Life’s an ocean with too much commotion

This day I didn’t feel like doing museums, or things inside. It was a little bit cloudy outside, but I function much better in these kind of weather conditions.
In the north of Barcelona, near Tibidabo, you have Parc del Laberint d’Horta. Choosing to go there is one thing, finding the park another!
You have a metro station called Horta, but the labyrinth park is nowhere near the Horta metro station, so don’t go there. Instead you should take the metro station Mundet, on the green line. Once arrived at Mundet, the park lays behind the sport station. I’ve read that the park is only open (and free entrance) on Wednesday and Sunday. As I went Wednesday, I was lucky.
Once there, you’ll receive a card that you’re supposed to give back when you’re leaving the park. The reason is that there are only a limited amount of people allowed in the park at once, and I guess they want to know how many people are lost when the park closes .

The park itself exists of, of course, the labyrinth and a well-maintained romantic garden. I don’t know exactly what’s romantic about it, but the signs at each spot keep telling me it should be romantic.

At noon I went back to the center of Barcelona, to meet my girlfriend for lunch. She brought some colleagues with her, and we ate wok at the Wok2Walk. After that we bought a coffee at Starbucks and I dropped her off again at the university.

At 5PM we went to Barcelona’s most central park, Parc de la Ciutadella. The park includes a zoo, a lake, a large fountain and several museums. The Catalan Parliament is seated at a building in the center of the park. You can walk your way to this park, passing the Arc de Triomph. It looks like the one in Paris. Once arrived at the park, we saw lots of people there, they were playing, sitting in the grass, drinking beers, having fun… We sat down for an hour in the sun, watched the little boats on the lake. Unfortunately the large fountain wasn’t on. I think we’re here in the wrong month, because the fountain at Plaça Catalunya wasn’t on also. We skipped the zoo as I don’t think these animals are any different than the ones in a Belgian zoo.

We decided to have dinner at a restaurant near the beach. Near Parc de la Ciutadella you have Port Olimpic, and full of restaurants serving fish and paella. Hint, if you want to stay on the beach for an afternoon, go to the beach in the South of Port Olimpic. You also have a (bigger) beach in the North, but it’s more crowdy and the sand is more dirty than the one in the South.

The picture above showed our restaurant, on the bridge beneath the Gold Fish. We ate paella and it was delicious! After dinner, I took some night shots of the Port Olimpic and the Gold fish.