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...
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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...
The kids often fell asleep in the stroller as we walked and walked annnnnnnd waaaalked. Elora passed out in mid-raisin munching and left a trail of raisins before we figured out what was happening. So we hurried back and snapped...
We found this great park at the end (beginning?) of La Ramblas, a large street with lots of: tourists, shops, street performers, and BIRDS! Elora and Oliver liked all the birds, but it was definitely Elora who had the most fun...
More Barcelona stories… We decided to go to the aquarium because there was a sign that said something like “you haven’t experienced Barcelona until you have seen L’Aquarium!” With advertising like...