c/ Hostal d’en Sol - BCN part 17
Day 5 - 06.10.05
Here is a sketch of the front door (complete with the graffiti on it) of our apartment in BCN. I quickly drew this (in pencil) that morning before going to Montserrat. The street cleaner and the garbage bags are drawn from a combination of memory and imagination, since these city’s employees cleaned our street late at night (not in the morning) and the trash were put out in the evening. It was really annoying, but also amazing at the same time that these people clean the street so late and every night. I can’t imagine that being done in my own neigborhood here in Holland. The whole neighbourhood would storm the city hall immediately to protest. I still don’t understand how my Barcelonian neighbors upstairs and on the right of our apartment could/can stand the noise every night. We couldn’t really sleep through this. We could hear everything because our bedroom was one floor above the entrance but right behind the two small windows (shown on sketch). The street was a little quieter in the mornings. But we had to get up by then, grab some breakfast, and continue our sightseeing.
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Beautiful drawings!
Comment by Paige Keiser — November 1, 2005 @ 5:37 am
Thank you very much, Paige!
Comment by Eefje — November 2, 2005 @ 9:10 pm
Wow!!! your sketches are beautiful!!
Comment by Valerie — November 6, 2005 @ 9:43 pm
Beautiful draws! I have reserved the same apartment for next week… Thank you for your notes!
Comment by nachodila — March 6, 2008 @ 3:53 pm