Barcelona, Spain - Our City Tour

Friday May 30th, continued.

Well we managed to find an english speaking tour of Barcelona & headed off in a coach with about 35 other Aussies about 10.45am. The weather was looking a bit dodgy, heavy cloud & a few showers.

The tour began with a drive through La Rambla & Cataluna to a Gothic Cathedral designed by the famous architect, Antoni Gaudi. We walked around the outside but it was almost impossible to get a photo of the entire church as it was huge. 

Once inside we were unable to use the flash on our cameras, so decent photos were rare.

Next we drove through the old part of town, passing the old wall & dozens of beautiful buildings, all different, with amazing architecture.

After this we parked the coach (or the driver did) & walked to the beautiful unfinished "Sand Cathedral", the original architect failed to complete the project & Gaudi took over, however he was killed before it was completed. It is still incomplete and it is anticipated it will be completed in 2026. My detail is sketchy but won't bore you all too much. Here are some photos.

We then moved on to the Olympic site, but it was just a drive through so not any photos of note. The views of Barcelona from the Olympic site were great though:

We stopped for approx 45mins at a nice little village where we skipped the tour spiel & found a cute little cafe where we ordered some tapas & a glass of wine.

We have heaps more  photos but they would never download in time.

Our thoughts on Barcelona ....... much much better than we anticipated. A beautiful, well maintained city that is very clean (unlike Naples, Tunisia & Messina). The architecture is stunning and worthy of much more time spent in the city. Half a day just didn't skim the surface. Surprisingly this was the coolest day we have had all trip and we had several showers of rain which dampened the tour a little as there are very few area with cover.  I guess we will just have to come back here one day & spend more time :)

We enjoyed another nice dinner with our new friends & tablemates. I will post some photos tomorrow or Sunday. Just one full day left of this, our final ocean cruise as we spend it in Marseille, France tomorrow, Saturday.

Goodnight :)

Betty & Mike