There is a little park across the street from our apartment Elora likes to play at. She is especially fond of a big tree that has a little cove underneath it. On this day Elora told me she was “in a bird’s...
Archive - December 2008
We spent a few days exploring the area around the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. The building is absolutely beautiful, but unfortunately Winter is a terrible time of year to take a nice picture of the outside… the...
Here is the inside of the La Seu Cathedral. We would have taken pics of the outside, but alas, the scaffolding. The inside was very beautiful (in that dark gothic kind of way, but I love that). Elora likes to visit churches for...
Ah – scaffolding! This is the La Seu Cathedrale – Which was so incredibly beautiful inside, and I’m sure the outside would have been great too, but alas, our bad luck with scaffolding struck again… We...
We wanted to go to a museum we thought Elora would enjoy, so we told her we were going to a museum about boats and pirates – the maritime museum. She thought it was great! Especially the cannons, which she played with for...
We went to a park designed by the architect Gaudi. It is huge… on top of a mountain… and has some interesting buildings, bridges, benches, etc. Every dual camera carrying couple needs a picture of someone taking a...
Mont Juic Castillo is a military fortress that was upgraded over the history of Barcelona and used up until the ’60s or so. (this is history according to Chris, I have no clue… just along for the the scenery). It is...
So we heard that the thousand plus year old monastery an hour outside Barcelona, tucked away at the top of a mountain, was a must see and we decided we must see it. Nice. To get there we had to take a train, and then a cable car...