This morning we wandered down Ramblas again but this time with the intent of taking pictures. My photos do Barcelona no justice. There are flower shops with an amazing array of roses, orchids, hibiscus, palms and geraniums; pet shops with little striped mammals, birds and turtles’ performance artists of all sorts; scam artists abound and on a Saturday morning, an amazing amount of humanity swarming about.
Part-way down the Ramblas is a covered market, which hosts several hundred shops and stalls. It’s so big they gave us a map at the entrance. As the map was forced into my hand, I imagined some poor lost tourist skeleton in a dark corner still with his camera around his neck. We wandered around for a bit and bought some bread, coffee and a fruit salad. The market had the best biggest, freshest figs I’ve ever tasted and dates where still on the branch. We made our way down Ramblas to the waterfront. We watched the swing bridge in action. When we read about this bridge in the tour book, we imagined a rope bridge, but it a very beautiful, art inspired pedestrian bridge. A part of the walk way retracts to allow boats through. We found a cafe and sat outside to have breakfast while we waited to see the bridge retract.
We headed back to one of the five star Barcelona hotels where we were staying to take a siesta. Later that afternoon, we were determined to see the Sagrada Familia, it’s not far from our hotel, so off we went. It was created by Gaudi, and the structure in huge and gorgeous. There were throngs of tourists all waiting to go inside, seemed like it could take hours, so we took a few photos and wandered off to find lunch. Gaudi will just have to wait. Barcelona, you gotta love it here.
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