A short travel vlog (Story #2) from Skip Kelly documenting an early-morning hike and exploration of Park Güell in Barcelona during Mindvalley University. The speaker narrates the climb and panoramic views, includes a brief explanatory note on Gaudí’s nature-inspired architecture, and closes with reflective comments about creating a multi-episode vlog series.
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I kid you not, in this exact same spot on this street is going to be quite crazy after the sun comes up around 9 or 10am and right now it is about 5:45am on this beautiful Tuesday morning, day two of Mindvalley University. Up until this point, we really haven't experienced any hills, so that's how it's different from San Francisco. But this side of the city, near Parc Guell, like the north part of the city, really hilly. We're going up basically thousand steps right now, and a giant hill. So we were not prepared for this contingency. Oh, there's more. Oh, there's more. We are officially in Park Guell. What do you think, Resh? Oh, dude, this is crazy. The early bird catches the worm, we forget that it does rain. Barcelona. How's it looking, you guys? My backpack is, like, soaked. I don't know if you guys can see this, man. I'm supposed to be. I'm nervous. We are at the top of Park Guell, overlooking the entire city of Barcelona. So we now have a goal of going to this Hyrule Castle in the clouds. It's gonna be a hike. Looks like a pretty far one. Doing it. Gotta do it. It reminds me of Shrek. Oh, totally, yeah. Yeah. Some dragons and shit in the sky. It literally looks like if a dragon came out right now, I'd. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's fair. So there is a blackout right now here at Beta House, and I'm walking through the stairs with the stereo mic on. Sorry about that. And I'm going up to the top level because it'll be like, oh, lights are back on.
Because Gaudi's work is always inspired by nature. What supports the ceiling are columns. And these are like very tall, tall trees in a forest with branches that reach very high in the ceiling, supporting the ceiling. And then the light, the natural light, filters through as if filtering through a very dense, thick forest. Foreign.
Hey, guys, Skip Kelly here. Thanks for watching this episode here. Story number two of my Mindvalley University experience. This was a lot of exploring Barcelona. And each episode of the five or six I'll make this month, I really wanted to have a completely different feel. And I really want to experiment with a lot of different formats so that when we can all who are participating in mindvalley go back and look at this experience, we can really remember it in a variety of different ways. I hope you enjoyed this episode. This was definitely an action adventure episode, obviously with a lot of music and a lot of cinematic shots in it. I really enjoyed making it. It took a long time to edit, but I appreciate you guys for watching and I really, really appreciate all the support and feedback I got from the first episode or the first story of this Barcelona mindvalley University trip. I'm going to continue to put a lot of effort into these videos and I hope you guys enjoy them as much as I enjoy making them.
