From c6207aab150ee7f8e5aa7f84dbe9ef21425d66f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:24:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Saturday --- content/blog/wk13day6.md | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day6.md b/content/blog/wk13day6.md index 8e93697..4f4adeb 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day6.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day6.md @@ -1,7 +1,78 @@ --- -title: "Week 13, Saturday:" +title: "Week 13, Saturday: Barcelona to Zurich" date: 2024-10-26T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/soulfulliquid-02.png" alt="Credit: Soulful Liquid, YouTube" >}} + +Ahhh what a wonderful few days in Barcelona. Yesterday when we went to bed, it started raining. Then +at 02:00 or so, we both got abruptly woken up by a thunderclap just overhead. There was a bright +flash of white and a very loud and immediate thunder. Wowza! I fell alseep pretty quickly after the +excitement, but Marina spent a bit longer before being able to fall asleep. Stupid weather! + +This morning it's still raining, so we decide to take our breakfast in the hotel. It's a nice +spread, Marina takes an _Americano_ and I take a _Mediterraneo_, and all sorts of yummy food is +presented. We take our time eating it, as our checkout is only at noon, and we are not super keen on +walking through the rain to the metro and then the airport. + +Marina sees an Aeronautical museum at the airport, but unfortunately it's open only until 13:00 on +Saturdays. Not to worry, I have not seen much of the city on this particular trip, so I offer +perhaps to go check out this little Gaudi wall a few blocks up from us. We find the wall and the +statue of _Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet_, as his full name rings. From here, +we take our time walking through a light drizzle and decide to take a look at the museum for +forbidden art - these are all artworks that were displayed at some point, but due to pressure, +typically from old, straight, white, christian dudes, were demanded to be removed. I find some of it +curious, other pieces are a bit pushy, and overall I think that old straight white christian dudes +should just chill out more. + +After this small (but in my opinion, very cool) museum, it's still raining. So we walk over to a +small cafe and have a cup of cappucino and share a red velvet cupcake. My body is sluggish and slow. +My favorite activity would be curling into a ball and sleeping some more right now, so Marina goes +easy on me. We slowly walk East to the _Arc de Triomf_ and from there through the promenade and into +the park and towards the Equestrian statue of General _Joan Prim_. + +We have a drink at a small greek bar/restaurant, and from there it's pretty close to catch the metro +at _Barceloneta_. We decide to minimze the rainy walk and take the metro L4 up to _Verdaguer_, +where we descend like twelve escalators (not even kidding!) to catch the L5 metro to _Collblanc_ and +from there it's easy: just jump onto the L9S directly to the airport. And all of this for a EUR 5.50 +train ticket. The public transport in this city is **excellent**! + +We are at the airport at about 17:30 for a 18:45 planeride. That means we should probably have some +dinner before boarding. Marina insists that we eat Tapas, and since our buddy Ramón had +previously suggested we drink a wine from Priorat, we oblige. "One of everything!", is the order, +and soon after there are seven dishes on our table. + +The food is really good - not just by "airport"-standards, but just in general: great preparation, +nice and moist _tortilla_, crispy braised _padrones_, thinly sliced _jamon_, and six units of +_croquetta_. We also enjoy the Priorat red wine and report back to the _Hardship Brotherhood_ on our +progress. + +We finish our dinner and hop-skip to the gate, where the boarding has already started. We get into +the plane, there is a bit of a kerfuffle on airplane seats - our assigned seat does not exist +because they changed the aircraft. We are not alone, and one set of people even got assigned _the +same_ seat. Hilarity ensued but in the end, everybody managed to sit. Our flight home is +_tranquillo_, and we land at Zurich airport at about 21:20, and are home at about 22:00 or so. + +We catch up with Quinn who has enjoyed the time 'off of parents', probably more so than I enjoyed +the time 'off of son', and we open up the gazillion packages in the mail. Marina went to town on +Aliexpress it seems. I also may have ordered a package or two :) + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2215.JPG" caption="The breakfast spread at Upper Diagonal on Saturday morning - yummy!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2216.JPG" caption="This small wall with gate made by Gaudi is a lesser known treasure of the city" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2218.JPG" caption="Gaudi's artwork in the city landscape cannot be ignored in Barcelona, Catalonia." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2220.JPG" caption="The museum of Forbidden Art shows all sorts of pieces that had been previously banned" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2221.JPG" caption="We shared a red velvet cupcake at a local bakery" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2225.JPG" caption="The Arc de Triomf in Barcelona, Catalonia" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2226.JPG" caption="Quinn loves pibbins, so I sent him a picture of a few we found in Barcelona, Catalonia" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2228.JPG" caption="The train station of Francia just north of Barceloneta, Barcelona, Catalonia." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2229.JPG" caption="In the subway we took twelve escalators down into the core of the Earth, to get to the L5 train" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2230.JPG" caption="At the airport, we go 'Baby, one more time', and drink a wine from Priorat." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2233.JPG" caption="Our tapas at the airport is delicious, and we thoroughly enjoy it, albeit quickly" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-26/IMG_2237.JPG" caption="Our Vueling airplane has changed, so lots of folks including us no longer have valid seats" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}}