{"id":4384,"date":"2010-02-19T00:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T08:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2010-02-17T22:49:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T06:49:40","slug":"radio-in-barcelona-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/radio-in-barcelona-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019DAY\u2019S TRAVEL WOES #65: THE MYSTERIOUS 600-YEAR OLD SPANISH STAIRCASE"},"content":{"rendered":"

November (1995)<\/strong> (continued):<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"radio<\/a>

Even I Could Recognize Gaudi<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

I had come to Barcelona to speak at the NAB\u2019s European Radio Operations seminar (Managing Personality Radio<\/em> and Building A Winning Morning Show).<\/em><\/p>\n

This was my first trip to Spain. For a change, I actually found some time to do a little exploring. On Sunday afternoon I wandered around Barcelona for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n

I took particular delight in recognizing the buildings of Antoni Gaudi<\/strong>… because usually I can\u2019t really tell one building (much less one architect) from another. But my guidebook to Spain (which I perused on the airplane) talked about his work \u2014 which is so distinctive that even I was able to recognize it.<\/p>\n

\"Spanish<\/a>

Inside Palau de la Generalitat<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

After Monday\u2019s sessions, the city of Barcelona put on a reception for us in the 14th Century palace, Palau de la Generalitat,<\/em> that serves as headquarters of the government of Catalo\u00f1a. Here\u2019s what I remember of that event:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> It was a very impressive locale for a reception.<\/p>\n

2. <\/strong>No food was served (even though the reception was held at diner time).<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Some local government official welcomed us with an incredibly long, boring speech. (All of us were standing throughout, immediately in front of him. So politeness required us to appear to be attentive.)<\/p>\n

The sad thing about his speech was not that it was long and boring but that he obviously had nothing he wanted to say to us. Clearly this was his stock speech; he simply substituted \u201cradio\u201d where the previous week he might have said \u201csoftware development\u201d or \u201cbanking\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are especially pleased to welcome you members of the banking<\/span> industry, because banking<\/span> is a very important part of all our lives….\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

4.<\/strong> A stairway led from the reception room down to floor below; from the railing one could see the lower floor was simply an empty chamber. Feeling a little restless (actually, I was feeling hungry), I wandered down the stairway.<\/p>\n

In one corner of that empty chamber was a doorway.<\/p>\n

I peeked in the doorway and discovered a deeply descending, narrow, twisting dark staircase. A 600-year old staircase that led to…?<\/p>\n

If I had had a flashlight with me, I would have found where the stairs led. Even today, I wonder\u2026.<\/p>\n

Next Installment: <\/strong>My Barcelona encounters with two superficial Hollywood icons\u2026and a bunch of kittens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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