We got a taxi from the airport to our hotel …the Juliani Boutique Hotel on St. Julian’s Bay. Interesting thing….the taxi is not metered but you are charged a flat rate to the specific areas you are travelling to….and collected at the place of origin. Unfortunately the driver took us to the wrong hotel and we ended up walking and dragging our suitcases along the very narrow ( unlike Barcelona’s) to the correct one. The hotel was very lovely with a rooftop pool and deck that overlooks the bay…..nice! From the rooftop, Ron counted 30 hammerhead cranes…..amazing!
Las Rambla is a huge pedestrian walk in the middle, vehicles one lane on either side, 1 lane of parking on either side and the metro running under it. You can feel the vibrations and hear it a wee bit!
One if many flower stalks along La Rambla
Motorcycle parking spaces marked and all lined up in orderly fashion
Seen on the exterior of one building
Entrance to the Guell residence.. Gaudi designed
Scroll work on a Gaudi building for Guell family… just off La Rambla
How do you like the name of this restaurant?!!
Beautiful door just around the corner from our hotel……the bottom right of it is the man door. We were looking for the street that our room faces… couldn’t find it even thought we walked the entire block.
Central pedestrian walk along the waterfront marina
There is another view of the beautiful French styled building under renovations
One of the offered means of transportation
As seen on a building in the Palau del Mar area
Barceloneta Park tower
Exterior framework… cool!
Olympic Park… metal sculptures indicate the beaches of that area.
Diagonal-Mar
Besos Water tower that took 3 years to restore
Hop on Bus ..10/30 & 31/19

Some of these notes cover the second day of the hop-on bus and so you’ll not see the corresponding picture.
Wall on Paral-lel (street) is boundary of city built in 13th century
There are 7 beaches 5or 9kms long (depending on which line you’re on)… all area cleaned up in Poblenou area. Some are for wheel chair users
Besos water tower .. red brick tower took 3 yrs to restore.
Bullet-shaped building is Agbar tower
11,000 people live in housing of Olympic village built in 1992, was the start of change in the prosperity and urbanization infrastructure.
Barca stadium capacity is 100,000…. largest in Europe.
Summit ahead as we boarded the red line again,houses a cathedral … is 500.+ meters high.
Casa Batllo house by Gaudi next stop is one with blue porcelain tiles
Casa on right La Pedrera…also translate to pile of stones.
Pedestrian walkways in the middle of street also have trains underneath.
Former bull ring now a shopping centre.
Greater Barcelona has over 3 million inhabitants. The Palace Nationale was built in 1929. Mountjuic named because in time past, was home to Jewish cemetery and so named “Mount of Jews” …. has the largest cemetery of the area.
Maritime museum originally was the shipyards
Giant lobster in walkway.
Palau del Mar is old port warehouse ….now outside cafes specializing in 🦞 and other seafood.
1929 tradefair columns built … at entrance to Montjuic Park.
Telecommunications tower on side of Montjuic near Olympic stadium is the white modernist sculpture built for the 1992 Olympics.
We’ve had a couple of 16,000 plus step days…. oh my God!!! Even the other days have been right up there. We are certainly getting our excercise.
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