AWESOME PARK & DELICIOUS FOOD | Guell Gaudi Park & SUCKLING PIG at Taberna Del Cura Barcelona Spain

Good morning. Final day in Barcelona. We are flying out early tomorrow morning to our next location in Spain. So on our final day, we are going to go check out Parc Güell. Let's go. So we got here a little bit earlier than the app suggested that the transit would take. So we've got about half an hour before we're allowed to enter the park. When you get here, when you buy a ticket, it gives you like a half hour window in which you can enter, so make sure that you get here on time. Parc Güell was conceived by a gentleman named Count Eusebi Güell, after whom the park is named, obviously. He originally conceived of it as a housing project. It was initially divided up into 60 lots. Each parcel was to contain a private home. It's located in a well-off neighborhood and it was up on a hill, so he thought that it would be like a park-like setting that was kind of away from the smoke of the factories and the hustle and bustle of the city. Ultimately, the idea of Parc Güell as a housing development failed. Only two houses were actually built. Neither of those were built by Gaudi. Of one of the houses, Count Güell suggested that Gaudi moved into it. Gaudi used his savings, bought that house, and lived in that house until his death in 1926. This park is beautiful and it's really emblematic, of course, of Gaudi's style, where every line and piece is so inspired by Gaudi's love of nature. But we're finding it difficult to try and explain these to you, so we'll do our best to just show it as we go. The tile work and the mosaics in this park are absolutely stunning. I don't know, I think it's kind of Gaudi. We are leaving Parc Güell right now. Definitely worth a see if you're ever in the area. Gorgeous place. Can't miss an attraction in Barcelona, obviously. A couple notes. We got here at 9.30, which was as early as we could purchase tickets. I had read online and in some of the guidebooks to give yourself about an hour or an hour and a half to explore the park. It's 12.30 now. It took us about three hours, and so maybe you want to give yourself a little bit more time if you want to be able to stop, take pictures, kind of enjoy the scenery. The second thing is that as we're leaving now at 12.30, the park is much, much more crowded than it was when we entered at 9.30, so you may want to get there early. We have left the park. There's a couple of neighborhoods here that Angela wanted to see, and we have arrived at the first location that she has pinned on Google Maps here. Let's take a quick look around. That's the neighborhood. Who was right? It's kind of cute. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. She's just guiding us through a couple of neighborhoods, and they seem to be dotted all over Barcelona, these little plazas everywhere. They're super cute, and we are having a great time just exploring the city. So this neighborhood that we're exploring right now is called Garcia, and apparently at one point it was its own little town, its own village that was quite a bit outside of Barcelona. So as Barcelona expanded over time, it kind of swallowed up the village of Garcia, but it still has this kind of village, little town feel. Walking through all of these squares and seeing like the locals are just hanging out, drinking at the cafes, enjoying their time with their friends. It's a really cute little neighborhood. Angela has found us a little restaurant, and as soon as we sat down at the table, I was offered suckling pig. So that's pretty much over with and going to happen really quickly. We're not going to film too much in here because as you can see the lighting is not that great, but we'll see if we can get some good food shots with the iPhone so we can show you everything that's going on. We started our lunch with the usual bottle of vino tinto and two appetizers. First were crispy salty fried artichokes, and when you're in Spain, you absolutely have to try the world-famous ammonia birgo. For entrees, the waiter told us that the restaurant specializes in two dishes, so of course we had to order those. I had a simple but delicious leg of lamb, was perfectly roasted and fall-off-the-bone tender. Jeff ordered the suckling pig and had a really crispy and crunchy skin and was really juicy and succulent inside. For dessert, we had this delectable cake served with ice cream and some kind of syrupy juice. We still don't know what the juice was. The cake is called tarta de Santiago and it's a traditional Spanish dessert from the Middle Ages. It's made with ground almonds and it's not too sweet, but it's super yummy. We started the day at Park Guell, which is one of Gaudi's better known projects. We're ending the day in front of Casa Vincennes, which is one of Gaudi's first projects, and you can see how his work has evolved over time. This being one of his first projects doesn't have the signature naturalistic organic style that we're used to seeing in buildings like the Sagrada Familia, as well as in Park Guell that we saw earlier today. This is a lot more eastern influenced. You see a lot of straight lines, almost very similar to buildings that Gaudi was studying at the time, including the Alhambra in Granada. So we've had about a full day out here today. We're going to work our way back to the hotel. We have a lot of packing to do. We have a flight early in the morning that we have to be at the airport for. We've had four full days here in Barcelona, part of another day. We've seen a blip of Barcelona. There's still so much more to see here. Hopefully we're going to make our way back here. So if you guys have any tips for us for the next time that we make it into Barcelona, leave a comment down below and don't forget to like and subscribe to see where we end up next.