finally in barcelona

Foreshore in Barcelona

(first time we seen the sea in two weeks)

Diving pool from the 92 Olyimpic´s
Yes its where Kylie Minogue made the film clip ¨Slow¨
Gaudi´s famous temple, still not finished til 2020.

After having huge amounts of trouble trying to get to Barcelona (computer says no!) we arrived on Thursday night by bus. The trains in Spain were on strike and this was made more difficult to try and book in France when they could not tell us why we could not get to Barcelona. They told us "Its impossible" and that was the reason we could not go. Once we got to a place called Narbonne
the lady who booked our bus ticket explained what was going on. She was really helpful.

Once in Barcelona we headed to the foreshore and had a good look around. Caught a cable car to the top of the hill on the other side of the bay where some of the events from the 1992 Olympics were held. We saw the famous pool where the diving was done and also the filming of the Kylie Minogue "Slow" film clip was filmed.

Caught the funicular down the side of the mountain and went to the famous cathedral that was designed and built by Gaudi and never finished. It is now being finished off and will take to 2020 to complete. The cathedral is amazing. We also got the Metro to Gaudi's other famous buildings, they too have the same unique styling as the cathedral.

Barcelona was a bit of a surprise how it seems to be so modern and well set out. A lot of building work happened for the Olympics and has obviously continued.