Semana Santa Palm Sunday

Right outside my apartment today at the Sagrada Familia, Palm Sunday Festivities were taking place. This whole weekend you could buy palms from vendors. These were not just any old palms. There are bundles of palms that are about 6ft tall for sale. There are palms made into baskets and bouquets with toys and candy dangling from them. Some people even had palms that were red, pink or purple. Quite extravagant.

Granada Graffiti and interesting building murals

Granada

The city of Granada
(view from the Alhambra)


For the weekend I traveled to Granada in southern Spain. Its a completely different city than Barcelona. When you order a drink you get a free tapa with it. I went to a bar that gave me a sandwich and french fries with my beer. We went to the Cathedral, the Alhambra and a Flamenco show. We had plenty of free time too for shopping and churros and chocolate. The bars had a neighborhood feel and some had flamenco groups singing and playing music in the corners. The flamenco show was up the mountain of the city and when the curtain rose the back drop was a glass wall with the view of the city. It was so good.

The Alhambra

Again

La Catedral de Granada

La Capilla Real de Granada

Arc de Triomf

I got out of work early today so I decided to explore this path a lot of people were walking on behind a futbol field by my work. It led to a beautiful park and eventually the Arc de Triomf. I continued farther and saw a lot of amazing buildings with very interesting thing sculpted on the facades. A pretty walk.

A little painting done on a lamp post

A pretty street light

The Gothic Quarter

I went on a tour of the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona with some Study Abroad advisers from all over the US. They were here on a trip and wanted to meet some students. I got free Paella out of it and a pretty awesome tour. The Barri Gotic of course has gothic style buildings and the Cathedral La Seu, but also, remains left from the Roman Colony in Barcelona during Emperor Augustus' rein founded between 10-15 B.C.E.

A facade

Roman village remains persevered by placing a building around it.

The Cathedral area


The first work of Antonio Gaudi in Barcelona

It Snows In Barcelona!!!!!

Snow on the motos

Like the title says, it snowed today in Barcelona. I had to work at 10am. Lola calls me and says its bad outside I'm driving, meet me at my apartment. At this point it was only raining. We work on patterns til 2pm and we look outside and it is snowing. Very rare for Barcelona, outside of Barcelona ok, but not in Barcelona. I did not pack for this. So I go home eat and decide to go back to work after lunch. Its horrible out! When we leave for the day we had to brush Lola's car off, probably 4inches of very wet/heavy snow. Besides the snow, it was a really awesome day, I made the pattern for a dress in the next collection and got to meet the other intern.

(This building is El Gato Producciones, Where I work and lots of different kinds of artists have their workspace)