I've been meaning to write about the end of our trip, but it's been a long week catching up on sleep and settling back into normal life. Better late than never!
The last 2 nights in Barcelona were wonderful. We checked out the beach and walked around the Barceloneta neighborhood. We also got in the top Gaudi sights -- the Park Guell and La Sagrada Familia, easily our favorite tourist activities of the trip. The Park Guell was super hilly and beautiful, and though we opted not to pay for the tour of the main grounds, we were still able to see what it was all about from the pathways and through the trees.
La Sagrada Familia was like nothing else we'd ever seen. Just crazy in its detail and history. I love that it's still a work in progress and that a new generation has taken over to see the latest phase through. For some reason, Jason and I opted IN for the tour of the towers -- the towers of terror as we later nicknamed them. We both got shaky legs as we stepped off the elevator and realized how high up we were. Needless to say, we took no pictures from that part of the tour.
We learned all about the "Rick Steves effect" in the L'Eixample neighborhood where every restaurant on his list was packed to the gills and we ended up in a second-tier spot down the street with rude servers and bad music ("Love is an Open Door" from the movie Frozen...I know Molly would have approved, but it's not what you want to hear in Spain). That was probably our only real miss of the trip.
It was hard to leave Barcelona, but we were both missing Molly and anxious to see her again. The 24-hour pit stop in Dublin ended up being a really nice buffer between Spain and home. We had already been to Dublin in 2006, so didn't feel pressure to do anything touristy. Instead, we walked around the city, stopped for pints of Guinness at different pubs throughout Temple Bar, watched some hurling, and picked up a few souvenirs for Molly.
After that, we were HOME and reunited with our favorite girl. She was happy to see us too and didn't seem to bear us any ill will for leaving her for 10 days. Relief. When's our next trip?
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| The Park Guell |
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| More from the Park Guell |
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| La Sagrada Familia -- work in progress |
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| Inside La Sagrada -- amazing! |
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| Last night in Barcelona |
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| Final shot from our favorite neighborhood, El Born |
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| Change of scenery...Dublin |
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| Happiness is a pint of Guinness in Temple Bar |
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