parc guell

walked all the way to parc guell and was just about to throw in the towel and hop onto the metro (which i have valiantly resisted since arriving in barcelona) when suddenly, out of nowhere, appears this magnificent stairway to heaven! well, almost. it was 6 flights of escalators for the final uphill journey and i was more than happy to hop right on. parc guell was better than i'd anticipated, although i maintain that my parents have unintentionally robbed me of any possible appreciation of all things gaudi, because they brought me to tokyo disneysea as a child. so when i saw casa gaudi, all i could think of was 'why did they copy ariel's grotto?'

oh so unfortunate. but it was a fun hike, in retrospect, and as i sat in the cool, cavernous domed bit under the roof (sorry, that doesn't make much sense does it) as a busker played his flute, i felt a serenity like never before.