Month: August 2011
Designer-bottled evian water
While having lunch at Casa Danone (<– see earlier post) we noticed these designer-branded bottled water by Evian. Since they were placed behind us on display, we took them down and photographed them against the white seatings. Evian is one of the brands of water owned by Danone, their other well known brand being Volvic. …
Casa Danone, Barcelona
Danone – the French yoghurt giant – runs a restaurant ! Actimel, Activia … their brands. We were looking for a place for lunch in a business area of Barcelona (Av. Diagonal near Pl. Francesc Macià) and came across this place. It was around 12ish and it was pretty empty because the Spanish don’t eat…
Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família is the full name of this Barcelona landmark in Catalan. Translated, it is essentially the Holy Family church. It was consecrated and proclaimed a basilica by the pope in November 2010. Construction started in 1883, Gaudi – the architect died in 1926, and the work has been…
Chucky’s siblings at Museu del Joguet de Catalunya
We took a day-trip out of Barcelona to visit Salvador Dali’s museum in Figueras. Down the street from Dali’s is a museum of toys (Museu del Joguet de Catalunya). It is a fairly well run place with lots to see, including toys that belonged to famous Spanish people. What startled us were the dolls from…