Another place, another language not to understand. Catalan is about as incomprehensible as East End Glaswegian. Still in Barcelona people will understand Spanish and often English. (not sure about Glaswegian, though.) This is a 2 part post as there are so many photos following our 3 days in the City.
This is Barcelona's Gothic Cathedral, inside and out.
And then on to the impressive Port building:
other weird and wonderful Gaudi creations,
recycled lamp posts,
most of which pictures we took from the open topped tourist bus. It was nearly impossible, without queuing for literally hours, to get inside many of these attractions and we had to be content to admire from the outside, including the La Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's masterpiece.
It is almost 50 years to the day that I was last in Barcelona with Mum and Dad and I will be eager to compare my black and white Brownie camera photos taken then to what we can see now. It has certainly progressed and is expected to be finished in the next 10 years eventually having 18 towers.
The other thing I remember from all that time ago is a visit to the bullring, but I can't remember if it was this one, below, since converted to an arena. More to check in the old photo album.
Barcelona is incredibly busy with a huge amount to do. Practically everything costs upwards of 10 euros each to get in and sometimes more than 20 euros. We don't know how lucky we are with our free entrance to many museums in UK.
More on Barcelona and Mataro, where are based at the weekend.
Thanks to everybody who have e-mailed and texted me outside the blog following Crystal Palace's epic victory.
Adeu
J&P
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