This time two years ago, we were in Barcelona. One of our ports of call was the first house Antoni Gaudí ever designed, Casa Vicens. Once a spacious site beyond the city limits, it’s now squashed into narrow city streets, some of its garden space sold off. But it’s definitely worth a visit, and you can have a virtual look round here.
What the official site won’t show you is the views from the windows, and one thing I enjoyed, as I always do, was the sight of the Monday washing drying on the balconies of nearby flats.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
The colourful clothes on the washing line…one of my favourites!
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Got to love a good washing line!
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Yup…that is correct!
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You always find an interesting point of view to photograph.
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Just nosey, Susan, that’s all
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Glad you are!
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Oh, I LOVE that first image!
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You mean the ceiling shot? It’s great, isn’t it?
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Well, yes it is, but that’s the header and not the one I meant, I was meaning the really colourful washing!
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It certainly took my eye!
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😊😊😊
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Great spot Margaret. Good colour wash there spoilt by the untidy pegging out in my opinion.
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Goodness. All I can suggest is your travelling to Barcelona immediately to put her right. How’s your Catalan?
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I would have to point and shout and then demonstrate!
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So much for community harmony between nations. .
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My army training steps in when it comes to hanging the washing – Tallest on the right, shortest on the left!
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Oh goodness, you’re worse than my friend who colour codes hers. Mind you, I have to hang shirts together, socks together etc.
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Colour matched pegs too!
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Someone doesn’t have enough to do …
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I iron towels, socks, pants, and bras too!
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If you’re not joking I shall seriously consider blocking you 😉
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I’ll be sad to see you go. I’ll just have to practice my fitted sheet folding!
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Now THAT … is a challenge.
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Ah yes – a bit of from the inside looking out. Love Gaudi … and for me, love the opener!/header. Have a good week, Margaret.
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Thanks Frank. This place is well worth a visit – and not just for the views of clean washing.
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🙂
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Well spotted and nicely captured. I rather like the untidy pegging out. Free and easy.
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Exactly.
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Love the view of the wash. Couldn’t help smiling. 😊
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Good! Job done then.
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This is something I like to photograph too!
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A great club to be in!
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I have dozens of similar pics from our hotel rooms in Lisbon….. and ditto from our travels in France’s countryside, narrow alleys in charming villages in both France and Italy – and even a collection of frozen washing in the garden of a quaint B&B in Switzerland. We have ballooning huge bloomers and all colours of the palette BLUE on dozens of jeans fluttering in the breeze of foreign countries – always charming.
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It’s endlessly fascinating, isn’t it?
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Wonderful way to decorate windows! Great photos! Thank you!
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Well, useful anyway!
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Those were the days when we could hang out the washing!
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I still do. No choice. Can’t beat the smell of line dried washing, even if it’s hard to get it bone dry.
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I like your close up of the clothes. These are wonderful windows 😀
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Full of character, eh?
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Look what Andrew’s started now! It’s a bit like the conversations we used to have over the fence while pegging out. 🙂 🙂 Love the shots and thanks very much for the Gaudi link, Margaret.
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Have you visited Casa Vicens, Jo? I expect so – he can’t hide anything from you!
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Sadly he did 🙄💕
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Next time Jo. See you there?
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Margaret, I’m thinking Madrid or Marseilles. I’m never keen on going back 🙄. Though I know you have a vested interest 🤣🤣💕
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Oh, we’re quite different then. I LOVE going back for second/third visits. You get under the bonnet a bit more!
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I don’t feel I have the time for that luxury. Still have so much of Portugal to see before I even think abroad, and that was the plan for this year pre-Covid. 🤔💕
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Two in one today. Great washing shot!
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Hehe. Who’d have though I’d learn so much about others’ laundry habits while eating breakfast. Lovely shot Margaret; and what a conversation starter 👍👍
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I know. Worrying isn’t it?
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Brilliant! Casa Vicens is a wonderful place, Margaret. And combined with washing, its unbeatable.
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I thought so. It’s a great place, isn’t it, and not so obviously on the tourist radar.
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Ah, love wash! Barcelona dreaming…
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I know. Wouldn’t we all love to be there? Especially me, with a three week old granddaughter to cuddle.
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Ah…you will get there later this year! Congrats to the little one!
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Thank you – and thank goodness for modern ways of communicating – makes them seem less far away.
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Yes – thank goodness. Just read a review of Don de Lillo’s new book about silence…what if the pandemic was just a starter, and all screens went silent… No, let’s not even think about it!
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So Monday is wash day! I love the playfulness of these images!
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I dare say it wasn’t so playful for ‘er indoors. Though she does at least have drying weather on her side. My washing’s currently hanging in a snowstorm.
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Hi, Margaret. In a snowstorm…oh no! I remember taking in wash that was frozen solid in the winter. I hope the sun shines soon.😀
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Me too ….
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Monday was wash day for my grandmother with 6 kids. : ) Your friendship poem and its translation is up on Fake Flamenco! Olé!
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And I’ve seen it and commented. Thank you so much!
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I appreciate so much what you have said, in your poem and your comment. You’re fantastic, Margaret!
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are up ; )
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That first shot is amazing.. 😉
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It’s a wonderful place.
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I love photos of washing on the line! ❤ A somehow poectic view of the beauty of commonness!
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What a lovely way to think of something that seems to delight us all.
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