Barcelona Travel Notes

After a five-hour meal, I finally got to the dessert course. Can you believe that even the dessert part of fine dining is now so fiercely competitive that they turned it into a play (Living Table)?!

On December 28, Barcelona's metro and buses have a unified ticketing system - TMB, which can be purchased at self-service machines in metro stations. I

Antoni Gaudí, the great Spanish architect and a representative of the Art Nouveau movement, is renowned for his complex, innovative, and unique designs deeply inspired by nature, earning him the title 'God's Architect'. His major works are mostly located in Barcelona.

I once saw a line from the drama iPartment:

After work on December 15, my husband and I flew from Shanghai to Madrid, while our daughter flew from Bristol, UK to Madrid. The three of us finally reunited after being apart for three months.

April 15, 2025: First Arrival at the Pearl of the Mediterranean

Gaudí's father was a blacksmith who owned his own workshop. Growing up in the workshop, Gaudí watched his father transform a single sheet of metal into containers and ornaments of various shapes. Gaudí admitted that his ability to imagine three-dimensional forms from flat surfaces likely came from observing his father's work as a child.

December 18: Today is a day trip to Toledo. As the former capital of Spain, Toledo's historical significance is self-evident.

"Flower of Europe" Barcelona is located on the Mediterranean coast in northeastern Spain, nestled between mountains and sea, with majestic terrain, and is the gateway to the Iberian Peninsula

Before coming to Spain, I had never heard of the place called Qingtian. I only knew that the largest number of Chinese immigrants in Europe come from Wenzhou. They rely on...

From mid-August, I started planning the Spain trip for National Day. First, I applied for a passport from my employer, then went through the visa process—quite a hassle. 202

In Search of Genius and Magic: Spanish Artists Beyond Their Time, Part 3: Antoni Gaudí

On February 1 and 2, 2025, Casa Batlló, the most fantastical building by Gaudí and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Barcelona, Spain,

When you are captivated by the dazzling facade of Casa Batlló and pause to gaze upward, you will surely overlook the building next door,

Around noon on April 14, 2025, we arrived at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia is Gaudí's

Around 2 PM on April 14, 2025, we finished our visit to the Sagrada Família and took a bus to Barcelona's La Boqueria.

In February 2025, as one of Gaudí's most fantastical buildings, the World Heritage site Casa Batlló (Casa Batl

On February 1-2, 2025, Barcelona once again hosted a globally acclaimed visual spectacle—the digital art light show at Casa Batlló.

On the morning of April 14, 2025, I had a buffet breakfast at the hotel at 7 am and set off for Park Güell in Barcelona at 8:30. It is said that

Near Barcelona's Arc de Triomf, there are many Chinese-owned restaurants and supermarkets—where the first wave of Chinese entrepreneurs began their businesses. Here,