí.
The next day we went for a stroll on La Rambla and through the gothic quarter like all good tourists do when in Barcelona.
As a way to escape the mid day heat we went to the White Rabbit, “The Off-Museum of Barcelona” which ended up to be pretty fun and a good place for Quinn to play and get some energy out.
Next up was taking a tour of the unmistakable Sagrada Família, still not quite done after 143 years of construction.
The night before we didn’t sleep all that well since it turned out to be Saint John’s Eve which is enthusiastically celebrated by setting off fireworks until the wee hours of the morning.
That evening we took the bus up to Park Güell (pronounced “gway”) which has great views of the city and is one of the places Gaudí lived.
Catalonia
After a couple days it was time to pack back up and get a rental car to see some more of the country. On the way to our accommodations we stopped at the Clos D’Agon vineyard and winery for a picnic which was nice but pretty hot and sweaty. We almost had the whole place to ourselves though!
For the night we splurged on the wonderful Hotel Peralada for our anniversary which has such beautiful grounds, refreshing pool, delicious restaurant, and wine spa which we sadly did not get to try.
The next morning we started with a short drive to visit the Salvador Dalí Museum in Figueres.
And then it was off to lunch!
Continue the adventure in part 2, where we make our way up to Collioure, France!