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March 25, 2014 | in Europe, Travel

Barthaylona, Part Dos: Gaudi in Wonderland

casa batllo gaudi barcelona spain

Day #11,578 (Barcelona, Spain): Having fallen hopelessly in love with architect Antoni Gaudí the day before, I scrapped all plans for a diversified trip (sometimes it’s overrated, friends) and determined there to be but one way to spend my last few hours in the city of Barthaylona. I hadn’t planned on visiting Casa Batlló, thinking […]

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February 26, 2014 | in Europe, Travel

Barthaylona, Part Un: A Textbook Case of Art History

la sagrada familia barcelona spain gaudi

Prior to visiting Barcelona, I identified the city with (1) childhood memories of the 1992 Summer Olympics, (2) the brief section of my monolithic high school art history book dedicated to the architect Antoni Gaudí, and (3) tapas. [And in all honesty, (4) that scene in the movie “The Internship” where Vince Vaughn fights with […]

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