Lil'Lee | Life & Style

I took a one-day trip to Formentera at the end of this August.

Formentera is a spanish island near Ibiza. This island is well-known across Europe for beautiful beaches but I think it is not that renowned across Asia or other countries unlike Ibiza.

The beaches were insanely beautiful with the aquamarine sea. I had lots of fun snorkeling there.

We rented motorbikes and travelled around there. From my experience, a motorbike is more convenient to travel and park than a car.

I haven't been to Ibiza yet but many people told me Formentera would be better destination than Ibiza for someone who prefer chillaxing and peaceful summer holiday.

If you've been to both of them, which island love more? ;)

In this travel, I just entered to Sagrada Familia among the Gaudi's architecture as I saw most of them before and I had to wait for a long time to enter to the Park Guel without booking.
So, If you want to enter to an architecture of Gaudi, I definitely recommend to book the entrance ticket before. I had booked ticket with the specific admission hour for Sagrada Familia but I hadn't thought we would need to wait for a long time for entering the Park Guel... :(
I couldn't help but hold this park over till next time.

As the Sagrada Familia is the main symbol of Barcelona and it was summer, I entered there with a 15 euro booked ticket.
Even it is not that cheap, I think it deserves to pay this amount money to admire the Gaudi's masterpiece.
There are plenty of photos of it online and I saw them much. But the feeling inside there was quite different from seeing photos. I looked in awe of the colours of the stained glass, sunlight passing through and
I can say that it was the most beautiful and divine building I have ever seen.

One of my favourite things in Barcelona was the amazing night city view in the Catalunya art museum. unfortunately, I stayed in Barcelona from Monday to Wednesday and these days were exactly out from the schedule of opening date of the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc :(.
So if you wanna see the fountain, check the hours and dates before booking the hotel and flight.
The special place in this travel was Tibidabo which is a mountain looking down Barcelona. I had seen this place in the film called 'Vicky, Christina, Barcelona' and really fancied going there!  There is an amusement park and I appreciated the wide view of Barcelona. I loved the colourful theme park.
Personally I think the view of Barcelona seeing in Tibidabo could be more stunning at night.

I had a bunch of spanish tapas in the restaurant called Ciudad Condal, located to near Casa Batlló.
Everything was so good there excepting 40 minute waiting time. If you fancy having tapas there, go there early not to wait too long!


Barcelna is definitely one of my favourite cities I have been to <3
How about you?
I do hope that this can be helpful for anyone who fancies visiting to Barcelona :) <3

SUMMER BEACH AND BREEZE IN LLORET DE MAR, WHAT I LIKED MOST AND LEAST

I stayed in Lloret de mar, Costa brava for a day and a half before going to Barcelona. 

As Costa Brava is famous for its stunning beaches, What I liked most there was the amazing beaches :) there are  boats that visit to the famous beaches and people can see most of all the beaches with that! when we asked the ticket prices to the ticket boxes, the prices were slightly different. So, If you wanna have a boat trip, check the prices of some ticket boxes and find the best option :)

I went to the beach ,which the castle El Castell de Sant Joan is located in, and loved the beach view with the nice castle.

When I decided to go to Lloret de mar, I didn't know that this town is also famous for parties. I arrived to the town on Saturday night and streets were full of party ready people and noisy.

As I wanted to have a relaxing stay there, I didn't like the atmosphere of the streets at the first time. But It was quite calm and peaceful on Sunday and I enjoyed relaxing mood there. If you just wanna a tranquil holiday there, It might be better to go there on weekdays.

I think that this town certainly deserved to visit on the way to Barcelona.

I do hope that this is helpful for anyone who has been considering to travel there :)