A glimpse of what the stained glass will look like |
Cranes everywhere |
Love the fruit and vegetable look on the spires |
Ditto |
As I said, they have no problem with rebar here |
And still a long way to go... |
...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
A glimpse of what the stained glass will look like |
Cranes everywhere |
Love the fruit and vegetable look on the spires |
Ditto |
As I said, they have no problem with rebar here |
And still a long way to go... |
The Barcelona Cathedral, which we skipped; it's hardly the main church in town |
Alley near the Picasso Museum |
The Picasso Museum has a no-pix policy; Vicki snapped this in protest; I didn't really think anything was worth photographing |
Old city walls and portal, part Roman |
Incredible inverted ceiling dome |
Even the coffee shoppe wasn't bad looking |
Interior |
Exterior view, facade; the building is so hemmed-in, you can't see much of it from the outside |
More exterior |
Plus, they treat Wagner very well |
Anyhow, work continues through the night |
Note tree and doves above the doors |
All-day and -night tourism requires massive infusions of hot choclate and churros |
Barcelona, from the summit of Park Guell |
Approaching the park terrace |
Gaudi park benches |
Vicki on one of the benches |
Detail |
More of the park |
Grill work at the entrance |
In the market area; the columns only look perpendicular |
Guadian reptile |
From the entrance to the terrace |
La Pedrera, frontal view |
Looking up from the entry |
In the foyer |
There is a furnished apartment on the 5th floor, part of the museum, all done up in Modernista, that is, art nouveau, incredibly beautiful stuff |
Roof ornamentation |
Closer up |
More roof ornmentation; as we'll see, much of his work involves broken tile--they can be set in curves that unbroken tiles cannot |
Gaudi chimneys |
From the roof, a mile or so away, the Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's church, which we'll see a lot more of... |
And the Torre Agbar, which is 20th century, not Gaudi, but fits Barcelona just as well |
Interior structural support for the roof |
Pedrera by night |
On the Block of Discord
|
We had our picnic lunch (ask me about goose mousse) on
a sidewalk bench right here, listening to various professors lecture to their classes (and in English, too) |
Barcelona book award sculpture?
|
Advertising on the Block of Discord, well, across from it
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Beautiful grill-work everywhere; a lamp post on the Passeig
de Gracia |
Casa de Batlla at night (we had to go back and see all these
things lit up) |