T For Travel

It’s always a pleasure to travel with someone who is seeing Barcelona for the first time.  You can see the constant sense of surprise and delight, when they see this spectacular cosmopolitan city.  It’s a joy for yourself, too, of course, because the city is always changing and evolving.  Even though there are things that will always make it great, like the old architecture, paintings, as well as the classical sensibilities that embrace old-world manners, there is always something new here, and it’s always impressive as a city with vision.  There are plenty of visionaries here, too, as it continues to attract some of the best artistic minds in the world, just as it did in the Spanish golden age.

As a fantastic destination for tourists, it’s always been near the very top. Barcelona hotels and restaurants are plentiful, and also excellent, offering spectacular hospitality and luxury, so that you can see and taste the city from a place that speaks to pure pleasure.  There are also a fantastic variety of attractions that you can always find something to suit your tastes.  If you’re tastes run toward the unexpected, there is plenty here for you, and many interesting adventures lie ahead.  If you start looking into film here, you’ll probably run into the name Mabel Palacin.

Born here in 1965, she went to film school and continues to live and work here.  It’s a splendid compliment to the city, as she is an incredibly splendid artist.  Her preoccupations have to do with the way the viewer received the image, and her work plays with expectations in heady and fascinating ways.  She worked in photography for awhile, before turning to film completely, and her work is filled with the power of the moment in a way that most film-makers, even the best of the avant-garde, often miss.  Her work can be seen in exhibitions all over Spain, as well as many other countries in Europe, and Asia, and her splendid past career is a fantastic body of work to anticipate the years ahead.