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Heather and June's Summer Cruise

A trip from July 12, 2006 to July 31, 2006, travelling to Barcelona, Barcelona, Olivia Stretcher

Researching & Documenting the various ports of call … More

Researching & Documenting the various ports of call in Spain, Italy & France for our summer Cruise with Olivia.

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Wed 07/12/06 (day 1)

Gaudi's Bench & Parc Guell

This bench defines the undulating edge of the public park in the residential district designed by Gaudi. The backdrop is Barcelona. The serpintine back of the bench was designed around the curve of a workman's spine. It looks uncomfortable but is surprisingly well fitted to the human body.

The park is an open space, similar to a "public green". It isn't green but covered in pebbles that act as a filter for water draining off the hillside as it travels through the floor of the "green" to columns underneath. The water flows to a cistern to be used later for watering the gardens. A beautiful, functional design.

This is the underside of the public "green". We were stunned by the mosaic medallions for their color & intricate designs. Its public drainage wearing jewelry...and its gorgeous. Can you imagine working on a ceiling with such variations in concavity & slope? Typical of Gaudi, his surfaces & forms attempt to replicate the patterns & irregularites he found in nature.

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You go girls :-)

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bachngolf (View bachngolf's trips)

this site is wonderfully useful - thank you for all the work you did to put it together! I've been reading ome of the histories about our stops on the tour and now that I've explored this great site, I think I'm finally ready.

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Annie (View Annie's trips)

Your site is very helpful. We thank you for putting so much work into it!

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Jeff H (View Jeff H's trips)

Hope you're having a great time! Would love to hear some highlights.

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carlytucci (View carlytucci's trips)

That trip is so cool and also I would love to go there sometime and I really want to go there! It's true because that place us so aweome and I really want to go there! If I go there I can have so much fun and it'll be the best trip ever and if it is I know it will! You girls made this trip intresting! Thanks for sharing it with us! I really like it!

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it was fun

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Louis A (View Louis A's trips)

That loked like a fun trip

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