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Waiting for the train to Barcelona in southern France | Narrow one way streets and packed buildings make interesting walks | Beautiful house plants hang off balconies outside our hotel |
Barcelona is filled with some really neat buildings. This is a zoological museum | An old limestone church | Barcelona's busy harbour and lots of tourist activities to do if you are into that sort of thing |
Time to jump onto Barcelona's Metro. Anywhere in the city there is a metro station within 500 m | Gaudi's Famila Sangria, a huge temple that has been under construction for over a century | Gaudi has quite the influence over the architecture of many buildings in Barcelona, leading to some unique designs, such as seen in these towers |
The western entrance to the temple features Christ's death, compared to the eastern entrance (above middle picture) which celebrates his birth | All figures are hand carved. Note the square of numbers on the left. Add them up in any direction and you'll always get 33 | You can climb up into some of the towers to get some pretty good views of Barcelona. The expected completion date is sometime around 2050, but don't hold your breath since there is still so much to do |
More city views from one of the towers | Just to give a view of how big this temple will be, the middle tower isn't even built yet, but its top will be at the top of the picture | Off to Parc Güell. This is the world's longest park bench. Gaudi designed it so that all of his construction workers had a place to sit for lunch |
At the entrance of Parc Güell there is a big lizard that is a popular attraction | Time for some geocaching. "Barcelona's Gecko" is located inside the park and is named after the lizard to the left | More of Gaudi's architecture within the park. Looks like a gingerbread house to me! |
Even more of Gaudi's work. You'll see it throughout the city. This roof is shaped like a reptile's back | Barcelona is a popular designation for UK tourists. Internet cafés are popular in the tourist areas | I always have a quest to seek out sweat and sour tofu (lower right plate) while in foreign cities. This particular one wasn't that great, but the beer was good |