Best spots in Barcelona #1 - Najboljši kotički Barcelone #1

My definite number one (quite untypical for Barcelona though) is Parc de Labirint d’Horta. It is located a bit away from the streets where tourists usually go, so it is a sort of a hidden pearl. It is the oldest park in Barcelona and for me the most beautiful one. I read something small about it at some point and it attracted my attention. On Sunday we decided with my friend to give it a try, and it was a really great day.

Moja nedvomno najljubša točka (čeprav precej netipična za Barcelono) je Parc de Labirint d’Horta. Ker ni v samem centru mesta, kamor ponavadi zahajajo turisti, je neke vrste skriti biser. Park je najstarejši park v Barceloni in po mojem mnenju najlepši. Enkrat sem čisto na hitro prebrala o njem in pritegnil je mojo pozornost. V nedeljo sva se s prijateljem odločila, da bova šla pogledat, kako je, in imela sva res super dan.

It all started with a small adventure. Somehow it was not very obvious to us where the park was once we came out of the metro. There were no signs leading to it as the spot is not that touristic. I was trying to find the way with my offline maps, but I apparently got it a bit wrong.

Next to the park is a big green area, the forest with a stream, and we were continuing our way into the forest, believing it would bring us to the park. But it didn’t. It was only going up and becoming more and more forest and less and less park like. We were thinking about how to get down to the stream in the quickest way, thinking that the park should be nearby. (After my adventurous and being-smart mood) we finally ended up in the middle of nowhere with no real path going back up where we came from. On the top of that, there was a lot of thorns everywhere and I wasn’t in my most sporty clothes.

I am still not quite sure how we managed to climb up on the path again, but then we simply took the street back to where we thought we missed the park.

Vse se je začelo z manjšo dogodivščino. Nekako se nisva najbolj znašla pri iskanju parka, ko sva prišla ven iz metroja. Nobenih smerokazov ni bilo, ker park ni tako turističen. Jaz sem poskušala najti pot na svojem offline zemljevidu, ampak sem se očitno malo zmotila.

Zraven parka je veliko zeleno območje, gozd s potokom, in midva sva pot nadaljevala v gozd, misleč, da naju bo pot pripeljala do parka. Pa naju ni. Pot se je samo vzpenjala in bila vse bolj in bolj podobna gozdu in vse manj in manj parku. Razmišljala sva, kako bi na najhitrejši način prišla dol do potoka, prepričana, da mora biti park nekje v bližini. Po tem, ko sem bila sama zelo pustolovska in (pre)pametna, sva se znašla sredi ničesar in brez prave poti, ki bi naju lepo pripeljala nazaj, odkoder sva prišla. Povrhu vsega je bilo povsod ogromno trnja in jaz niti nisem bila precej športno oblečena.

Še vedno nisem čisto prepričana, kako nama je uspelo splezati po drsečih tleh nazaj na pot, ampak potem sva enostavno šla nazaj po cesti do točke, kjer se nama je zdelo, da sva zgrešila park.

When we finally found Parc de Labirint, I was super excited because of the idea of a labyrinth. I have never had the opportunity to go into one before and I was wondering if people can really get lost in some of them. However, after my big excitement, I was at first a bit disappointed as the labyrinth seemed to be a very easy one.

We haven’t even stepped into it when I already saw the center and rolled my eyes. But then I figured out that this was the tricky part. Yes, I was able to see the center almost all the time, but it was not such a piece of cake to find the right path leading to it. We could have cheated, but we didn’t want to.

I had so much fun just walking around the green paths and trying to foresee which one would not force us to turn around. Observing other visitors, I believe some parents had even more fun than their kids in this labyrinth :)



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Ko sva končno našla Parc de Labirint, sem bila jaz res navdušena nad idejo o labirintu. Do takrat nisem še nikoli imela priložnosti, da bi šla v kakšen labirint, in porajala so se mi vsa moča vprašanja, na primer – a se ljudje res lahko izgubijo v labirintu. Kakor koli, kljub velikemu začetnemu navdušenju sem bila sprva kar malo razočarana, ker se mi je labirint zdel čisto lahek.

Še dodobra nisva vstopila v labirint, ko sem jaz že videla njegovo središče in razočarano zavijala z očmi. Potem pa sem ugotovila, da je bilo to zelo varljivo. Ja, res sem lahko videla središče skoraj ves čas, ampak najti pravo pot, ki vodi do središča, pa ni bilo čisto enostavno. Lahko bi malo goljufala, ampak nisva hotela.

Jaz sem se res izjemno zabavala, ko sem poskušala najti pravo pot in predvideti, katera bo vodila v slepo “ulico”, kjer se bova morala obrniti nazaj. Opazovala sem tudi ostale obiskovalce in zdelo se mi je, da so se nekateri starši zabavali bolj kot njihovi otroci :)

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