Living The Spanish Dream
Selling World Travel|November-December 2017

Spain is everything you can imagine it to be… and more! From flamenco and poetry to fabulous architecture and art. Travel to its heart, boisterous Barcelona and farther to Seville and partake of the good life.

Parul Bali
Living The Spanish Dream

On one of my travels, I sat sipping wine 30,000 feet above sea level and watching Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The lady next to me seemed rather amused to see me rolling with laughter in my seat with the entertainment onboard. Neither she nor I knew then that that movie would plant a deep desire in my heart to travel to Spain. People have different reasons to put this charismatic country on their bucket list. Spain being a football crazy nation, attracts a large number of fans as well as an equal number of revellers for its traditional festivities such as the famous Running of the Bulls at Pamplona and La Tomatina at Valencia’s famous town of Bunol. For me though, Alhambra in Granada was a surreal experience, described by Moorish poets as ‘a pearl set in emeralds’. I have travelled to other beautiful countries but Spain has an invincible soul. It wasn’t just about awesome tapas bars, Gaudi’s architecture, Picasso’s art—there was also a lot of amazing graffiti on the walls of alleys, street artistes performed everywhere and their astounding spirit rubbed off on me soon after my arrival.

BARCELONA

Barcelona was a revelation too, with its boisterous people and musicians strumming their Spanish guitars around cathedrals and the sound of music elating the senses and putting everyone on a happy high. I spent a few days in Barcelona with friends, walking the popular La Rambla, admiring the eclectic craziness of Antoni Gaudi's Casa Batllo, Park Guell and the famous Basilica of Sagrada Familia.

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