Friday started off with Casa Batllo, another one of Gaudi’s. We were able to go on the rooftop here as well. My favorite part was the parlor area inside that had a huge window to the street below. I enjoyed Casa Batllo a lot. After lunch, we were able to finally hit the beach for a few hours. We then went to Park Guell which was a quite a hike with outdoor escalators between layers of stairs for a break. Gaudi also designed Park Guell. We decided it was time we visit our first club in Barcelona so we took the last metro available at 2am to get to Opium. We are not sure whether or not we were actually at Opium or its connecting neighbor, Shoko, a sushi bar. Either way, we had a lot of fun and left at 5am to catch the first metro of the day. Those are normal hours for night life in Barcelona.
the parlor
Casa Batllo at night
inside Park Guell
Saturday 3.24.12
Saturday we toured the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. Next, we went to the Joan Miro Museum. We left for the airport at 1am for our 5am flight. After a few setbacks prior to boarding, we took off. Eventually, they tell us to buckle up for landing; however this was not a normal landing. Instead of a gradual landing, the next thing that happened was a lot of shaking and we were hitting the ground. This was followed by clapping, a trumpet tune, and an announcement about their 90% on time arrivals. The rumors about Ryan Air are true haha. We have heard that the pilots get paid more for quicker landings so they will do anything to make it there faster such as abrupt landings..We landed in Rome feeling like we had pulled two back to back all-nighters and waited for our train to Castiglion Fiorentino. After a total of 13 hours of travel we were pretty exhausted, ready for a nap and some clean clothes.
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