I’ve got my baby to keep me warm

Barcelona is famous for the “extraordinaries” -- places, like la Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, plus statues, fountains and humans.

A place I like a lot is la Puerta del Angel – the angel’s gate/door.

La Puerta del Angel’s a wide, open, welcoming area, without traffic, like a sort of like a cul de sac, and it’s “home” for well-known department stores like Corte Ingles, and a whole bunch of smaller, slick and chic boutiques.

la Puerta del Angel
Barcelona, 2007

For the wealthy, culinary aficionados, McDonalds and the like wait for you.

Around the perimeter of la Puerta del Angel are huge, comfortable, monstrous slabs of stone.

Here, you have a place to comfortably spread your maps, see the sites you missed along the way,

And, to calm your nerves, you can practice “pronouning” the name of exotic streets and neighborhoods you might never see.

So, once you know where you’ve not been, and in no hurry to get there,

Lie down and unwind.

The seats are big, BIG enough for YOU to relax and reconnect with a loved one.

Enjoy!!

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