We really took our time in the morning and finally decided to go to the MACBA/The Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona. We’ve been wanting to learn how to use the metro system here, so we headed to our metro stop. There was plenty of confusion on our part ,but we did it. We had a short walk on La Rambla and entered into a new-to-us neighborhood, El Raval. I stopped in for a quick coffee on our way in a funky little spot and the woman was so friendly.

The Plaça in front of the museum is Angels Square and it’s a crazy contrast of old and new. One one side are the old traditional Spanish buildings, while on the other is the super modern, mostly bright white, museum. The Square itself is a major skateboarding spot with kids of all ages practicing their sport.

Inside the works are set up in chronological order, so the first room had some Calder pieces and others. One wall was full of posters from the resistance, not WWII but the Spanish Civil War. These chairs and table were designed in the 1930’s:

We went into a room dedicated to the ’60s with videos of pop festivals and a small room with clips from Yellow Submarine and other Beatles live video playing on a loop. It really made me smile.

The more contemporary work included this floor covered with pieces of frames:

And I really loved this placed on a wall with many other framed pieces:

The last collection that we saw was by Teresa Lancetta. There were many many large blanket size weavings and other fabric works. The colors were mostly bold and beautiful:

Leaving the museum we walked a bit more into El Raval and turned around to head back. I looked on google maps to see a tapas place nearby and we followed the map to the highest rated one. Happily it turned out to be the same place I had my coffee earlier. We had a great little lunch:

We got the metro back; confusion over which ticket to buy continued. We got to the stop we wanted and stood up but the door never opened. Too late, I realized that we had to push a green button to open the door! So, we went one more stop and walked back home. We stopped in two different spots with prepared food and stocked up.

Came home to unload our bounty and rest a bit. All afternoon we’d been hearing cheering and loud drumming so finally we went out to find it, but we never did. We walked through a small park near here with lots of flowering bushes (no wonder I am sneezing so much) and came back home. I took a Covid test just for reassurance before we fly and it was negative.

We had a nice call with Kathryn, Tyler and Sulli and I did some research for our day trip to Girona tomorrow.

We watched another episode of The Staircase, and that was that.