Now What? |
To all who have been following me this summer (this blog really took off after it was featured on Gawker, eh?), many thanks for your support. It is with a triumphant heart that I announce that my route for Let's Go has come to a glorious end, after a very memorable (though still fairly hazy) week in Ibiza. I'd share stories of the Isla Blanca (called the "White Isle" for reasons other than the color of the houses, as far as I could tell) but I want to leave my readers' sensibilities unoffended.
Quiz Time |
Ibiza nightclub or Pink Floyd song? Answers below.
On the Road Again |
After calling Barcelona home for six weeks, I'm back on the road, island-hopping in the Mediterranean and currently in Mallorca. Palma, the island's biggest city, isn't exactly what I'd expected, though.
Modernisme in my Barcelona Barri: Part Three in a Series |
For the third and final installment of my smash hit series on moderniste architecture in my neighborhood (thanks for the great write-up, New Yorker!), I've decided to skip over the rest of the small potatoes apartment buildings on my street and go straight for what is known in Catalan as "the big kahuna": Park Güell.
Tourist? Resident? Identity crisis in Barcelona |
The other day on the internets I came across this gem of a cartoon (source):
A sophomore History of Art and Architecture concentrator and proud New Yorker, Mark is leaving the States behind for Catalunya. After researching the Camino de Santiago and most of Portugal last summer, Mark is settling into Barcelona, where he'll gawk at Gaudí's work and practice his Catalan.
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