Images of Barcelona’s Modernisme

All photos ©Melanie Waldman/Travels With Two

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Lobby of Gaudi's Casa Mila

If you’ve ever seen a rainbow just after a storm, when the sky is glowing from clouds to gold, then you can probably imagine Barcelona.

But in case that visual escapes you, please enjoy some of our favorite photos of Barcelona’s most magnificent Art Nouveau-era Modernisme.  Whenever we need a little hit of color between our vacations, we now think of these fantastic, organic, utterly unique landmarks.

And we close our eyes and smile, transported together back to Spain. [Read more...]

Barcelona: Eat, Stay, Love

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Tapaç 24 in Barcelona

Barcelona is best known for attracting scores of tourists to its uniquely magnificent, 100 year-old Modernisme buildings. But people also come to immerse themselves in this city’s more modern blend of excitement, elegance, color, taste, and invention.

The more things change, as the saying goes. [Read more...]

Southern Spain: A Just Reward

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At Cordoba's Alcazar, Columbus gets the royal okay to go exploring

If your spouse/significant other ever suggests starting a business in your two-bedroom home, and because you work at home he asks you to be the part-time receptionist, and then the business grows to 14 employees, and after many months and proven success he offers to take you somewhere nice to thank you for being a good sport…choose Spain.

I sure as heck did.

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