A view up Las Ramblas from the Christopher Colombus tower in the late
afternoon sun. Our hotel is
not visible, but is at the top of this picture, to the right in the Gothic
Quarter.
A view up Las Ramblas from the Christopher Colombus tower in the late
afternoon sun. Our hotel is
not visible, but is at the top of this picture, to the right in the Gothic
Quarter.
Another view from the same location, this time of a church at the end
of a boulevard. Speaking of boulevards... The street signs in Barcelona
suck. If they are present, they are on the buildings, not on the street
corners, and they're not guaranteed to be on the buildings. It makes
street names very hard to spot when you're driving. But it gets better!
In the newer sections of Barcelona, all of the intersections have the
corners "cut off" of them, opening up the intersections and turning them
into a octogonal shape. Now all of what I said above still applies,
but the signs are out of sight of the intersection, where a driver
crossing a street has absolutely no chance of seeing them. Obviously
I enjoyed driving in Barcelona.